How to read a list of files from a folder using PHP?

There is this function scandir():

$dir = 'dir';
$files = scandir($dir, 0);
for($i = 2; $i < count($files); $i++)
    print $files[$i]."<br>";

More here in the php.net manual

This is what I like to do:

$files = array_values(array_filter(scandir($path), function($file) use ($path) { 
    return !is_dir($path . '/' . $file);
}));

foreach($files as $file){
    echo $file;
}

The simplest and most fun way (imo) is glob

foreach (glob("*.*") as $filename) {
    echo $filename."<br />";
}

But the standard way is to use the directory functions.

if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            echo "filename: .".$file."<br />";
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}

There are also the SPL DirectoryIterator methods. If you are interested

If you have problems with accessing to the path, maybe you need to put this:

$root = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'];
$path = "/cv/"; 

// Open the folder
 $dir_handle = @opendir($root . $path) or die("Unable to open $path");