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scandir points to disk root

I recently moved some display logic from raw output into a class and I've found rather strange behavior.

The old code:

$foo = scandir('\css');

Behavior: as expected, got me results from the \css folder in my web root.

However, I am making a themes class and so I wanted to roll all that into a function

class someClass {
    public function getCSS() {
       $foo = scandir('\css');
    }
}

That same code now generates an error, "The system cannot find the file specified. (code: 2) ". To test what was going on, I did the following:

print_r(scandir('/'));

Which gave me the directory listing for C:\, not my webroot. What is going on? I am using the latest verion of WAMP, and PHP 5.4.3

Solution

  • So apparently I can't spell. As @arkascha mentioned

    $foo = scandir('\css');

    should not be relative to my web root, the actual code was 

    $foo = scandir('css\');

    which works as expected, obviously