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laravel storage hidden directories/files

I'm using Laravel to gather directories from a drive using Storage::disk()->directories();. But I can see that it gathers all the hidden files as well, I'm using Windows so there is a few hidden folders i don't want it to gather. Is there a option or configuration to easily remove them? Or would I have to specify each item I don't want in the array and remove them one by one?

The ones I don't want to see in the array are things like: System Volume Information or $Recycle.bin etc..

Solution

  • You can use array filter to remove those that you don't want.

    Something like that

    $directories = array_filter(Storage::disk()->directories(), function ($directory) {
    return !in_array($directory, ['System Volume Information', '$Recycle.bin']);
});

    If you want a list of basic files that you may want to escape, you can take a look at that https://www.gitignore.io/api/windows