• array
• directory
• EN
• PHP
• regex

here are different ways to read a directory with php.

current level

using array_diff & scandir: read /var/www/Foo/ and ignore .dot files

$aContent = array_diff(scandir ('/var/www/Foo/'), array('..', '.', '.htaccess', '.htpasswd'));

using preg_grep & scandir: read /var/www/Foo/

$aContent = […]

• EN
• imagemagick
• Linux
• PHP
• shell
• xampp

Problem with XAMPP: php's shell_exec() executing imagemagick's /bin/convert command does not convert a PNG image. There is always a message saying a lib could not be found although library is there. No such problems with JPG images, only PNG.

This is a xampp related problem.

SOLUTION

as root:

cd /opt/lampp/lib; 
mv libz.so.1 libz.so.1.orig; 
ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 […]