Timeline for answer to How can I use PHP to check if a directory is empty? by André Fiedler

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Apr 9, 2019 at 16:52	comment	added	Ashish Doneriya		@AndréFiedler You are a genius, brilliant and responsible person. In all other answers, they first calculating total number of files and then checking if count > 0. But if a directory contains even one file, it is not empty.
Nov 20, 2018 at 17:49	comment	added	soger		What I don't understand is why you say that it is better to use strict comparision when comparing to "." and "..". The readdir() function will always return a string (or the false) so I don't see the point. I'd also like to add that cleaning up after yourself is indeed always a good idea, one would think that after return when the $handle variable goes out of scope, closedir() would happen automatically but I just wrote a little test program, and it doesn't. Which is strange because other stuff, like flock do happen automatically.
Sep 28, 2016 at 6:37	comment	added	André Fiedler		@BeatChristen Thx for the hint! Fixed it.
Sep 28, 2016 at 6:37	history	edited	André Fiedler	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 81 characters in body
Sep 27, 2016 at 13:02	comment	added	Beat Christen		Good point regarding clean up: The `return false` case is not taking care of it ;-)
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Aug 30, 2013 at 8:11	history	answered	André Fiedler	CC BY-SA 3.0