closedir

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7, PHP 8)

closedir — Close directory handle

Description

closedir(? resource $dir_handle = null ): void

Closes the directory stream indicated by dir_handle. The stream must have previously been opened by opendir() .

Parameters

dir_handle: The directory handle resource previously opened with opendir() . If the directory handle is not specified, the last link opened by opendir() is assumed.

Return Values

No value is returned.

Examples

Example #1 closedir() example

<?php
$dir = "/etc/php5/";

// Open a known directory, read directory into variable and then close
if (is_dir($dir)) {
 if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
 $directory = readdir($dh);
 closedir($dh);
 }
}
?>

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