Php/docs/directoryiterator.tostring

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• Get file name as a string

DirectoryIterator::__toString

(PHP 5, PHP 7)

DirectoryIterator::__toString — Get file name as a string

Description

public DirectoryIterator::__toString ( ) : string

Get the file name of the current DirectoryIterator item.

Parameters

This function has no parameters.

Return Values

Returns the file name of the current DirectoryIterator item.

Examples

Example #1 A DirectoryIterator::__toString() example

This example will list the contents of the directory containing the script.

<?php$dir = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__));foreach ($dir as $fileinfo) {    echo $fileinfo;}?>

The above example will output something similar to:

.
..
apple.jpg
banana.jpg
index.php
pear.jpg

See Also

• DirectoryIterator::getFilename() - Return file name of current DirectoryIterator item
• The __toString() magic method