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closedir

(PHP 4, PHP 5, PHP 7)

closedir — Close directory handle

Description

closedir ([ resource $dir_handle ] ) : 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.

Examples

Example #1 closedir() example

<?php$dir = "/etc/php5/";// Open a known directory, read directory into variable and then closeif (is_dir($dir)) {    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {        $directory = readdir($dh);        closedir($dh);    }}?>