What exactly are the benefits of using a PHP 5 DirectoryIterator over PHP 4 “opendir/readdir/closedir”?

Question

What exactly are the benefits of using a PHP 5 DirectoryIterator

$dir = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__));
foreach ($dir as $fileinfo) 
{
    // handle wh         


        

Answer 1

It's shorter, cleaner and easier to type and read.

Try re-read your examples. Just “for each in $dir” in first example.

What you want, that you write…