Why does isDot() fail on me? (PHP)

Question

I\'m finalizing a code segment that lists the files in a directory. I have no problems listing the files in a directory but for some reason I can get the isDot() method to work

Answer 1

This is, because DirectoryIterator::current() (the method, that is call within a foreach-loop) returns an object, which is itself of type DirectoryIterator. FileSystemIterator (that RecursiveDirectoryIterator extends) returns an object of SplFileInfo be default. You can influence, what is return, via flags

$files = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
  new RecursiveDirectoryIterator(
    $pathToFolder,
    FilesystemIterator::KEY_AS_PATHNAME | FilesystemIterator::CURRENT_AS_SELF));

But in your case, you don't need to test, if an item is a dot-file. Just set FilesystemIterator::SKIP_DOTS and they will not appear at all. Note, that this is also the default behavior.