I found myself working with text files a little more recently and was looking for a way to tell if a directory was empty. Why? In my case I wanted to check if a directory was empty. If it wasn’t, to grab the data in those files and put them in a database.

What I didn’t want to do was have the expense of connecting to a database if the directory didn’t have any files in it to begin with. After chatting with my good friend TDavid at php-scripts.com, I decide to run with his suggestion…

Fill (or don’t fill) a variable with information if there were files in the directory. Then test the var to confirm or deny if there are files in the directory. It’s really a small bit of code…

//----- Check if ticket dir has files. If it has files,
// set a variable to hold the list of file names.
 
$dir = "../path/to/my/textfiles";      // set directory
 
if($handle = opendir($dir)){           // open directory
 
	while(($file = readdir($handle)) !== false){
		if($file != "." && $file != ".."){
			$file_list[] = $file;  // Set file list variable
		}
 
	}
 
	closedir($handle);      // Close directory
}

If there are files in this directory, the variable $file_list would not only exist, but also contain files. For example…

Array
(
    [0] => 195972.txt
    [1] => 196027.txt
    [2] => 196053.txt
    [3] => 196067.txt...
)

If there aren’t any files in this directory, the variable $file_list would not even exist because no $file would be inserted into it. At this point we can check/ test the variable to output or do further processing…

if(isset($file_list)){
    echo "This dir has files!";
    // perform further processing
    // eg: collect each files contents
} else {
    echo "This dir has NO files!";
    // stop processing
    // Not much do do with this since there are no files
}

Of course there are a few ways of checking to see if a directory is empty, but this way seemed to be the most simplistic to me. If you wanted to you could turn the entire lot into a function for reuse, and less script code clutter.

Comments? Questions?

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