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closedir

(PHP 4, PHP 5)

closedirClose directory handle

Description

void closedir ([ resource $dir_handle ] )

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 close
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if (
$dh opendir($dir)) {
        
$directory readdir($dh);
        
closedir($dh);
    }
}
?>


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