search files in directory using php

Question

i have a situation,i am creating a folder everytime when new user register.the folder name is equal to username.so therefore user_data folder contains all folder which name is equal to username. when user upload something then it directly save to its desired username folder.

so now i want to search perticular file from these folder. i know that, that particular file save in user_data folder but i dont know in user_data foder which folder contain that file. so what will be the code for searching file in directory.

Answer 1

take a look at RecursiveDirectoryIterator combine it with strstr or preg_match

Answer 2

glob() should do the trick.. here's an example of it's usage.. hope it helps:

$filenames = glob('user_data\'. $username . '\*.jpg');
foreach ($filenames as $filename) {
    echo $filename ."\n";
}