How to ask PHP to find filename that contains something

Question

im trying to do this :

$filename = "/destination/destination2/file_*";

" * " = anything

destination2 files :

file_somethingrandom

and since it $filename contains * so it should be selecting file_somethingrandom

how to do it?

Answer 1

Use the glob() function like this:

$filename = "/destination/destination2/file_*";
foreach (glob($filename) as $filefound)
{
    echo "$filefound size " . filesize($filefound) . "\n";
}

Answer 2

Try this

foreach (glob("/destination/destination2/file_*") as $filename) {
    echo $filename;
}

Cheers!