PHP most efficient way to list the files in a very large directory [duplicate]

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I have a directory with tens of thousands of files in it and I want to display a list of these files on a page. I tried doing it with scandir and it takes forever. What would be an efficient method of achieving this?

Answer 1

I recommend using DirectoryIterator or RecursiveDirectoryIterator.