Try passing GLOB_NOCHECK as flag too, it should return the actual pattern used then when it doesn't find any files.

I added BLOG_NOCHECK and found that I needed to update my first test (it was missing a directory seperator...but even after fixing that, it still fails. Here are the updated tests and results.

Reproduce code:
---------------
<?php

$paths = '{c:/globtest/firstfolder/,c:/globtest/secondfolder/}';
$ext = '*.png';
print_r(get_files($paths,$ext));

$paths = 'c:/globtest/';
$ext = '{firstfolder/*.png,secondfolder/*.png}';
print_r(get_files($paths,$ext));

function get_files($paths, $ext) {
    return glob($paths.$ext,GLOB_BRACE+GLOB_NOCHECK);
}

?>

Actual result:
--------------
Array
(
    [0] => c:/globtest/firstfolder/*.png
    [1] => c:/globtest/secondfolder/*.png
)
Array
(
    [0] => c:/globtest/firstfolder/arrow_down.png
    [1] => c:/globtest/firstfolder/arrow_off.png
    [2] => c:/globtest/firstfolder/arrow_up.png
    [3] => c:/globtest/secondfolder/arrow_down.png
    [4] => c:/globtest/secondfolder/arrow_off.png
    [5] => c:/globtest/secondfolder/arrow_up.png
)

The pattern looks correct! Even if I use 'arrow_off.png' instead of '*.png' for $ext, glob() fails. It seems like the colon breaks it, for some reason...

From my previous comment: "I added BLOG_NOCHECK and found"...

- I mean GLOB_NOCHECK, of course =)

It seems to be a problem with PHP thread-safe. With PHP-NTS that is provided from 5.2.1 and on it seems to work as expected. Apparently the thread-safety version (which is what common in windows) of glob has a problem with pattern that begins with '{'.

I have confirmed that the nts version works as expected.

I still believe that the issue is caused by the colon ':' in the pattern portion of the glob call. For example, the following is still problematic in the non-nts version:

<?php

$paths = 'c{:/globtest/firstfolder/,:/globtest/secondfolder/}';
$ext = '*.png';
print_r(get_files($paths,$ext));

$paths = 'c:/globtest/';
$ext = '{firstfolder/*.png,secondfolder/*.png}';
print_r(get_files($paths,$ext));

function get_files($paths, $ext) {
    return glob($paths.$ext,GLOB_BRACE);
}

?>

Notice, I moved the drive letter out of the pattern, so the pattern does not start with a '{'. It works as expected in the nts version.

Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5.2-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:

  http://windows.php.net/snapshots/

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