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Bug #49755 iterator_to_array nukes DirectoryIterator
Submitted: 2009-10-02 19:02 UTC Modified: 2009-10-06 13:50 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:4.2 ± 0.9
Reproduced:6 of 6 (100.0%)
Same Version:1 (16.7%)
Same OS:2 (33.3%)
From: salathe@php.net Assigned: colder (profile)
Status: Wont fix Package: SPL related
PHP Version: 5.3.0 OS: OS X
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
 [2009-10-02 19:02 UTC] salathe@php.net
Description:
------------
When converting a DirectoryIterator instance into an array using iterator_to_array, the array items appear to be converted to basic DirectoryIterator instances with none of the file information intact. The same does not appear to occur for other related classes (FilesystemIterator, RecursiveDirectoryIterator).

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

echo "DirectoryIterator:\n";
$dit = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__));
$ait = iterator_to_array($dit);
foreach ($ait as $file) {
	var_dump($file->getFilename());
}

echo "RecursiveDirectoryIterator:\n";
$rdit = new RecursiveDirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__));
$ait = iterator_to_array($rdit);
foreach ($ait as $file) {
	var_dump($file->getFilename());
}

?>

Expected result:
----------------
DirectoryIterator:
string(1) "."
string(2) ".."
string(7) "bug.php"
RecursiveDirectoryIterator:
string(7) "bug.php"


Actual result:
--------------
DirectoryIterator:
string(0) ""
string(0) ""
string(0) ""
RecursiveDirectoryIterator:
string(7) "bug.php"


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 [2009-10-02 21:09 UTC] fa@php.net
Not 5.3.0 only, also reproducable on a
"PHP 5.2.6-1+lenny3 with Suhosin-Patch 0.9.6.2"
 [2009-10-06 13:50 UTC] colder@php.net
This is, sadly, expected. DirectoryIterator is a weird iterator, first of all, it implements SplFileInfo, and, instead of returning new instances of SplFileInfo on current(), it returns itself.

So, if you store each value in an array, they will all be the same DirectoryIterator object, pointing to beyond the last element. The only solution is to clone it while puting it in an array, but iterator_to_array doesn't clone (and shouldn't clone).

You can similarly reproduce it with:

$dit = new DirectoryIterator(dirname(__FILE__));
$arr = array();
foreach ($ait as $file) {
    $arr[] = $file;
}

foreach($arr as $file) {
    var_dump($file->getFileName());
}


 [2014-01-11 10:17 UTC] dr dot dimitru at gmail dot com
Reproduced on Debian (Jessie) | PHP 5.5.7-2
 [2015-09-09 23:27 UTC] kevin dot waterson at gmail dot com
Reproduced with PHP 5.5.9-1ubuntu4.11 (cli) (built: Jul  2 2015 15:23:08)

<?php

        $iterator = new directoryIterator('./');
        $array =  iterator_to_array( $iterator, false );
        rsort( $array );
        print_r( $array );
?>

Produces an array of DirectoryIterators
php arr.php 
Array
(
    [0] => DirectoryIterator Object
        (
            [pathName:SplFileInfo:private] => 
            [glob:DirectoryIterator:private] => 
            [subPathName:RecursiveDirectoryIterator:private] => 
        )

    [1] => DirectoryIterator Object
        (
            [pathName:SplFileInfo:private] => 
            [glob:DirectoryIterator:private] => 
            [subPathName:RecursiveDirectoryIterator:private] => 
        )
 
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