----- PHP Source code -----
<?php
                     $handle=opendir('.');
                     echo "Directory handle: $handle\n";
                     echo "Files:\n";
                     while ($file = readdir($handle)) {
                         echo "$file\n";
                     }
                     closedir($handle); 
                     ?>

----- PHP configure command ------
'./configure' '--with-apache=/usr/local/src/apache_1.3.12/' '--with-ttf' '--with-gd=/usr/local/'
                                      '--with-pdflib=/usr/local' '--with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql/' '--with-zlib' '--with-jpeg-dir=/usr/'
                                      '--with-tiff-dir=/usr/' '--disable-debug'

Description:

the first time that I execute the code, all it's OK, but the second, the third etc... the function opendir doesn't return the list of the files of the directory.

I have checked the permission of the directories and the files, but the function doesn't return the expected value.