By default Directory Lister will look for a .hidden file in the app root directory (the same place as index.php). If found, each line of this file will be used as an ignore pattern. Each line should contain a single file or path pattern with no end-of-line delimiter.

Ignore Patterns

An ignore pattern is a path to a file or folder that may contain one or more of the following special expressions. A pattern matching a folder path will cause all files and folders within that folder to be hidden as well as the folder itself.

Matching Expressions

• ? matches any single character

• * matches zero or more characters excluding /

• ** matches zero or more characters including /

• [abc] matches a single character from the set (i.e. a, b or c)

• [a-c] matches a single character in the range (i.e. a, b or c)

• [^abc] matches any character not in the set (i.e. not a, b or c)

• [^a-c] matches any character not in the range (i.e. not a, b or c)

• {foo,bar,baz} matches any pattern in the set (i.e. foo, bar or baz)

Assertions

The following assertions can be use to assert that a path is followed by or not followed by another pattern.

• (=foo) matches any file name that also contains foo

• (!foo) matches any file name that does not also contain foo

Examples

foo Match the literal file or folder foo in the root folder

foo/bar Matches the literal file or folder bar in the foo folder

*.txt Matches any file or folder ending with .txt in the root folder

**/*.txt Matches any file or folder ending with .txt one or more folders deep (e.g. foo/bar.txt or foo/bar/baz.txt)

**.txt Matches any file or folder ending with .txt (e.g. foo.txt, foo/bar.txt, foo/bar/baz.txt, etc.)

foo/bar/*.txt Matches all .txt files or folders in the foo/bar folder

foo/bar/**.txt Matches all .txt files or folders in the foo/bar folder and sub-folders

file.{yml,yaml} Matches a file or folder named file.yml or file.yaml in the root folder

file.tar(!.{gz,xz}) Matches a file named file.tar or file.tar.bz but not file.tar.gz or file.tar.xz