How can recursion be used effectively in PHP functions to handle nested directories?

When dealing with nested directories in PHP, recursion can be used effectively to traverse through all levels of directories and files within them. By using a recursive function, you can iterate through each directory, check if it contains subdirectories, and continue to recursively call the function on those subdirectories until all files are processed. 

function processDirectory($dir){
    $files = scandir($dir);
    
    foreach($files as $file){
        if ($file != '.' && $file != '..'){
            if(is_dir($dir.'/'.$file)){
                processDirectory($dir.'/'.$file);
            } else {
                // Process the file here
                echo $dir.'/'.$file . "\n";
            }
        }
    }
}

// Start processing from the root directory
processDirectory('/path/to/root/directory');

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Recursion PHP functions nested directories file system directory traversal

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