PHP Scandir error

[Wes.]

I am trying to use scandir to find files and folders in a directory. The directory containing the code is 'mobile' while the directory containing the sub directories to be scanned is called 'downloads', they are both inside another directory called 'BOLDzBRASS' which is in the root directory.
So we have 'BOLDzBRASS/mobile' (containing my webpage file) and 'BOLDzBRASS/downloads'.
If I use "scandir('downloads')" from within the 'mobile' directory it fails with the error "failed to open dir: No such file or directory ", BUT if I move my file out of 'mobile' and into the 'BOLDzBRASS' directory it works perfectly!
I have tried various variations like "scandir('www.fmtest.info/BOLDzBRASS/downloads')" or "scandir('/public_html/BOLDzBRASS/downloads')" but with no success.
I would really like to have my file in the 'mobile' directory with all the mobile web pages just to keep things tidy. Can anyone throw any light on this?

 

[Mutiny]

From within the "mobile" directory, try this:

scandir("../downloads");

The ../ means go up one directory.

 

[Wes.]

From within the "mobile" directory, try this:

scandir("../downloads");

The ../ means go up one directory.

Thanks for your reply. I have already tried that, along with a number of other suggestions I have found with a Google search. None of them work, thats what is so baffling about this, scandir just doesnt want to go back one directory for some reason. At the moment I have moved the file to the 'BOLDzBRASS' directory, from which it works perfectly well, but I would like to have it in 'mobile' for the sake of tidyness, but if it has to be it has to be. I just wondered if anyone on here had come up against the same thing, or had done the same thing successfully.