Admin Settings and readdir() with ereg()

[bsmither]

Just installed PHP 5.3.3 (I did not take note when using lesser versions) and found unwanted entries in dropdowns that are created from the readdir() function. The dropdowns that use readdir() results are found in ten files. Some of the dropdowns are anything that selects a language or skin. Listing module folder names seems to work fine.

I believe the actual problem lies with ereg(), which is deprecated as of 5.3.0. In addition to the deprecated notices, I also get (never saw these before):

Warning: eregi() expects parameter 2 to be string, array given.

If the warning comes because of this:

if(!eregi($file,array(".",".."))){

maybe the warning causes the function to return FALSE (or at least not true).

From PHP.NET:

"Note: If the parameters given to a function are not what it expects, such as passing an array where a string is expected, the return value of the function is undefined. In this case it will likely return NULL but this is just a convention, and cannot be relied upon."