Scandir Retrurning No Directory Found

[Grazza]

I made a simple little code to scan a directory of .doc files and then put all of the information into an sql database but scandir() keeps failing claming the directory doesn't exist.

 

Code is as follows (only the boring sql connection clipped off):

$directory = "aa/";

$date = date("m.d.y");

 

$files = scandir('$directory');

foreach($files as $file) {

$fh = fopen($file, 'r');

$content = fread($fh, filesize($file));

fclose($fh);

 

mysql_query("INSERT INTO database (`filename`,`date`,`directory`,`content`) VALUES ('$file','$date','aa','$content')");

}

 

The folder aa is in the same folder as I am running the script from, I have tried using the full path from root with the same results.

 

Error as shown: Warning: scandir($directory): failed to open dir: No such file or directory

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

[jazzman1]

Rid single quotes of surround $directory.

[Grazza]

Wow such a silly mistake, works now thanks for the help