recursive directory search

[Liquid Fire]

I have built a framework and right now am trying to find any type of speed issue/bottleneck and think i found my big one.  I have a recursive directory search function

 

<?php
function check_for_file($directory, $file_name)
{
//get the directory handle
$directory_handle = opendir($directory);

while($resource = readdir($directory_handle))
{
	//make sure it is not a dotted directory
	if(!is_dot($resource))
	{
		if(is_dir($directory . '/' . $resource))
		{
			//we need to call ourself if this is a directory
			$search_result = check_for_file($directory . '/' . $resource, $file_name);

			if($search_result !== false )
			{
				return $search_result;
			}
		}
		else
		{
			//let check to see if this is the file
			if(file_exists($directory . '/' . $file_name))
			{
				return $directory . '/' . $file_name;
			}
		}
	}
}

return false;
}
?>

 

now in there are 6 folders and about 35-40 files to search and out of the total .56 second it takes to load the data from my framework, .40 is taken up inside this function.  does anyone see where i can optimise my code?

[Liquid Fire]

why can't i edit my post?

 

anyways, also if there is a better way to do the auto load where i don't have to worry about put every directory in class file paths and still allows me to organize my files into a clean directory structure.

[Liquid Fire]

anyone?