After upgrading App Engine from PHP 5.5 tot 7.2/7.3 "glob()" no longer works, any way to get it to work?

[Mike Hergaarden]

After upgrading App Engine from the PHP 5.5 runtime to PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3 the PHP function glob (https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php) no longer works and this is a big problem for our systems.

We used to search in the Cloud Storage files a lot, glob was very quick, but using the Google Cloud Storage PHP API directly only gives my a prefix to filter fields and yields much slower searches (resulting in timeouts).

Is there any way to get glob() working on App Engine PHP 7.3?

[Elliott (Cloud Platform Support)]

Hello Mike,

Can you include an example of how you used glob() in your previous code? Maybe a member of this group can offer an alternative.