Method to recursively search for a file in directory and subdirectories doesn't find the file

I believe that return $this->findFileInPathRecursive($file_to_find, $new_path); will cause an early return when the first subfolder does not contains the file.

You can avoid by only returning when the file is found.

if($found = $this->findFileInPathRecursive($file_to_find, $new_path)) {     return $found; } 

      public function findFileInPathRecursive($file_to_find, $path) {          if (substr($path, -1) != "/") $path .= "/"; // Add slash at path's end          $files = scandir($path);          foreach($files as $file) {              if (substr($file, 0, 1) == ".") continue; // skip if "." or ".."              if (is_dir($path.$file)) { // if "file" is a directory, call self with the new path                  $new_path = $path.$file;                  // We only want to return file                  if($found = $this->findFileInPathRecursive($file_to_find, $new_path)) {                     return $found;                 }              }             else {                  if (pathinfo($file)['basename'] == $file_to_find OR pathinfo($file)['filename'] == $file_to_find) {                                          return $path.$file;                  }              }          }          return false;         }  

   * Search recusively for files in a base directory matching a glob pattern.    * The `GLOB_NOCHECK` flag has no effect.    * @param  string $base Directory to search    * @param  string $pattern Glob pattern to match files    * @param  int $flags Glob flags from https://www.php.net/manual/function.glob.php    * @return string[] Array of files matching the pattern                        function glob_recursive($base, $pattern, $flags = 0) {             $flags = $flags & ~GLOB_NOCHECK;                 if (substr($base, -1) !== DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR) {                 $base .= DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR;             }             $files = glob($base.$pattern, $flags);             if (!is_array($files)) {                 $files = [];             }             $dirs = glob($base.'*', GLOB_ONLYDIR|GLOB_NOSORT|GLOB_MARK);             if (!is_array($dirs)) {                 return $files;             }                foreach ($dirs as $dir) {                 $dirFiles = glob_recursive($dir, $pattern, $flags);                 $files = array_merge($files, $dirFiles);             }             return $files;         }                  $files = glob($base.$pattern, $flags);         $files = $files !== false ? $files : [];