Checking number of files in a folder

[Moshambi]

I want to load images dynamically from a folder. Since I don't know how many images are in the folder I was wondering if there was a way to check that folder for the number of files so that I could then write a for loop to display them.

[techietim]

You can grab all the jpg images in an array by calling:

$images = glob('./dir/*.jpg'); 

Then if you still needed to count them:

$imgcount = count($images); 

[james438]

List all of the images in a folder:

<?php
$imgdir = 'images'; // the directory, where your images are stored
$allowed_types = array('png','jpg','jpeg','gif','bmp'); // list of filetypes you want to show
$dimg = opendir($imgdir);
while($imgfile = readdir($dimg))
{
if(in_array(strtolower(substr($imgfile,-3)),$allowed_types))
{
  $a_img[] = $imgfile;
  sort($a_img);
  reset ($a_img);
} 
}
$totimg = count($a_img); // total image number
for($x=0; $x < $totimg; $x++)
{
$size = getimagesize($imgdir.'/'.$a_img[$x]);
// do whatever
$halfwidth = ceil($size[0]/2);
$halfheight = ceil($size[1]/2);
echo 'name: '.$a_img[$x].' width: '.$size[0].' height: '.$size[1].'<br />';
}
?>

I also use a script from this site for a gallery http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamici...photoalbum.htm

[Moshambi]

so then if I want to display them I would do it like this?

<?php
$images = glob('./dir/*.jpg');

for($i = 0; $i < $images-1; $i++)
{
echo "<img src='" . $images[$i] . "' />";
?>

would this work...sorry I cannot test it at this time so I'm just trying to figure if that would work when I get home later...

[techietim]

@james

That seems like a lot of fluff to do such an easy task. (you also have some errors in it)

@mosh

<?php
$images = glob('./dir/*.jpg');
foreach($images as $img)
  echo "<img src='" . $img . "' />";
?>

[james438]

true, I have not completely debugged it yet, but why would you want to only display jpeg files?

here is a more watered down version if you prefer, with the bugs removed . I wasn't able to figure out how to sort it in a case insensitive way yet though.

<?php 
$imgdir = 'images';
$allowed_types = array('png','jpg','peg','gif','bmp');
$dimg = opendir($imgdir); 
while($imgfile = readdir($dimg)) 
{
if(in_array(strtolower(substr($imgfile,-3)),$allowed_types)) 
{ 
  $a_img[] = $imgfile; 
}  
}
sort($a_img); 
$totimg = count($a_img);
for($x=0; $x < $totimg;) 
{
echo "$a_img[$x]<br>";
$x++; 
} 
?>

[Moshambi]

Thank you so much techietim that worked wonders!

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