help a newbie

[Anon]

Hi all, Im wanting to make a 'picture of the week' script, kind of like this..

There will be a form that has a text area and a combo box

What Im wanting to do is have a loop go through all of /images/POW and put every file that ends in THUMB.jpg (thumbnail) into the box.

Ive never made a loop, but I do know how to tell if the end is THUMB.jpg using
if (substr("the loop returns something here",-9) == "THUMB.jpg") {
.. put it to the combo box
}

But I have looked for something like findfile() or so, but Im having no luck.

Any help would be appreciated, and sorry for all the questions, Im trying to find the anwsers before I post 😐

[Anon]

You need to be looking at the directory functions. Here's an example of how to read a directory and load all the file names into an array. But, if you've never made a loop then you should learn the basics first. Then modify the below code to only load the array if the file name meets your condition. Once you have the names in the array you have to write another loop to cycle through the array to populate the form field.

$thumbs_dir = "./thumbs";
$handle = opendir($thumbs_dir);
while (($file = readdir($handle)) != '') {
if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
thumbs_array[] = $file;
}
}
closedir($handle);
sort($thumbs_array);
reset($thumbs_array);