processing entire folder

doobster

Hello,

I am wondering how to accomplish the following.

I have a folder stored locally on my harddrive.

I want to create a PHP script that will take the folder location and rename and upload every single jpeg in that folder and do some database stuff.

The only code I need is the part to process the entire folder.

Example would be. In the folder C:\images\thumbnails\ I want the script to take every image in that folder and upload and rename it and insert some information in a database.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

epp_b

If this folder contains other files (not just images), you should start with a regex pattern to chuck out all of the non-image files:

if (ereg(".jp[e|eg|g]$", $theFile)) {
     // do the uploading
}

About accessing the local folder, that's difficult (maybe impossible) to do automatically (however, don't take my word for it as I do not have experience automating uploads with PHP).

However, take a look at http://ca3.php.net/features.file-upload . You might find something you can use there.

The_Chancer

I am pretty sure that this is impossible, unless you run the script on your own machine, and make it act like a server.

Javascript cannot access your files as this is a security issue, and PHP can't access your local files. (again a security issue) - apart from that it is a preprocessor, so you only get the the HTML, not something that can do the actual work....

doobster

If I cant do it with a folder on my harddrive can i do it with a folder on my webserver?

if so how would i do it?

epp_b

If all you need to do is copy all of the files from one directory on a webserver to another (on the SAME webserver), then it's simple:

// open directory
$dir = opendir("dir_with_images");

// loop through the directory while reading it's contents
while ($file = readdir($dir)) {
     // if the current file in the loop is a JPEG image, then copy it to the destination directory
     if (ereg("jp[e|eg|g]$", $file)) {
           copy($file, "distination_dir/" . $file);
     }
}

Just make sure the destination directory has the proper permissions (must be owned by HTTPD under Apache)

doobster

thats epp_b i think that will work.

all i really didnt know how to do was read through an entire directory.

thanks.