[RESOLVED] Is there an easier way to get a list of jpg or JPS in a directory than this?

[Joseph_Sliker]

Hi;

I'm just trying to get a filtered list of .jpg (or .JPG) filenames. This is all I could come up with. Is there an easier way?

<?php 
//filter the pictures based on the whatever value you pass into filter
$FILTER="picturesetname*";
//on  a linux server now...so case matters.
$JPGs=glob($FILTER.'JPG');
$jpgs=glob($FILTER.'jpg');
//if I try to feed an empty array (either no .jpg files or no .JPG files, the array_merge() will fail so have to if/elseif/else through it...
if ($jpgs!="" and $JPGs!="") {$filenames = array_merge($jpgs, $JPGs);}
elseif ($jpgs!="") {$filenames = $jpgs;}
elseif ($JPGs!="") {$filenames = $JPGs;}
else {}
//sort the filenames...hopefully I named them in the order I want to show them.
sort($filenames);

//show the pictures in a table
echo "<table>";
foreach ($filenames as $value) 
{echo "<tr><td align=center colspan=2><img src=\"$value\" style=\"border: 2px double #F5ECCB; padding: 2\" WIDTH=600></td></tr>"; } 
echo "</table><br>";
?> 

[NogDog]

You could use the GLOB_BRACE option to get them in one glob() call:

$jpegs = glob('*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG}', GLOB_BRACE);

[Joseph_Sliker]

//filter the pictures based on the whatever value you pass into filter
$FILTER="picturesetname";
$filenames = glob($FILTER."*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG}", GLOB_BRACE);  

//sort the filenames...hopefully I named them in the order I want to show them.
sort($filenames);

//show the pictures in a table
echo "<table>";
foreach ($filenames as $value) 
{echo "<tr><td align=center colspan=2><img src=\"$value\" style=\"border: 2px double #F5ECCB; padding: 2\" WIDTH=600></td></tr>"; } 
echo "</table><br>";

[Weedpacket]

Using a consistent extension could help, too 🙂

[Joseph_Sliker]

You bring up a good point, Weed', but I have a motley crew of contributors who are unlikely to be careful about such things and I won't be spending my time going in an manually editing file extensions. BUT, now you have me wondering if there is an easy way to automate renaming, say ".jpg" to ".JPG" when the files are uploaded?

[leatherback]

I upose you could use [man]strtolower[/man] on the filenames

[Weedpacket]

leatherback wrote:

I upose you could use [man]strtolower[/man] on the filenames

Since you need to specify a name for the file when processing the upload, this would be the best time to decide just what name you want to specify.

[leatherback]

Weedpacket wrote:

Since you need to specify a name for the file when processing the upload, this would be the best time to decide just what name you want to specify.

Obviously. I was working under the assumption that the original filename had to be re-used. Hm. What was it again with Ass u me?