Using arrays with file_exists

[markvwald]

hi all,
i have a set of numbered image filenames (ie. image1.jpg, image2.jpg, image3.jpg, ...).
i want to use a php loop or 'for each' to check to see whether or not a given file exists, and if it does, then run some html. so far, this is what i have, but as you'll see it has some fatal flaws:

<?php
$imageList = range(1,1000);

for ( $counter = 0; if(file_exists("image$imageList.jpg")); $counter += 1) {
<a href="images/image$imageList.jpg">
</a>
}
?>

thanks in advance for any help you can offer.

[NogDog]

You could do something like:

<?php
foreach(range(1, 1000) as $nbr) {
   if(file_exists("images/image$nbr.jpg"))
   {
      echo "<a href='images/image$nbr.jpg'>image$nbr</a><br />\n";
   }
}

It might be more efficient to do something like:

<?php
$images = glob("images/image{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9}*.jpg", GLOB_BRACE);
foreach($images as $file)
{
   echo "<a href='file'>".basename($file)."</a><br />\n";
}

(This approach though would assume that there will not be file names in that directory such as "image12abc.jpg" that you do not want to be included in the list.)

[markvwald]

thanks NogDog. your first solution worked perfectly. much appreciated.