Displaying image from direct path

[sicoanimal]

I am trying to build a little image browser in php, but the difficulty comes because the images are on another hard drive in my computer.

I have the below code which outputs the file names but I can not get it to work with outputting an <img> tag to show the actual image.

Any ideas how to get the images to show?

$startdir = 'F:\\Images\\Photography\\';
$ignoredDirectory[] = '.';
$ignoredDirectory[] = '..';
$dh = opendir($startdir);
while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false){
  if (!(array_search($file,$ignoredDirectory) > -1)){
    echo substr($file, 0, strlen($file)-4);
    echo "<br><img src=\"$startdir$file\"><br><br>";
  }
}
closedir($dh);

[Joopy]

are you running it on local host or an actual server.

[halojoy]

The problem is 'F:\Images\Photography\'; directory
is not within your webroot.

What can be done?
One way would be you create a temporary directory /tempimages/
which can be adressed via http URL.
Then you use PHP page to copy those images from F:\ drive into temp directory.
And so can display them in <img>

Otherwise your script looks like work alright.
I prefer to use [man]scandir[/man]. Think it is simple to use.

Here I use [man]is_file[/man] so I do not get subdirectories in my files list.

<?php

// Current directory ./
$dir = './';

// Do scan directory and put in array
$files = scandir($dir);

// Loop the $files array
foreach($files AS $file){
	// Do not include folders and .. and .htaccess
	if(is_file($dir.$file) && $file[0]!='.'){
		// Make link to every file
		echo '<a href="'.$dir.$file.'">'.$file.'</a><br />';
	}
}

// DUMP all $files array
echo '<pre>';
print_r($files);

?>

[sicoanimal]

@: it is running on localhost (XAMPP on a windows pc)

@: thanks for the code, it looks a neat way of doing it. I did not want to have to copy the files across as the HDD with XAMPP on does not have enough space (there are over 2000 photos and some are rather large)

Is there anyway to get 2 webroots? so that I could run PHP files from the folder with the photos?

Thanks for the help so far,

Sico