PHP Tip – Find all Images in a Folder

There may come a point in your lives when you need to find some images in a folder. There are many reasons why this may be so, but not many that come to my mind immediately – only this – find all images and organize them for some reason.

Well here is a function that I’ve picked up from somewhere and adapted slightly.

<?php

$namecheck = "apple";

$dir = opendir ("../images");
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir))) {
if (strpos($file, '.gif',1)||strpos($file, '.jpg',1) ) {

if(strpos($file, $namecheck)){
$myapples[] = $file;
}

}
}

foreach($myapples as $apple){

echo $apple;

}

?>

The above example will find all images in a specific folder with the word “apple” contained in the filename and print them out.

This can adapted in lots of ways so please use it for your own projects.

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