PHP use glob() inside MySQLi while loop - php

Question

On my website's dashboard, I use a while loop to retrieve data from a DB and echo each record. Inside this while loop, I use glob() to show all the images inside the specific folder, which is a column in my DB table, $record["folder"].
This is the code I use:
while($record = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
$directory = '../send-us-your-photos/media/'.$record['folder'];
chdir($directory);
$images = glob("*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG,png,PNG}", GLOB_BRACE);
foreach($images as $image) {
echo '<div class="col-sm-4">
<img src="'.$directory.'/'.$image.'" />
<div>'.$image.'</div>
</div>';
}
}
Now, the first record works fine and is showing the images in the specific folder. But the next records all show the same $image data but for a different folder.
So for example:
Record 1: folder 1 - shows image1.jpg
Record 2: folder 2 - tries to find same image1.jpg in folder 2
Record 3: folder 3 - tries to find same image1.jpg in folder 3
What I need:
Record 1: folder 1 - shows images in folder 1
Record 2: folder 2 - shows images in folder 2
Record 3: folder 3 - shows images in folder 3
How should I change my code so it shows the correct images in each record?

Answer 1

simply , don't change your directory , and use your directory path directly in glob function
while($record = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
$directory = '../send-us-your-photos/media/'.$record['folder'];
// chdir($directory);
$images = glob($directory . "/*.{jpg,JPG,jpeg,JPEG,png,PNG}", GLOB_BRACE);
foreach($images as $image) {
echo '<div class="col-sm-4">
<img src="'.$directory.'/'.$image.'" />
<div>'.$image.'</div>
</div>';
}
}

Answer 2

I think it's down to your chdir statement. You are going down one folder .. then up to send-us-your-photos/media/_FOLDER_.
So the next time you start off in send-us-your-photos/media/_FOLDER_ and go back one folder .. to send-us-your-photos/media/ and then it tries to go to send-us-your-photos/media/send-us-your-photos/media/_FOLDER_ and obviously fails.
It doesn't look like it's failing because you're outputting the value of $directory which you set yourself. Try outputting getcwd() instead.