PHP to post links to sub directories & php to display images - php

Question

I'm very basic when it comes to PHP.
With my website, I have a directory called "uploads"
Within "uploads" I have 3 folders "Example1" "Example2" and "Example3"
Within each of the folders, they contain images.
I need to know how to use php to create a navigation for every sub directory.
So that if I add a new folder "Example4" it will give a navigation like:
Select what section you're looking for:
Example1 | Example2 | Example3
and if I later add new folders add them to the navigation.
EX:
Example1 | Example2 | Example3 | Example4 | Example5
Then once they click the link to go into the folder, have a code that displays all the images in that folder.
So far I have:
<?php
$files = glob("uploads/*.*");
for ($i=0; $i<count($files); $i++)
{
$num = $files[$i];
echo '<img src="/'.$num.'">'."<p>";
}
?>
but it will only display the images in the upload directory, not the images in Example1 and so on.
How on earth would I go about doing this? I'm doing it for a school project and have two weeks to complete it, but I am so lost. I only have knowledge with CSS, HTML, and the only PHP I know is php includes, so any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Since it seems that you are familiar with globs a bit, here is an example using the "glob" function. You can see a basic working example of what you are looking for here:
http://newwebinnovations.com/glob-images/
Here is how I have the example set up:
There are two PHP files, one is index.php and the other is list-images.php.
There is also a folder for images two subfolders that have images inside of them.
index.php is the file that finds the folders in the images folder and places them in a list with links list-images.php which will display the images inside of the folder:
$path = 'images';
$folders = glob($path.'/*');
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($folders as $folder) {
echo '<li>'.$folder.'</li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
The links created above have a dynamic variable created that will pass in the link to the list-images.php page.
Here is the list-images.php code:
if (isset($_GET['folder'])) {
$folder = $_GET['folder'];
}
$singleImages = array();
foreach (glob($folder . '/*.{jpg,jpeg,png,gif}', GLOB_BRACE) as $image) {
$imageElements = array();
$imageElements['source'] = $image;
$singleImages[$image] = $imageElements;
}
echo '<ul>';
foreach ($singleImages as $image) {
echo '<li><img src="'.$image['source'].'" width="400" height="auto"></li>';
}
echo '</ul>';
The links created here will link you to the individual images.

Answer 2

To get files of every specific folder ,pass it throw a get variable that contains folder's name,an then scan this folder an show images ,url should be like this :
listImages.php?folderName=example1
To have menu like what you want :
<?php
$path = 'uploads/' ;
$results = scandir($path);
for ($i=0;$i<count($results);$i++ ) {
$result=$results[$i];
if ($result === '.' or $result === '..') continue;
if (is_dir($path . '/' . $result)) {
echo "<a href='imgs.php?folderName=$result'>$result</a> ";
}
if($i!=count($results)-1) echo '|'; //to avoid showing | in the last element
}
?>
And here is PHP page listImages that scan images of a specific folder :
<?php
if (isset($_GET['folderName'])) $folder=$_GET['folderName'];
$path = 'uploads/'.$folder.'/' ;
$images = glob($path . '*.{jpg,jpeg,png,gif}', GLOB_BRACE);
foreach ($images as $image) {
echo "<img src='$image' />";
}
?>

Answer 3

First of all, do read more PHP manual, for directory related: opendir, for files related: fopen
The following code is basically re-arranging the example code provided in opendir. What it does:
A scan_directory function to simply check if directory path is valid and is a directory, then proceed to do a recursive call if there's a child directory else just print out the file name.
The first if/else condition is just to ensure the base directory is valid.
I'll added ul and li to make it slightly more presentable.
$base_dir = 'upload';
if (is_dir($base_dir))
scan_directory($base_dir);
else
echo 'Invalid base directory. Please check your setting.';
// recursive function to check all dir
function scan_directory($path) {
if (is_dir($path)) {
if ($dir_handle = opendir($path)) {
echo '<ul>';
while (($file = readdir($dir_handle)) !== false) {
if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
if (is_dir($path . '/' . $file)) {
echo '<li>';
echo $file;
scan_directory($path . '/' . $file);
echo '</li>';
}
else
echo "<li>{$file}</li>";
}
}
echo '</ul>';
}
}
}

Answer 4

create image as subdirectory name with image name and save it in database
example:
subdirectory name: example2
image name: image.jpg
store image name in db as "example2/image.jpg"