php code to display images from directory not working - php

Question

i have this code to display images, where each user has his own, i'll comment it to save your time
<?php
session_start();
$name=$_SESSION['valid_user']; //saved current username in variable
$loc="./uploads/"; //location of image directory
$path=$loc.$name; //current user's folder to save his images
echo $path."<br>"; //i used this to make sure the path is ok, only for testing
if(is_dir($path)) //if directory exists, show it exists,otherwise show it
{ //doesnt exists
echo "<br>exists";
}
else
{
echo "<br>not exists";
}
$files = glob($path."/");
for ($i=1; $i<count($files); $i++)
{
$num = $files[$i]; //picture number
print $num."<br />";
echo '<img src="'.$path.'" alt="random image" height="100" width="100"/>'."<br /><br />";
} //shows the picture till the last one
?>
the output that i get is this this
./uploads/user_name
exists
but it does not show the images, even though the folder is not empty (upload script works fine).
EDIT; solved it (low rep, cant answer my own question).
got it. For anyone who cares, this line here
echo '<img src="' . $path . '/' . $files[$i] . '" <!-- etc --> />';
wasn't working because i added $files, which already contained the path, and it was giving input to img src as
/uploads/username/uploads/username
so that was two times the same path.Upon removing $path, and using just
<img src="' . $files[$i] . '"
did the trick. Thank you all for your help.

Answer 1

I think you need to pass a wildcard path to glob: glob($path . '/*'). You are also not printing the filename in the image source attribute:
echo '<img src="' . $path . '/' . $files[$i] . '" <!-- etc --> />';
Also, your $num is actually the filename, not the picture number - that is $i. You could really simplify that loop using the foreach construct:
foreach($files as $filename) {
// etc
}

Answer 2

you need to add a pattern for using glob afaik
$files = glob($path."/*.*"); // all files
$files = glob($path."/*.jpg"); // all jpgs etc.pp
foreach($files as $idx => $file)
{
$num = $idx+1; //idx starts with 0 so we add one here
print $num."<br />";
echo '<img src="'.$path.'/'.$file'" alt="random image" height="100" width="100"/>'."<br /><br />";
}