Display images from directory with PHP - php

Question

i'm new to PHP and jQuery but i would like to do the following things to a portfolio that i'm developing using easySlider and Lightbox plugin:
Display a limit of six images or six div images per "li" tag and close it from a directory.
If there is more than six images on the directory, create a new "li" tag and show six more images, till all the images from that directory are loaded.
If an image has a name with a number after -> display: Hidden. For example: beta1 but i only want to show the first one "beta"
Sort images by name.
Don't let anyone access to the images on that directory, if it isn't the code itself.
The code for portfolio is the following:
<div id="portfolio_hold">
<ul>
<li>
<div class="portfolio_pic_hold">
<a href="large.jpg" rel="lightbox[]" >
<img src="thumb.jpg"/>
</a>
</div>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
This is my html example of what i want to show.

Answer 1

This might do the trick
$thumbsPath = "trabalhos/design/thumbs/";
$imagespath = "trabalhos/design/images/";
$file_display = array('jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif');
if (file_exists($thumbsPath) == false)
{
echo 'Directory \'', $thumbsPath, '\' not found.';
}
else
{
$thumbs = glob($thumbsPath."*.[".implode($file_display,"|")."]");
if (file_exists($imagesPath) == false){
echo 'Directory \'', $imagesPath, '\' not found.';
} else
{
$counter = 0;
$filesPerPage = 6;
foreach ($thumbs as $file)
{
if($counter % $filesPerPage) echo "<li>";
$counter++;
$info = pathinfo($file);
$sFile = basename($file,'.'.$info['extension']);
$aFiles = glob($images.$sFile."[0-9]+.[".implode($file_display,"|")."]"); //Este array tem todas as imagens relativas ao thumbnail que estás a ver
echo "<div><img /></div>";
if($counter == $filesPerPage) echo "</li>";
}
}
}