PHP- List All Files In A Directory
I’m working on a website for a client at the moment, and one of the features I need to do is display a bunch of images in a particular directory.
It’s actually a very simple process in PHP and only requires a small amount of code. I’ve seen a lot of examples on other forums/websites that use a ridiculous amount of code to get the same result, and i’m not quite sure why.
Here’s how to list all files in a directory
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 | //path to directory to scan $directory = "../images/team/harry/"; //get all image files with a .jpg extension. $images = glob($directory . "*.jpg"); //print each file name foreach($images as $image) { echo $image; } |
It’s as easy as that.
Notes
The .jpg extension can be changed to any extension. So if you want to pull out only .txt files, you just need to replace the .jpg with .txt. If you want to list ALL files, just remove the condition.
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Thanks that example helped me a lot!
Simple and powerful. Thanks, it has helped me too!
Very helpful post… Thanks.
Mehedi Hasan
One of the best posts I’ve seen for some time, thanks a lot.
Great code, to get better support use
$images = glob(“” . $directory . “{*.jpg,*.gif,*.png}”, GLOB_BRACE);
Thanks!
Code at its best – short, sweet and easy to understand!
Thanks
How about listing files by date modified?
It solved my problem.
Thank you.
Is it possible to get the absolute path of a file which is located in any location of the system using php.
So Helpful. Thanks a Lot. It helped me to show a list of news in flat files.
Hi mate, great script.. thank you! Just wondering, how would I go about displaying the images in order? For example if they were named 1.jpg – 10.jpg?
Thanks
Matt
hey everyone, here’s a function to output certain image types, with the option to put its name under the image. -sam
function list_images($folder,$type,$listnames){
$ext = ($type === ‘all’) ? ‘{*.jpg,*.gif,*.png}’ : ‘*.’.$type;
$files = glob($folder.$ext, GLOB_BRACE);
sort($files);
foreach ($files as $file) {
if ($file “.” && $file “..” && !preg_match(“/^hide/i”,$file)){
echo ”;
echo $listnames ? ”.str_replace($folder, ”, $file).” : ”;
}
}
}
say I want to list all jpg with name underneath—
list_images(‘./’,'jpg’, true);
or if I want to list all images with no name output–
list_images(‘./’,'all’, false);
Your code works perfectly.
I’ve tried a lot of code snippets from other websites, more complicated but nothing good.
Thank you!
Wow, so simple. Thanks for bringing ‘glob’ to my attention!
So simple and so good.
My query – how would I make the list into downloadable links/ Would this work for .doc/.pdf files also?
Thank you very much! It worked instantly!
How can the code snippet be modified, so that I can only list folders, or only list files?
Hey desbest,
Try this blog post, List All Directories/Folders From A Specified Location
Great tip! Works like a charm.
Also thanks to Rickard Sogge (above) for showing how to add gif and png support.
Does anyone know how to do this for a directory located on a different server? Say you have your images located elsewhere, or just want to list all files using a path to any arbitrary domain.
This should be managable, especially if the directory listing is open when visited directly with the borwser. However it seems all paths that are not local/relative are failed by is_dir().
Hi Simon,
What makes you think that’s possible? I can’t imagine it would be because it would be a massive security risk- then anyone would be able to access all your files.
Hey hey, great script! Thanks!
Is there a way to put .txt files and its content in there too? I mean having both jpgs and txts sorted by name and displayed?
Thanks for the help!
such a beautiful solution!
Great script. I can get it to work fine anywhere on my server, except when i try to use it as part of a wordpress theme. Does anybody know why this is?
Thanks
Seems to say
Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/jpforum/public_html/Echo_Dir.php on line 17
for me
Actually I just realised I made a Typo in the code, works now
THANKS!!!!!!
Great piece of code! This works great for me, I changed .jpg to .html. The only thing I need help with is removing the _ and .html portion of the filename.
In my echo I have:
echo “$name“;
How can I have $link strip out the _ and .html portion and have $name just display the filename? Thanks!
Mike, you can use the “str_replace” function.
So before you echo $name, you can do the following:
$name = str_replace(“.html”,”",str_replace(“_”,”",$name));
Any idea about how this could be done recursively so it can check all the subdirectories too?
great code. any ideas to make it search subdirectories