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How to define multiple patterns in php glob()

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php

glob

My code to get all images from a directory

$dirname = "uploads/";

$images = glob("{$dirname}*.png, {$dirname}*.jpeg, {$dirname}*.jpg, {$dirname}*.gif");

foreach($images as $image) {

    echo "<img src='{$image}' class='files_main'>";

}

This works for one type of image but fails with multiple please give the syntax of defining multiple patterns in the glob().

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rayees Avatar asked Aug 11 '16 14:08

rayees


1 Answers

You can use the GLOB_BRACE constant

GLOB_BRACE - Expands {a,b,c} to match 'a', 'b', or 'c'

e.g.

$dirname = 'uploads/';
glob("$dirname*.{png,jpeg,jpg,gif}", GLOB_BRACE);

See: http://php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php

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iainn Avatar answered Sep 22 '22 00:09

iainn



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