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The syntax to loop through each file individually in a loop is: create a variable (f for file, for example). Then define the data set you want the variable to cycle through. In this case, cycle through all files in the current directory using the * wildcard character (the * wildcard matches everything).
We use a standard wildcard glob pattern '*' which matches all files. By adding a '/' afterward, we'll match only directories. Then, we assign each directory to the value of a variable dir. In our simple example, we then execute the echo command between do and done to simply output the value of the variable dir.
scandir:
$files = scandir('folder/');
foreach($files as $file) {
//do your work here
}
or glob may be even better for your needs:
$files = glob('folder/*.{jpg,png,gif}', GLOB_BRACE);
foreach($files as $file) {
//do your work here
}
Check out the DirectoryIterator class.
From one of the comments on that page:
// output all files and directories except for '.' and '..'
foreach (new DirectoryIterator('../moodle') as $fileInfo) {
if($fileInfo->isDot()) continue;
echo $fileInfo->getFilename() . "<br>\n";
}
The recursive version is RecursiveDirectoryIterator.
Looks for the function glob():
<?php
$files = glob("dir/*.jpg");
foreach($files as $jpg){
echo $jpg, "\n";
}
?>
Try GLOB()
$dir = "/etc/php5/*";
// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents
foreach(glob($dir) as $file)
{
echo "filename: $file : filetype: " . filetype($file) . "<br />";
}
Use the glob function in a foreach loop to do whatever is an option. I also used the file_exists function in the example below to check if the directory exists before going any further.
$directory = 'my_directory/';
$extension = '.txt';
if ( file_exists($directory) ) {
foreach ( glob($directory . '*' . $extension) as $file ) {
echo $file;
}
}
else {
echo 'directory ' . $directory . ' doesn\'t exist!';
}
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