Anyone able to throw together a html search

would anyone be able to make a site search in html that pulls keywords from image filenames or alts and displays thumbnails on a results page?

 

also forgot to add that my images are in different folders and not databases etc

 

I'm not too sure you've thought this through properly. It'll be quite hard to do exactly what you want without having the data stored in the database, but this may get you started:

<?php
$dir    = '/images';
$files1 = scandir($dir);
$files2 = scandir($dir, 1);
 
print_r($files1);
print_r($files2);
?>

PHP:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php

This will scan $dir and put all file names into an array. It's up to you how you handle the array but with it you have both the image name and the image location allowing you to show the image as an image and the image name as text. You could strip out the .* extension so you have the pure text version.

As for image alt tags, well they aren't stored in a directory, they're stored on a page.