Simple PHP script problem...

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  1. #1
    I've found this simple PHP script that takes images from a folder and list them in a page, the problem is that the images are listed alphabetically I think (which is fine, I use numbers at the end of the filename) but I want to to reverse the order, so instead of displaying filename1.jpg, filename2.jpg and so on it displays filename3.jpg, filename2.jpg, etc.
    <?php

$folder = 'img/';
$filetype = '*.*';
$files = glob($folder.$filetype);
echo '<table>';
for ($i=0; $i<count($files); $i++) {
    echo '<tr><td>';
    echo '<a name="'.$i.'" href="#'.$i.'"><img src="'.$files[$i].'" /></a>';
    echo substr($files[$i],strlen($folder),strpos($files[$i], '.')-strlen($folder));
    echo '</td></tr>';
}
echo '</table>';
?>
    PHP:
    My knowledge is very limited to say the least but sounds very easy to do, if someone can help me out it would be awesome. Thanks
     
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    skyblue1950, Feb 11, 2014 IP
  2. #2
    You have to reverse the for loop to start at the end of your array (count($files) - 1) rather than the beginning (0).

    <?php
$folder = 'img/';
$filetype = '*.*';
$files = glob($folder.$filetype);
echo '<table>';
for ($i = (count($files) - 1); $i >= 0; $i--) {
    echo '<tr><td>';
    echo '<a name="'.$i.'" href="#'.$i.'"><img src="'.$files[$i].'" /></a>';
    echo substr($files[$i],strlen($folder),strpos($files[$i], '.')-strlen($folder));
    echo '</td></tr>';
}
echo '</table>';
?>
    PHP:
     
    Iconiplex, Feb 11, 2014 IP
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  3. skyblue1950

    skyblue1950 Member

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    #3
    That worked perfectly! Thank you Iconiplex for the quick solution, it was much easier than I thought.
     
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    #4
    awesome and simple solution. Great :)
     
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    I'd just use an array sort... Though I'm wondering why if you only have one TD per TR why the blue blazes you're using a table... unless you're planning on adding information like filesize to it... much less why you'd output a numbered index that would invalidate every time the directory contents changed... or putting name attributes on the anchors like it's 1997...

    $files = arsort(glob($folder . $filetype));

    poof, reverse order.

    Also, you might want to look at:
    http://us2.php.net/pathinfo

    Since this:
    substr($files[$i],strlen($folder),strpos($files[$i], '.')-strlen($folder));

    could be easier done as this:
    pathInfo($fileName, PATHINFO_BASENAME)

    90% or more of the time you do brute-force string processing, particularly on things like filenames, the more likely it is there's already a function for that in PHP.
     
    deathshadow, Feb 21, 2014 IP