Help with recursive glob()

[system]

Hi guys,
Hope you could help me, I found out that I need my code to work recursively, but I have no idea how been trying for quite long now, so I am hoping you might help me

This is the code I have - it works - but not with the folders under uploads:
[php] <?php

$images = glob('./uploads/*.{gif,png,jpg,jpeg}', GLOB_BRACE); //formats to look for

$num_of_files = 12; //number of images to display

foreach($images as $image)
{
     $num_of_files--;

     if($num_of_files > -1)
       echo "<li class=\"span4\"><a href=\"/foto\" class=\"thumbnails\"><img src="."'".$image."'"." /></a></li>" ; //display images
     else
       break;
}

?>[/php]

Could any of you kindly please rewrite it for me, to accept the folders under “uploads”? Thank you very much!

[m11]

I personally don’t like using glob but if someone wants to help you with that they can

I would recommend using the built in Iterators: http://php.net/manual/en/spl.iterators.php

Example:

[php]

<?php $path = '/path/to/uploads'; // path to directory to search $extensions = array('gif', 'png', 'jpg', 'jpeg'); // extensions to allow // combining RecursiveIteratorIterator with RecursiveDirectoryIterator // allows you to search all sub-directories $objs = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($path), RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST); foreach($objs as $obj) { // skip everything that is not a file if (!$obj->isFile()) { continue; } // skip everything that does not match $extensions $extension = pathinfo($obj->getPathname(), PATHINFO_EXTENSION); // get extension if (!in_array($extension, $extensions)) { continue; } // this is a file that matches $extensions echo $obj->getPathname() . PHP_EOL; } ?>

[/php]

[INFinity]

Hi m@tt! Thanks for the excellent job, one more thing…is there any chance you could write one more thing into this script for me, or give me a hint on how to make it so that it shows 12 latest files?

I’ve been able to find some snippets here and there but none of them seems to work correctly thanks a lot!

P.S.: If you have paypal, tell me your address, I’d like to buy you a beer or two thanks:)

[m11]

how to make it so that it shows 12 latest files?

That is quite a bit different and I think depends on how many files you are searching. If there are thousands of files you may way to use a shell command, otherwise you could just build an array based on filemtime(), sort it and pull the top 12.

[INFinity]

oh yeah thanks I think I’ll be able to continue from here on my own, thanks again