Posts tagged gallery

PHP: Display all files/pictures in a folder

644 days

by alex in PHP, Programming

If we want to create a quick gallery of files/pictures, it is quite a pain to do so manually. And since this is some code I'm always reusing I thought I might share it here with everyone else:

Let's suppose we are in the base directory (www.mysite.com/gallery.php) and the pictures are in a folder named pictures (www.mysite.com/pictures/), open gallery.php and where you want the pictures to appear, use this code:

$handle = opendir(dirname(realpath(__FILE__)).'/pictures/');
		while($file = readdir($handle)){
			if($file !== '.' && $file !== '..'){
				echo '<img src="pictures/'.$file.'" border="0" />';
			}
		}

This code is really easy to understand, we first define a variable "$handle", which will contain the handle to the absolute path of the folder (I always go for absolute paths since I find them much safer)
dirname(realpath(__FILE__)) returns the absolute path to the current file (gallery.php) and then we add to the end of it /pictures/

Then, we loop through all the files in the directory, that simple if statement I used is to prevent some the function returning . or .. as file names sometimes. We then display the image in standard html

Take care!
Alex

Best free icons

1406 days

by alex in Graphic Design, Icons, Layout/Styling, Web-related

This is my list of the best free icon services around, all with a preview and a description

To visit just click on the title or in the image. Most of the icon sets below are both in png and ico formats, and the download page can be found within the preview page in most of the times.