get all the images from a folder in php

Question

I am using WordPress. I have an image folder like mytheme/images/myimages.

I want to retrieve all the images name from the folder myimages

Please advice me, how can I get images name.

Answer 1

when you want to get all image from folder then use glob() built in function which help to get all image . But when you get all then sometime need to check that all is valid so in this case this code help you. this code will also check that it is image

  $all_files = glob("mytheme/images/myimages/*.*");
  for ($i=0; $i<count($all_files); $i++)
    {
      $image_name = $all_files[$i];
      $supported_format = array('gif','jpg','jpeg','png');
      $ext = strtolower(pathinfo($image_name, PATHINFO_EXTENSION));
      if (in_array($ext, $supported_format))
          {
            echo '<img src="'.$image_name .'" alt="'.$image_name.'" />'."<br /><br />";
          } else {
              continue;
          }
    }

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Answer 2

$dir = "mytheme/images/myimages";
$dh  = opendir($dir);
while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
    $files[] = $filename;
}
$images=preg_grep ('/\.jpg$/i', $files);

Very fast because you only scan the needed directory.

Answer 3

Here is my some code

$dir          = '/Images';
$ImagesA = Get_ImagesToFolder($dir);
print_r($ImagesA);

function Get_ImagesToFolder($dir){
    $ImagesArray = [];
    $file_display = [ 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'png', 'gif' ];

    if (file_exists($dir) == false) {
        return ["Directory \'', $dir, '\' not found!"];
    } 
    else {
        $dir_contents = scandir($dir);
        foreach ($dir_contents as $file) {
            $file_type = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
            if (in_array($file_type, $file_display) == true) {
                $ImagesArray[] = $file;
            }
        }
        return $ImagesArray;
    }
}