Difference between revisions of "PHP-and-MySQL/C4/Display-Images-from-a-Directory/English-timed"

|And inside what we'll be doing is we'll be reading the directory so 'read dir'.

|And we'll do this with a while loop because for each loop around the while loop we want to echo out or rather display the image of each image inside the folder.

|So we'll start with our while loop, we'll create what will go in it, in a minute and here's our block of code we'll execute, in between here, for our while loop.

|Okay for this what we'll do is if file equals read directory, that's a new function I've just introduced.

|And obviously you may have guessed you have to type 'open dir' variable inside here.

|So this is basically reading the directory that we've already opened using the open dir function.

|So these are two really useful functions so I can harmonize them with each other.

|And again we'll validate this here and say if it doesn't equal 'false' or if it's not equal to or if it doesn't open or if it can't be read that means we may run into a few errors later on.

|So lets just put that into parenthesis.

|Okay so that should be our complete while statement.

|Now inside there's a really easy way to do this because we've created this file variable.

|And we're inside a while loop so this is gonna dynamically update for each file contained within this directory.

|So all we really need to do is now say 'echo file'  and what we might want to do is add a 'br'to the end of that.

|So if we open up our browser and refresh, you can see that we've got all our directories listed.

|Now I do have some other tutorials  on directory listing I think I've mentioned this before.

|We've got a dot and a double dot,this is basically just standard notations for directory structures.

|dot i think is current directory, two dots is to go back or something like that.

|but what we need to do now is validate this inside our loop to make sure we don't echo out this dot and this full stop - these two dots, sorry.

|So we'll need to get rid of these.

|So what I'll do is I'll say if file doesn't equal dot and - we need an 'and' here instead of an 'or' - and file doesn't equal dot dot.

|So as we're looping through its going to say "Does this equal dot?"

|In the first case its going to be 'yes' so we'll  completely ignore this statement inside our if - the command inside our if statement.

|So now what we'll do is refresh and we see that they have disappeared.

|Okay so the next thing to do is to manipulate this file variable here to actually make an image.

|So what we'll do is I'll take away all of this and I'll just write some html code as an omni word.

|So image source equals something in here.

|Obviously if you have images of all different sizes you will want to put them all in the same size and then maybe have a hyper link to them so you can click them to view them individually.

|Okay and then we'll have a break after each one.

|The reason is that if I click properties you can see here we've said directory images and image 1.

|So we could write images but we already have a variable for that, that's 'dir'.

|So we just say 'dir forward slash file' so this will be images forward slash file.

|So now when we refresh you will see that we're basically back to the page I showed you at the start of this tutorial.

|So that's basically it. There are more advanced ways of doing things, to lay them out, etc.

|But if you are having any trouble then please contact me. I'll be glad to help

|All right then thanks a lot for watching.  This is Joshua Mathew dubbing for the Spoken Tutorial Project.