Re: Create array from directory

On Monday 14 April 2003 15:56, Chris Blake wrote: > First off, thanks for the assistance...I found a similar example at > php.net after looking up is_file(), however, my problem is still there. > > Running the code below just turns up an empty page : > ----------------------------------------------------------- > <?php > > $image_dir = '../graphics/'; > $dir = opendir($image_dir); > $gallery = array(); > > while ($file = readdir($dir)) > { > $filepath = $image_dir . $file ; > if (($file !='.' && $file !='..') && > is_file($filepath)) > { > array_push($gallery, [$file]); > } > } > closedir($dir); > sort($gallery); > srand ((float)microtime()*1000000); > shuffle ($gallery); > ?> > <html> > <head> > <title>Shuffling Arrays</title> > </head> > <body> > <center> > <H1>Shuffling Arrays</H1> > <table width="100%"> > <tr> > <?php > for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) > { > print '<td align = "center"><img src = "'; > print ($filepath); > print '" width = "100" height = > "100"></img></td>'; > } > > print $filepath; > ?> > </tr> > </table> > </center> > </body> > </html> > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The intention behind this is to open a dir, place all the images into > the array and then randomly select 3 images for display on the page. > > I`ve tried a few things now but still a blank page ! 1) You've stored your filenames in $gallery, use $print_r() to check that they contain what you expect it to contain. 2) No point using sort() then promptly shuffle() it. Just shuffle() it. 3) Although you've prepared $gallery you're not using it in your for-loop. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Once I finally figured out all of life's answers, they changed the questions. */