On Saturday, September 08, 2012 03:49:27 PM you wrote:
> On 8 Sep 2012, at 15:35, David McGlone <da...@dmcentral.net> wrote:
> > I have a function that reads a directory and gets all the file names of
> > images, and I am wondering if it's possible to concatinate this function
> > withint an image tag. Here's an example I tried.
> >
> > function pictures() {
> >
> > $dir = 'images/property_pics/';
> > $file = array();
> >
> > if(is_dir($dir)){
> >
> > if($open = opendir($dir)){
> >
> > while (($file = readdir($open)) !== false && $file !== ".") {
> >
> > $names = substr($file, 9, 20);
> > echo $names;
> >
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > closedir($handle);
> >
> > }
> >
> > }
> >
> > $rs = $pager->paginate();
> >
> > if(!$rs) die(mysql_error());
> > while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs)) {
> >
> > echo "<div id='record'>";
> > echo "<span>";
> > echo <im src = "images/$row[$MSL_No]pictures();">
> >
> > What I am trying to do is get the last part of an image name, because I
> > know the $MSL_No is always a 9 character name which matches the image
> > name in but in the database, the last bit of characters are not there so
> > I'm trying to take the last characters of the image name and concatinate
> > them to each image name..
> >
> > Wow this is harder to explain that I thought. Here's an example
> >
> > In the DB I have a row MSL_No and the contents is: 123456789
> >
> > In my images folder I have an image named 123456789_R13_1.jpg
> >
> > My goal: get the MSL_No out of the DB and concatenate anything after it
so
> > I would end up with the whole image name..
> >
> > I hope this all made sense. :-/
>
> Is there just one image in the folder that starts with the 9 digit number?
> In that case it's dead simple (untested code):
>
> <?php
> function completeImageFilename($prefix)
> {
> $matches = glob('images/property_pics/'.$prefix.'*');
> return $matches[0];
> }
>
> echo '<img src="'.completeImageFilename($row['MSL_No']).'" />';
> ?>
>
> If you need to extract more than one image filename you should be able to
> modify that pretty easily.
YEOW! LOL I looked at this and I'm very stumped on 1 thing. How in the world
did you get $prefix to contain the image name without first assigning it to
$prefix? I understand the rest, but..... Holy smokes, that's blown my mind. :-/
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Regards
David M.
