Listing all images in a directory using PHP

Question

I have the code below that lists all the images in a folder, the problem is that it finds some files ( a . and a ..) that I am not sure what they are so I a

Answer 1

Please use the following code to read images from the folder.

function readDataFromImageFolder() {

$imageFolderName = 14;
$base = dirname(__FILE__);
$dirname = $base.DS.'images'.DS.$imageFolderName.DS;
$files = array();

if (!file_exists($dirname)) {
    echo "The directory $dirname not exists.".PHP_EOL;
    exit;
} else {
    echo "The directory $dirname exists.".PHP_EOL;
    $dh  = opendir( $dirname );

    while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) {
        if ($filename === '.' || $filename === '..') continue;
        $files[] = $dirname.$filename;
    }
    uploadImages( $files );
}
}

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