On 9 Sep 2012, at 04:19, David McGlone <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday, September 08, 2012 03:49:27 PM you wrote: >> On 8 Sep 2012, at 15:35, David McGlone <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. :-/ I really can't tell whether you're being sarcastic, so I'll assume you're not. Read about function arguments: http://php.net/functions.arguments -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php