Listing certain extensions in PHP Dir List

Question

Have the following to provide a dir list in an array

for($index=0; $index < $indexCount; $index++) {
        if (substr("$dirArray[$index]", 0, 1) != ".") { // don't list hidden files
 echo "<option value=\"".$dirArray[$index]."\">".$dirArray[$index]."</option>";
 }

Is there any way i can modify the above code so that only .JPG and .PNG are displayed?

Thanks!

CP

Answer 1

You can use regular expression to match if file name ends with .jpg or .png

for($index=0; $index < $indexCount; $index++) 
{
    if(preg_match("/^.*\.(jpg|png)$/i", $dirArray[$index]) == 1) 
    {
      echo "<option value=\"".$dirArray[$index]."\">".$dirArray[$index]."</option>";
    }
}

/i at the end of regular expression is case insensitive flag.