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SimpleXML Dynamic Attributes

I'm trying to figure out how to generate the code for this.

$revImages = $revXML->addChild('images');
$revImage = $revImages->addChild('image');
$revImage->addAttribute('src', '001.jpg');

the last line is the static entry for what I need. Is there a foreach statement I can use to auto generate that last line based on the images from a directory so it outputs as such:

<images>
    <image src = "001.jpg"/>
    <image src = "002.jpg"/>
    <image src = "003.jpg"/>
    <image src = "004.jpg"/>
    <image src = "005.jpg"/>
    <image src = "006.jpg"/>
    <image src = "007.jpg"/>
    <image src = "008.jpg"/>
    <image src = "009.jpg"/>
    <image src = "010.jpg"/>
</images>
Solution

  • The solution using glob function (to find pathnames matching a pattern):

    foreach (glob("/path/to/directory/*.jpg") as $filepath) {
    $src = basename($filepath);
    $revImages
       ->addChild('image')
       ->addAttribute('src', $src)
    ;
}