file extension and trigger

[nisroc]

What i am trying to do is create a gallery by using the paths to a folder as links, example is <a href="../gallery/scenes"> ... and ../gallery/cities.... I have a sidebar menu populated like this and works fast so i wish to keep it.  Now in my main content area i have a php script that will read the directory contents and display the images in the folder into a div.

 

I have two questions;

<?php

$path = "gallery/scenes";
$dh = opendir($path);
while (false !== ($file = readdir($dh))) {
	if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
	echo "<img src=\"$path/$file\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" />";
	}
}

closedir ($dh);
?>

 

 

First is, folders are generating thumbs.db file when the images are called to the page. it has not affected me that i can see but i would like to cancel it out from the script anyway. To do so i wish to filter the db extension, but i do not know how, A little shove/push in right direction should help me here.

 

Second Like i said in fist paragraph, i want to have a links that that point to a directory and that when clicked will trigger the script above. My problem is how would i trigger this script from a link? I really do not wish to create whole new page for each gallery.

 

Thanks in advance for any help on these problems

[RussellReal]

for 'first'

 

change

      if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {

      echo "<img src=\"$path/$file\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" />";

      }

 

 

to

 

      if (($file != ".") && ($file != "..") && (substr($file,strlen($file) - 3) != '.db')) {

      echo "<img src=\"$path/$file\" height=\"100\" width=\"100\" />";

      }

 

for 'second'

you'd want htaccess

[nisroc]

That helped big time. I though browser was  running slow cause of the image size now that i added that small part you suggested it is running normal again. ty

[RussellReal]

no problemo