Get value from drop down list

[IamTomCat]

Hi ,

 

I am pretty new to php. I would like to create a php website based on folders. 

 

I have a code so far that shows the names of folder in a selection box. What I would like to achieve now is how i get the images inside the folder after I click on submit. I know how to get the images with a glob function. What I don't know is how to get the value of each specific folder name. How would I do that? 

 

I have this code so far to get the names of the folders in the selection box:

<form action="test.php" method="post">
        <select name="myDirs"> 
            <option value="" selected="selected">Select a genre</option>
            <?php
            $dirs = glob("*", GLOB_ONLYDIR);
            foreach($dirs as $val){
                echo '<option value="'.$val.'">'.$val."</option>\n";
            }
            ?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit2">
<?php 

if (isset($_POST['submit2']))

foreach($dirs as $val){

        

{

echo $val;

}

}     

        ?>

        </form>

 

How could get I'm now images which are in the folder of which folder names appear in the selection box?

 

 

[CroNiX]

//basically the same way you got the dir names...with glob()

$selected_dir = $_POST['myDirs']; //you called it 'myDirs' in the form.


$images = glob($selected_dir . '*');

[Monkuar]

This needs to be moved. Wrong forum section bud

[CroNiX]

Moved to PHP Coding Help...

[IamTomCat]

Hi. Many thanks for the reply. Unfortunat it didn't work. My main issues how I access the value of each folder. And then for each folder to access the images. Let's say I select the folder name "Toy story". Then I want all the images that are in the folder Toy Story. When I select the let's say the folder name "Brain", then I want every image that is in the folder "Brain". Help would be very much appreciated. 

[Barand]

Unfortunat it didn't work.

 

Then you did it wrong, but, without your posting the code you now have, we cannot say what you did wrong

[CroNiX]

I just tested it and this worked fine. You'd just need to define the $source_dir at the top.

<?php
  $source_dir = '/home/users/images/';
?>
<form action="test.php" method="post">
<select name="myDirs"> 
  <option value="" selected="selected">Select a genre</option>
  <?php
    foreach(glob($source_dir . "*", GLOB_ONLYDIR) as $val){
      echo '<option value="'.$val.'">'.$val."</option>\n";
    }
  ?>
</select>
<input type="submit" name="submit2">
</form>
<?php 
if (isset($_POST['submit2']))
{
  //get the dir from POST
  $selected_dir = $_POST['myDirs'];
  //now get the files from within the selected dir and echo them to the screen
  foreach(glob($selected_dir . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR . '*') as $filename)
  {
    echo "$filename<br>";
  }
}
?>

[IamTomCat]

Worked brilliant  Thanks