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PHP File Exists with a wildcard

I have a page that requires a loop to loop through pictures of a specific listing. The previously uploaded and are prefixed with that ID of a particular listing. IE. ListingID = 10284, so the image files are something like this 10284_1.jpg, 10284_2.jpg, etc. What I need to do is use the file exists function in php to find out how many files are in given folder with that prefix (in this case 10284). I have searched but can't find a solution for this particular problem.

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dragboatrandy

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Can I use a value from a database like this?

<?php $arrImages = glob('../'.$row_rsListings['ListingID'].'_*.jpg');

echo count($arrImages);
?>

glcummins

Certainly, as long as $row_rsListings['ListingID'] evaluates to a valid string.

Brian S

So a bit of confusion for me...

If I have code that in html looks like:
<div class="zip">
<a href="code123.zip"><img src="/images/zip.gif" alt="Download Zip"></a>
</div>

and instead of hard-coding the code123 name I want just grab the zip in the current directory then it would be:

<div class="zip">
<?php
$zip = glob('./*.zip');
echo "<a href=\"$zip\"><img src=\"/images/zip.gi\f" alt=\"Download Zip\"></a>
?>
</div>

<div class="zip">
<?php
$zip = glob('./*.zip');
echo "<a href=\"$zip\"><img src=\"/images/zip.gi\f" alt=\"Download Zip\"></a>
?>
</div>

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Brian S

After a few typos and such this is the horrid code that I hacked.

I just want to ensure that there is just one zip file if there is allow the download else error

<?php
$zipcnt = glob("*.zip");
 
//echo "Zip = $zip";
echo "Count = ".count($zipcnt)."\n";
 
if (count($zipcnt) == 1) {
   foreach (glob("*.zip") as $zip);
   echo "<div class=\"zip\">";
   echo "<a href=\"".$zip."\"><img src=\"/images/zip.gif\" alt=\"Download Zip\"></a>";
   echo "</div>";
} else {
   echo "zip count is wrong ".count($zipcnt);
}
?>

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