PHP (Linux) all files beginning with ...

willsherwood
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I need to generate a loop to display all images that begin with a given base filename (which will have suffixes of various syntaxes, but the base that i give will be unique for this image grouping purpose).  The (foreach?) loop would iterate four times in the below case.
Please help me with the PHP wildcard directory search and ensuing loop to process the files

example directory contents:
100.jpg
100a.jpg
100b.jpg
100c.jpg 

$directory_results_from_wildcard_search =
               directory_lookup_wildcard ($path_with_base_filename+"*"+".jpg");

//explode???  line by line???

foreach ($directory_results_from_wildcard_search)
{
 i can display image at a time here, i'm okay with this part
}

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Commented:
maybe something like glob function? http://php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php
V4nP3rs13
Commented:
<?php
foreach (glob("$path_with_base_filename*.txt") as $file) {
    echo "$file\n";
}
?>
willsherwood

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Commented:
i read in the first reference that there may be a problem with # files.
this directory in this example has 4000 (!) files.
It's an inherited client site, so we have to live with the situation.
i'll give these a try.
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szewkam

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well, comment about large number of files was for numbers from 100000 in folder, 4k shouldn't be a problem.
Of course, you should give it a try, and think of other solution if you encounter "Allowed memory size" error
willsherwood

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Commented:
yes works fine,  many thanks
willsherwood

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appreciated

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