Question

I have a link that I have to repeat 50 times, for each folder, and I have 15 folders.the link that I have to repeat looks like this:

<a href="update/images/Cars/car (x).JPG" rel="lightbox[cars]"></a>

now, the jpg files are named car 1- car 50. and I would really like to be able to generate this script so that I can input the path “update/images/Cars/” the picture title (car) and the input the number of times that I need this link, and then have it spit out something that looks like this:

<a href="update/images/Cars/car (1).JPG" rel="lightbox[cars]"></a>
<a href="update/images/Cars/car (2).JPG" rel="lightbox[cars]"></a>
<a href="update/images/Cars/car (3).JPG" rel="lightbox[cars]"></a>
<a href="update/images/Cars/car (4).JPG" rel="lightbox[cars]"></a>
<a href="update/images/Cars/car (5).JPG" rel="lightbox[cars]"></a>
<a href="update/images/Cars/car (6).JPG" rel="lightbox[cars]"></a>

and then it keeps repeating, I’m assuming this can be done with a counter, but I’m not sure. Thanks!

Answer 1

You can do it with a for loop:

$path = "update/images/Cars/";
$title = "car";
$times = 50;

for($i = 1; $i <= $times; $i++)
    echo "<a href=\"$path$title ($i).JPG\" rel=\"lightbox[$title]\"></a>\n";

I used $title for the lightbox argument since you didn’t specify