Question

I’d like to loop through images and thumbnails from a folder and insert them into a database.
I want to use is_dir to filter out directories.

I have:

$images = scandir('./images/all_comics/');
$thumbs = scandir('./images/thumbnails/');

for($x=0; $x<count($images); $x++) 
   {
    if(!is_dir($images[$x]))
       {
        //This shows all images WITHOUT directories
        echo $images[$x]; 

        //This is STILL adding images AND directories to database
        mysql_query("INSERT INTO images (imgpath, thumbpath) VALUES ('$images[$x]', '$thumbs[$x]')");
       }
   }

I have a check in there directly after !is_dir, echo $images[$x] ,which echos out all images without the directories, as desired.

But when I check the insert in the database, I see that the directories have been added as records. Why is this?

Thank you!

Answer 1

(Deleting old answer, as the issue was a typo)

scandir returns a list of files in a given directory. When you use is_dir, it’s looking in the current directory for those files. I think what you need to do is:

if(!is_dir("./images/all_comics/" . $images[$x])) {
....