File search - little help

[Local Hero]

I have a list of images on my server:

31539-ims-logo256.jpg
32754-TU Bliss0001.jpg
52579-beehive3.png
46365-3D View 5.jpg
32754-317V4FsXtcL_fix_1.png

I want to create something to view all files with a certain number. For instance 32754 would give me 2 files in this example (there are 100's of images)

I have:

PHP Code:

if(isset($_GET['searchFile'])) 
{ 
  
} 


and

PHP Code:

<a href='http://www.mysite.com/imagecheck2.php?searchFile=http://www.mysite.com/content/uploaded/' . $file .   </a> 


What do I need in the isset section to display the $file text images?

Thanks for any help!

[Redcoder]

PHP Code:

<?php

if(isset($_GET['searchFile'])) 
{ 

$search = $_GET['searchFile'];
  
$dir = "/images/";

$files = scandir($dir);

foreach($files as $$key=>$value)
{

if(stripos($value, $search) !== false)
{
 
        $array_of_images[] = $value;


}


}

}

Then in your HTML page where you output the images, just iterate through $array_of_images

Like this:

PHP Code:

foreach($array_of_images as $value)
{

   echo "<a href='".$value."'>'".$value."'</a>";  

} 


[Local Hero]

Perfect! Thanks!

[Fou-Lu]

A glob would probably be a bit easier to work with for this.

PHP Code:

if (isset($_GET['searchFile']) && false !== filter_var($_GET['searchFile'], FILTER_VALIDATE_INT))
{
    $sSearch = '/path/to/images/' . (int)$_GET['searchFile'] . '*';
    $aFiles = glob($sSearch);
    foreach ($aFiles AS $file)
    {
           echo "<a href='".$file."'>'".$file ."'</a>";  
    }
} 


Looks like it would work. I assume that searchFile will always be a number and validated it as such. Never allow a path to enter your search criteria, but if you need a string, you can always encode the / first so at least it would fail instead of granting access to higher level directories.
There are also iterators you can work with, including the globiterator and regexiterator. The glob iterator usage is almost identical to the glob, and the regexiterator would be used in conjunction with a filesystem or directory iterator.