PHP Folder Gallery

Written on December 6, 2009 at 11:31 pm, by Harlan Brown

I stumbled upon a nice little php script to create a gallery from a folder. The script worked for all intensive purposes, but was not XHTML 1.0 Transitional Compliant. So, like the enthusiast I am, I set out to make it as such.

This is a php script which will parse through a folder, grab anything in that folder, assign it a table cell, attempt to make it the background image of a div inside that cell, and put a 15% transparent white image in the div in order to create a link to the image. The link opens the image in a new browser / tab instance.

PHP / XHTML:

<?php
//init counter
$a = '0';

//new row variable
$newrow = "</tr><tr>";

//sets the directory where your images are to be pulled from
$filepath = "gallery"; //your image folder

$dir = dir($filepath);

//start the table for the gallery
echo '<table id="gal1" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="75%"><tr>';

//while there are files keep reading the directory

while($entry=$dir->read()) {
    if($entry == "." || $entry == ".." || strtoupper($entry) == "THUMBS.DB") {
        continue;
    }
    $fp = @fopen("$filepath/$entry","r");

//dynamically adds a new row once a multiple of 5 is reached

if ($a % 5 == 0 && $a != 0){echo $newrow;}

//replaces the space in the URI with the right formatting of %20

$entry = str_replace(' ', '%20', $entry);

  //code for the indvidual images in the gallery

echo '
  <td>
  <div class="thumb" style="background-image: url('.$filepath.'/'.$entry.');">
      <a target="_blank" href="'.$filepath.'/'.$entry.'">
          <img src="img/gallery-link.png" alt="'.$entry.'" />
      </a>
  </div>
  </td>';

//counter

$a++;

}
echo '</tr>
</table>';
?>

CSS:

.thumb{width: 125px; height: 125px; background-position: left; background-repeat: no-repeat; border: 1px solid #666666;}
.thumb a img{border: none;}
#gal1{margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;}

Example: phpFolderGallery
Download: phpFolderGallery.zip
Original: Creating an Image Gallery with PHP