Easiest way to get list of files in the server directory
I disagree with @mariobgr. If there is no server setting preventing a directory listing, then the html generated by requesting that directory can be parsed for the contents.
$ tree maindir
maindir
├── index.html
└── somedir
├── doc1
├── doc2
└── doc3
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta content="IE=edge,chrome=1" http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible"><!-- JQUERY -->
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js">
</script>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Listing /somedir</h1><!-- Custom Script (defered load, after dom ready) -->
<script>
$.getJSON('./somedir', data => {
console.log(data); //["doc1.jpg", "doc2.jpg", "doc3.jpg"]
});
</script>
</body>
I managed to do it in base javascript using a modifyed ajax command to get the folder list as an html file. Then I grep the file names from inside of it:
function loadDoc() {
var xhttp = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhttp.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200) {
// gets the entire html file of the folder 'logpost' in this case and labels it thing
thing = this.responseText
searchFor = /.html</g
a=0;
b=0;
var str = "";
// greps file for .html and then backs up leter by letter till you hot the file name and all
while ((dothtmls = searchFor.exec(thing)) != null ){
str = "";
console.log(dothtmls.index);
a = dothtmls.index;
while (thing[a] != '>' ){
a--;
}
a++;
while(thing[a] != '<'){
str = str + thing[a];
a++;
}
console.log(str);
}
}
};
xhttp.open("GET", "logpost/", true);
xhttp.send();
}This is probably not the cleanist way but if you are working on a static web sever it should work :)
Javascript cannot fetch all files on a server, as it is a client-side langugage.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.glob.php is what you need.
$all = glob('/path/to/dir/*.*');
$images = glob('/path/to/dir/*.{jpg,png,gif}');