dynamic loading of all images in a folder

[bnet74]

------Flash MX 2004 Pro------
Is there a simple(?) way to auto- and dynamicaly load all images in a specific folder with, for example, your holliday images. My images names are auto generated by my digital camera and looks like this:

IMG_0134.JPG
IMG_0135.JPG
IMG_0142.JPG
IMG_0144.JPG

The best thing would be if some code could load all images in a folder irrespective of the file names (my_image_1a.jpg, myCat.jpg, IMG_0134.jpg, IMG_04.jpg etc.)

Please help me. I don't want to manualy write a long list, xml or similar

Thanx

[catbert303]

If you have PHP installed on your server you could use that to read the content of the directory and return a list of files to the flash movie.

I think something like this should work,

<?php
$dir = 'path/to/the/directory';
$numfiles = 0;

if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($openDir = opendir($dir)) {
        while (false !== ($file = readdir($openDir))) {
            if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
                if (is_file($dir . '/' . $file)) {
                    $f = explode('.', $file);
                    $ext = array_pop($f);
                    if ($ext == 'jpg') {
                        echo "&filename$numfiles=$file";
                        ++$numfiles;
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
    closedir($openDir);
}

?>

which could be run using the LoadVars object, and would return variables named filename0, filename1 etc...

var lv = new LoadVars();
lv.onLoad = function(ok) {
    if (ok) {
        var i = 0;
        // loop through the loaded variables
        while (this["filename" + i] != undefined) {
            trace(this["filename" + i]);
            ++i;
        }
    }
};
lv.load("your_php_script.php");

[bnet74]

Thanx, that works too.
But the thing I realy wanted was to do this directly from Flash, but I don't think it's possible, after looking around on different forum's. Then your solution must be the best, i guess?!

/bnet

[catbert303]

I think the best you can do directly from flash is to check to see if a file exists,

http://www.flashguru.co.uk/checking_...ile_exists.php