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[Spudinski]

Hello there, and welcome to the first programming contest in CronWerks!

So to start off with the programming contest range, we chose something simple - yet challenging for everyone.

Your goal:
To create a single script using PHP to list the images that match a certain criteria within a given directory on the web-server, and show the results as simple text, with a image in the left-hand side of the page.

Detailed objectives:
There is a directory within a script's privileges, that holds a couple of images.
List all images that has GIF, JPG, PNG and BMP extensions - use lowercase extensions for simplicity.
Display an image no larger than 20 pixels in diameter, that's within the image's original aspect ratio.
Display a result after the listing of the total files displayed.

Hints:
The script that is most similar to the one I created will win.
The script I created has roughly 8 lines, excluding open- and closing tags.
Screenshot of how my script produces the result can be located here(NOTE: Your version should not contain stylesheets).


If you might have any questions regarding this competition, please feel free to ask in this thread.
Please PM "Spudinski" with either a text file containing your script, or just as raw text.

DO NOT POST YOUR SCRIPT HERE.


May the best programmer win,
Spudinski

[Danny696]

Im gonna try this. And BTW Nice little comp there.

[Spudinski]

Thanks for your submission danny696, but unfortunately it doesn't work out of the box.
Also, I can't get it to display anything, as well as you need to format the script correctly.
As a side note to everyone. maybe I didn't make it clear in my original post; the script should do exactly the same as mine, and deliver the same output as mine - look at the screenshot for more information.

But thanks for your effort, maybe you can think of another way (HINT:) that's not a function and resubmit it.

[Danny696]

Well lets saftly say ive come the closest so far

[Spudinski]

Hehe... sovar.
Though your script is properly about 0.5% similar, it's a pretty good effort.

[Danny696]

is the 0.5 the <?php and ?

[Spudinski]

Funny bunny, but yea.

[HauntedDawg]

I sent my script in. Does exactly what your's does with 2 extra line's

Online view: http://deadlykillah.net/ajax_launcher.php?display_images

[Danny696]

Bar green is blue lol.

[HauntedDawg]

Bar green is blue lol.

I know

[Spudinski]

Hmm.... Does nobody know the answer to this?
Ok, ok, I'll give you guys yet another hint...

It's not anything to do with the dir or readdir functions, as they take to long, and simply because there's a shorter way.

[Spudinski]

The last contestant was danny696, he was also incorrect.
This competition has been going for a long time, don't you think?
The next one will be a little bit easier, or at least something people can have a bit at.

The solution to this contest was the following:
$directory = './images/';
$images = glob($directory . '{*.jpg,*.png,*.bmp,*.gif}', GLOB_BRACE);

$counter = 0;
foreach($images as $image) {
    echo '<img src="./' . $image . '" style="max-width:20px;max-height:20px"> ' . basename($image) . '<br />';
    $counter++;
} 
echo '<p>Total files that match criteria: ' . number_format($counter) . '</p>';

The main goal was to discover the function glob(), but I guess no-one knew of this.
Reference(s) that might help you understand better: http://php.net/glob


* Contest Closed *