How to load all the images from one of my folder into my web page, using Jquery/Javascript
I have a folder named "images" in the same directory as my .js file. I want to load all the images from "images" folder into my html page using Jquery/Javascript.
Since, names of images are not some successive integers, how am I supposed to load these images?
Works both localhost and on live server without issues, and allows you to extend the delimited list of allowed file-extensions:
var folder = "images/";
$.ajax({
url : folder,
success: function (data) {
$(data).find("a").attr("href", function (i, val) {
if( val.match(/\.(jpe?g|png|gif)$/) ) {
$("body").append( "<img src='"+ folder + val +"'>" );
}
});
}
});
NOTICE
Apache server has Option Indexes
turned on by default - if you use another server like i.e. Express for Node you could use this NPM package for the above to work: https://github.com/expressjs/serve-index
If the files you want to get listed are in /images
than inside your server.js you could add something like:
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const path = require('path');
// Allow assets directory listings
const serveIndex = require('serve-index');
app.use('/images', serveIndex(path.join(__dirname, '/images')));
Use :
var dir = "Src/themes/base/images/";
var fileextension = ".png";
$.ajax({
//This will retrieve the contents of the folder if the folder is configured as 'browsable'
url: dir,
success: function (data) {
//List all .png file names in the page
$(data).find("a:contains(" + fileextension + ")").each(function () {
var filename = this.href.replace(window.location.host, "").replace("http://", "");
$("body").append("<img src='" + dir + filename + "'>");
});
}
});
If you have other extensions, you can make it an array and then go through that one by one using in_array()
.
P.s : The above source code is not tested.
This is the way to add more file extentions, in the example given by Roy M J in the top of this page.
var fileextension = [".png", ".jpg"];
$(data).find("a:contains(" + (fileextension[0]) + "), a:contains(" + (fileextension[1]) + ")").each(function () { // here comes the rest of the function made by Roy M J
In this example I have added more contains.