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Don_Jarmo on 10/25/11

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Image files to xml

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Checks for image files in directory and creates a XML file of the contents

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<?php
header("Content-Type: text/xml"); //set the content type to xml
// Initialize the xmlOutput variable
$xmlBody = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>';
$dir = "images/gallery1/"; // Specify Directory where images are 
$xmlBody .= "<XML>"; // Start XMLBody output
// open specified directory using opendir() the function
$dirHandle = opendir($dir); 
// Create incremental counter variable if needed
$i = 0;
while ($file = readdir($dirHandle)) { 
      // if file is not a folder and if file name contains the string .jpg  
      if(!is_dir($file) && strpos($file, '.jpg')){
         $i++; // increment $i by one each pass in the loop
         $xmlBody .= '
<Picture>
    <picNum>' . $i . '</picNum>
    <picURL>' . $dir . '' . $file . '</picURL>
</Picture>';
      } // close the if statement
} // End while loop
closedir($dirHandle); // close the open directory
$xmlBody .= "</XML>";
echo $xmlBody; // output the gallery data as XML file for flash