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I'm trying to create a series of functions, when activated:

 

a. scans a target directory for jpg's -> returns file names to an array

b. takes those file names and stripes the .jpg from them -> return file name, extension, and full filename

c. inserts said file names into a MySQL database

 

Here's the problem: The second function won't loop on the return array('name' => $name), it just does it once.

Code:

Function 1 (of 3)

function scanJpg($phpath){
$dir = opendir($phpath);

while(false !== ($file = readdir($dir))){
	if($file != "." && $file != ".."){
		if(!is_dir($phpath.$file)){
		$results[] = $file;
		}
	}
}
closedir($dir);
return $results;
}

// returns
// Array ( [0] => lakeonrefuge.jpg [1] => shasta04.jpg [2] => carly_lol.jpg [3] => beach_adventures_florence.jpg [4] => beach_adventures.jpg [5] => Beach-0168.jpg )

 

function 2

function stripJpg($jpgs,$phpath){
foreach($jpgs as $jpg){
	$ext = strrchr($jpg, '.');
		if($ext !== false)
		{
			$name = substr($jpg, 0, -strlen($ext));
			echo $name."<br />";
			echo $jpg."<br />";
			echo $ext."<br /><br />";
			return array(
				'name' => $name,
				'filename' => $jpg,
				'ext' => $ext
			);
		}

}
}


## $jpgs = scanJpg($phpath);
## print_r(stripJpg($jpgs,$phpath));
##
## returns the following
## Array ( [name] => lakeonrefuge [filename] => lakeonrefuge.jpg [ext] => .jpg )

 

What am I overlooking? Thanks in advance!

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The function is not looping through all the array elements because after the first array element is processed, your function is 'returning'

 

return array(
				'name' => $name,
				'filename' => $jpg,
				'ext' => $ext
			);

 

Instead of writing return in each iteration, just assign the results in another array and return that array after the entire parameter array is looped through.

 

Like this:-

foreach($jpgs as $jpg)
{
     $ext = strrchr($jpg, '.');
     if($ext !== false)
     {
    $name = substr($jpg, 0, -strlen($ext));
    echo $name."<br />";
    echo $jpg."<br />";
    echo $ext."<br /><br />";
    $value[] =  array(
				'name' => $name,
				'filename' => $jpg,
				'ext' => $ext
			);
     }
}
return $value;

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