PHP - Code to traverse a directory and get all the files(images)

Question

i want to write a page that will traverse a specified directory.... and get all the files in that directory...

in my case the directory will only contain images and dis

Answer 1

$dir = "/etc/php5/";

// Open a known directory, and proceed to read its contents

if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            echo "filename: $file : filetype: " . filetype($dir . $file) . "\n";
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}

For further reference :http://php.net/manual/en/function.opendir.php