PHP Locate a stored file by a part of its name

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friends. I need to locate a file, stored in my site while using php and finding it with a part of its name. I cant locate it by its entire name because the php file cannot know its extension. It might be png and might be jpg.

How do I do that?

What have you tried? How do you plan to handle files with the same name, but different extensions? — BenM, Dec 11 '12 at 15:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 11 '12 at 15:18

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You will want to look at glob.

answered Dec 11 '12 at 15:18

deceze

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 11 '12 at 15:18

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You could use glob()

Here's an example:

<?php

foreach(glob("path/to/files/imagename.*") as $file)
{
    // do something with the file here
    echo $file;
}

answered Dec 11 '12 at 15:18

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PHP Locate a stored file by a part of its name

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