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List images from a folder automatically via PHP

Heres a little code snippet I used to list all the images in a folder.

// the directory, where your images are stored
$imgdir = '/images/'; 

// list of filetypes you
$allowed_types = array('png','jpg','jpeg','gif'); want to show

$dimg = opendir($imgdir);
while($imgfile = readdir($dimg))
{
 if(in_array(strtolower(substr($imgfile,-3)),$allowed_types))
 {
  $a_img[] = $imgfile;
  sort($a_img);
  reset ($a_img);
 }
}
// total image number
$totimg = count($a_img); 

for($x=0; $x < $totimg; $x++)
{
 $size = getimagesize($imgdir.'/'.$a_img[$x]);

 // do whatever
 $halfwidth = ceil($size[0]/2);
 $halfheight = ceil($size[1]/2);
 echo '


';
}