What are some alternative methods to achieve the goal of generating HTML pages with the latest images from a directory in PHP?

To generate HTML pages with the latest images from a directory in PHP, one alternative method is to use the scandir() function to get a list of files in the directory, filter out non-image files, sort them by modification time, and then display them in the HTML page. 

<?php
// Directory where images are stored
$directory = 'images/';

// Get list of files in the directory
$files = array_diff(scandir($directory), array('..', '.'));

// Filter out non-image files
$images = array_filter($files, function($file) {
    return preg_match('/\.(jpg|jpeg|png|gif)$/i', $file);
});

// Sort images by modification time
array_multisort(array_map('filemtime', $images), SORT_DESC, $images);

// Generate HTML to display images
foreach ($images as $image) {
    echo '<img src="' . $directory . $image . '" alt="' . $image . '" />';
}
?>

Keywords

PHP HTML image directory generation

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