How to find all files in a folder by pattern?

Question

PHP

Pictures are stored in the folder template - [name-number.jpg]
number - a number from 0 to unknown It is
necessary in php to display all the pictures on the screen for a specific name
To be honest, I don’t even know where to start, I haven’t dealt with regular expressions yet.
As I understand it, you need to use a regular expression to search for images in a folder and display the search result in a php loop.

Answer 1

First scan the directory: scandir
Then iterate over the resulting array in foreach .
You can do it without regular expressions if you don't know them:

$fileName = 'name-23.jpg';
$fragments = explode( '-' , $fileName, 2 );
// в результате в $fragments[0] будет попадать `name`

Answer 2

Use shell tools quickly and conveniently:

$output = shell_exec("find /path/to/dir -iname filename* -exec basename {} \;");
$fileNames = explode("\n", $output);

array_pop($fileNames); //последний элемент будет пуская строка