Hello there!
I'm making a page with some flash games, but, since in the past will be many games it will be very bored to add all those games one by one on the site. I know that using php we can get the list of the files in the directory and i know that, using this method, i can display all the games on the directory to the visitors page but, i was thinking if you can help me to add an image to each game that correspond with the name of the game. Ex:
In "games" folder we will have games: play1.swf, play2.swf, play3.swf
and, in "images" directory we will have images: play1.jpg, play2.jpg, play3.jpg.
To display the list of the games, can we make a combination of jpg files with swf files? Play1.jpg will be the image of play1.swf game and, when a visitor clicks on the image, will be redirect to a page named ex: playgames.php?play1
Can someone help me on this? It will be a big help for my project.
Thank you very much and waiting for your reply!

If yuo can guarantee there'l always be a corresponding image file, just use basename or pathinfo to get the name component and build the string for the image tag and the link.

I would probably use a plugin architecture where you have a directory for all your Flash games, and inside are sub-folders for each game.

Each game folder would hold two or three files -- game.swf, icon.jpg, and optionally, a text or php file that will hold basic game information.

Each game you add has this same structure and you just drop the whole folder into it. No numbering required.

Now it is a matter of getting a list of directories (the directory name can be the game name if wanted). It is pretty simple to get the icon and game link without having to pre-number all the files.

Create a file and call it whatever you want, put this in the file:

PHP Code:

<?php

if ($handle = opendir('images')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {
            $filename = explode('.', $file);
            $filename = $filename[0];
            echo "<a href='playgame.php?game=$filename'><img src='images/$file' alt='' width='150' /></a>";
            echo '<br /><br />';
        }
    }
    closedir($handle);
}

?>

Next create a file called "playgame.php" and put this in there:

PHP Code:

<?php

$game = htmlentities($_GET['game']).'.swf';

?>

<object width="550" height="400">
    <param name="movie" value="games/<?php echo $game; ?>">
    <embed src="games/<?php echo $game; ?>" width="550" height="400"></embed>
</object>

In the directory you put these 2 files you need 2 folders, one called "images" and one called "games". For the script to work the games must all be in .swf format, the images can be in any format. I couldn't attach the working example since file is too large, you can download it here:

http://rapidshare.com/files/448351168/mygames.zip

Thank you bro ... I'll try and update you.
Thanks again