Server Files for Craft CMS 3.x

Retrieve a list of files based on a specified folder path and extracts file information (optionally, currently onyl Exif image data)

Installation

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

cd /path/to/project

2. Then tell Composer to load the plugin:

composer require amkdev/server-files

3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Server Files.

Introduction

This little plugin retrieves a list of files based on a specified folder path.

This might be useful to you if

• You're running Craft 3.1 or above
• You need to retrieve files plus file information, not managed by Craft CMS, from a folder on your web server and return the output in Twig

Examples

Output the jpg files of a directory and the Exif data title and caption

Inside /uploads/images there are 3 image files:

22 Apr 22:54 image01.jpg
22 Apr 22:54 image02.jpg
22 Apr 22:54 icon.gif

In our Twig templates we set variables and give the server files a folder path for the search (required) and define (optionally) the information we need and regex pattern:

{% set settings =
    {
        path: 'uploads/images',
        pattern: '*.jpg',
        info: 'exif[title,caption]'
    }
%}
{% set images = craft.serverfiles.config(settings) %}

{% for image in images %}
    <img src="{{ image.file }}" 
         alt="{{ image.name }}"  
         title="{{ image.info.exif.title }}" 
         data-caption="{{ image.info.exif.caption }}">
{% endfor %}

Additionally you can use "full" {{ image.full }} to get the absolute path of a file.

This example Twig code would output:

<img src="/uploads/images/image01.jpg" 
     alt="image01.jpg" 
     title="Flower" 
     data-caption="A beautiful flower below the tree.">
<img src="/uploads/images/image02.jpg" 
     alt="image02.jpg" title="Tree" 
     data-caption="A tree in a field of flowers.">

If none of the configured Exif information is present, an empty string is returned for the data.

Disclaimer

This plugin is distributed free of charge under the MIT License. The author is not responsible for any data loss or issues resulting from use of the plugin.

Special Thanks

This plugin is based on GetFiles by You & Me Digital. Thanks for the simple and easy starting base.

Additionally this plugin uses PHPExif by Tom Van Herreweghe.