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Is it possible to search a server folder containing image and video files that were previously uploaded via ftp and then loop through those files in the entry template?

Each entry has a unique Log ID number field which is also part of the image or video filename.

Example:

  • Log ID: 12345
  • Image filename: 12345-[8374]-img-01.jpg
  • Image filename: 12345-[8374]-img-02.jpg
  • Video filename: 12345-[8374]-vid-01.mp4
  • etc...

Conceptually on the template page...

  • Grab the entry LogID field (ex. "12345")
  • Search the media server folder for all filenames that begin with the LogID
  • Display all of the found images and videos

I found this question which is very similar but I don't have the skills to write a plugin.

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  • Any reason you couldn't Settings->Tools->Update Asset Indexes after every FTP upload and deal with the uploads as proper Craft Assets?
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Jul 6, 2017 at 23:23
  • @BradBell do you mean then open each entry and attach the uploads? If that's what you mean, I could, but we upload about 200 files every week for about 50 preexisting entries. I was hoping that there may be another way to do it automatically.
    – Lori
    Commented Jul 7, 2017 at 1:10
  • Well... there is, but it's going to require a plugin. :) I can't think of any other way.
    – Brad Bell ♦
    Commented Jul 7, 2017 at 3:57
  • @BradBell I wonder if I misunderstood your initial suggestion about using "Update Asset Indexes" tool. If I index the files so they exist in the database, they can be searched, correct? So in my template, could I grab the LogID field value from the page entry and then used that value to search the assets folder for filenames that contain that LogID?
    – Lori
    Commented Jul 8, 2017 at 14:12

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I figure out a solution thanks to Brad's suggestion to update the asset indexes. That allowed me to find all assets on the server that contained a partial match to my LogID number which I am passing in a URL string.

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