public function index()
{
//TODO: extract code below from controller :) 

$manuals = [];
$filesInFolder = \File::files('manual');

foreach($filesInFolder as $path)
{
    $manuals[] = pathinfo($path);
}

return View::make('manuals.index')->with('manuals', $manuals);
}

pathinfo gives you:

{
    "dirname":"file_path",
    "basename":"file_name.file_extension",
    "extension":"file_extension",
    "filename":"file_name"
}

Awesome, thanks for quick answer!

I pretty much need something like this, but whatever I try it just gives me the following error:

htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

in your view you're probably trying to echo an array instead of a string.

RafaelDeJongh said:

I pretty much need something like this, but whatever I try it just gives me the following error:

htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

astroanu said:

in your view you're probably trying to echo an array instead of a string.

RafaelDeJongh said:

I pretty much need something like this, but whatever I try it just gives me the following error:

htmlspecialchars() expects parameter 1 to be string, array given

Seems it had to do something regarding the whole parameters of the array being $files[$file]["dirname"] rather than $files[$file][0]

And the key that I had to set for the foreach also seemed to mess things around a bit more.

Currently have this setup to loop through all the files in a given directory:

@foreach($files as $file=>$f)
@php($filePath=$files[$file]["dirname"]."\\".$files[$file]["basename"])
	<a href="{{$filePath}}" title="{{url('/')}}\{{$filePath}}" class="recImg"><img src="{{$filePath}}" alt="{{$files[$file]['filename']}}"/></a>
@endforeach

Any suggestions would be welcomed as I'm pretty new to all of this :)

I would create a collection and map the urls in the controller before sending that to the view.