Hello,
I’m porting a website to zola and I was wondering if there is a way to iterate over the files of a directory in the source tree (e.g. in static).
The use case is to implement a statically generated image gallery: a directory will contain all the images of the gallery, with a loop I want to iterate over all the files of that directory, produce the thumbnails and link to the full resolution image.
Is it possible to do so? I couldn’t find a way.
Thanks!
Just as an information, the solution I’m using so far is to use load_data with a file generated automatically.
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Having something like hugo does (readDir IIRC) would be nicer I think.
It’s not really possible right now. I’m going to work on Unify the usage of `path` parameter in functions · Issue #977 · getzola/zola · GitHub next and an equivalent to readDir could make sense to add.
Would you only use it to read dirs from static?
Well, not necessary only from static and actually for the same use case (gallery) being able to access co-located data would be great, too.
In hugo I used to have shortcodes for adding a gallery to a page, so it also makes sense, to me, to have a directory that contains the page for a topic and the gallery/galleries to be displayed in that page.
You can already do that in the content with colocated assets and a gallery example: Image processing | Zola
Oh wow! I didn’t know that 
I could use that, I don’t have a compelling need to place images in static.
This being said, having a similar function to access static could be useful.
Thank you!
Sorry to bump this, but I found this topic on Google and I’m wondering if such function was added? I wanted to create a gallery on my index page, and I currently have to list all the stuff myself. Using assets doesn’t seem to work reliably since index is a section, not a page
No functions like that has been added.