Creating Pages Around Images

Anon

Hi,

I want to put some images into a database, and display a thumbnail gallery of them in a table. When the thumbnail is clicked on, I want to dynamically put the image into a page created to work with each image. The images may have titles or captions that will be unique to each one.

Can someone help me get a start on this? I'm not sure where to begin since I'm very new to PHP (just bought my first couple of books on it) and haven't been able to figure this one out.

Thanks in advance.
Sue

Anon

You\'d be much better off starting by saving your image files to disk. Saving them to a database opens up a whole big can of worms that you should probably avoid if you\'re new to PHP.

To work with dynamic images and all that cool stuff, you\'ll have to read up on the \"Header()\" php command, as well as information about \"Content-Type: img/*\" information.

This task is at the crossroads of some tricky topics, but here\'s some example code that I wrote once upon a time...

<?PHP
/---------
Send the User a File
*---/
$suggested_name=$info[ \'user_file_name\'];
if(empty($suggested_name)) {
$suggested_name = \"unknown.file\";
}

 /*-**-**-**-**-**-**-**-**-**
 * Send HTTP File Header
 *-**-**-**/ 
Header(  \"Content-type: application/x-executable\" );
Header(  \"Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\\\"$suggested_name\\\"\" );

 /*-**-**-**-**-**-**-**-**-**
 * Send Data Through HTTP
 *-**-**-**/ 
$server_file_name=$info[ \'server_file_name\'];
readfile( $server_file_name );

..instead of \"application/x-executable\", you\'ll want to use \"img/jpg\", or \"img/gif\", etc...

HTH...

--Robert

Anon

Thanks for the code example and help, Robert. I'm going to begin by reading up where you've suggested, then maybe I can make some sense of all this!