Creating picture gallery using php

Anon

I am trying to create a picture gallery using PHP. How does that work in PHP vis a vis HTML.

Anon

Troy,

Do you want the pictures themselves in a database or just information (caption, photographer etc.). The latter is fairly easy. I just put this together yesterday: http://globalflyfisher.com/reports/austria

The database is simple and the pictures reside in a dir on the server as thumbprint and large photo. The thumbrpint could be done on-the-fly, but it takes time and is of inferior quality.

I add a new picture by uploading the pictures and adding the record to the database.

There are two PHP-files: the overview (thumbprint) page and the single pic page.

The same database was used in: http://globalflyfisher.com/reports/flyfair2000/allpics.php3m and all related pages.

I can share snippets of the code if you are interested.

Martin

Anon

Hi, I'd like to see the snippet.

I got the thumbnail page up, but I can't figure the second page.

thanks.
elisa

Anon

The second page has changed name and is now on http://globalflyfisher.com/reports/flyfair2000/allpics.php.

There is no finished and ready-to-run snippet as such, but I'd like to share some code pieces and advice.

Martin

Anon

Yes, I went to the site and saw that it had changed.

What I don't understand is how to take the images in the thumbnail and have them come up on a new page.

I have the thumbnail page set up wether it's right for what I'm trying to do I don't know.

http://www.mykillercreations.com/albums/seaworld/ <-- thumbnails

Currently when you select a picture it will only bring up the jpg

http://www.mykillercreations.com/albums/seaworld/index_a.php <-- this one tries to call up the picture but i don't know if this is set up correctly.

Anon

Here is how I have done it in two different ways:

In both cases I have the pictures on the server in two versions. One is the full size picture - like seal.jpg - and one is a thumbprint - smallseal.jpg.

1)
I scan the directory for all files called small*.jpg and get the names of the thumbs to show. Then I trip the 'small' from the name and hence get the name for the big picture. This name I use as a parameter for the PHP file, which shows the big picture like big.php?show=seal.jpg. In this file I look for the big picture, get its size data with image_size() and display it.
I have also made an incarnation of this function that looks for a small txt file, which contains the caption. This file is called seal.jpg.txt in the abovce example. If it exists, the content is read and displayed as a caption. If not, there's no caption.

2)
I have all picture data in a database. It contains a lot of information about each picture including the base name for the picture - seal in the above example. I then generate the filenames from this name by adding .jpg and small for the thumbprint. I can then make the thumbprint page by traversing the database and showing all thumbprints.
In this version I just refer to the picture by a database id number. The big.php file will then be called with one argument like in big.php?id=123. This script will then get info on picture number 123 from the database, generate the file name, get description, caption and other stuff from the database and display the picture.

Hope this is clear and can help you.

Martin