Automated image galley?!

phphelpneeder

Hi I'm trying to create a system where users can add their own images to a galley on my site. However, I dont want the image files uploaded to my webspace as it would get out of hand.

Therefore I came up with an idea where users submit the hyperlink to the image, and have it work in much the same way as the '[IMG]' tag on these forums. So I've set up a form which succesfully adds the image links to my mySQL database.

But how do I do the rest? I want a script that creates a gallery based on the image data, but the only ones i can find are those that have the user upload the actual file.

scriptkiddie

If you post the table structure here, I might be able to help you get started..

phphelpneeder

Well the database only includes one table thats to do with this, and that is siteUserImages - this includes 1 field (ImageAddress).

This is the code to the PHP file that adds the image addresses...

<html>

<body>



<?php

include("config.inc");

if ($submit) {

 // process form

 $db =  mysql_connect($dbhost,$dbuser,$dbpasswd);

 mysql_select_db($dbname,$db);

 $sql = "INSERT INTO siteUserImages (ImageAddress) VALUES ('$ImageAddress')";

 $result = mysql_query($sql);

 echo "Thank you! Image Added.\n";

} else{



 // display form



 ?>



 <form method="post" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF?>">

 Image:<input type="Text" name="ImageAddress"><br>

 <input type="Submit" name="submit" value="Enter information">

 </form>



 <?php



} // end if



?>



</body>



</html>

phphelpneeder

anyone?

rontgoff

That looks fine. Is it not working.

I have many sites running a online gallery and some of the photos come from all over the net.

To display a photo from another site you do this:
Say $photo is in your db and =s http://google.com/logo.jpg

$photo = "http://google.com/logo.jpg";

print "<IMG SRC=$photo>";

That is all there is to display a pic from another site. Rember it must have [url]http://[/url] in front otherwise it won't work.

DoD

I use erg_replace() to remove the [url]http://[/url] at the start of any url submitted to avoid http://http:// or a simple www. - both which dont work:

such as:

erg_replace ("http://", "", $image)

echo "<img src='http://$image'>";

check its right tho before you use it at php.net

rontgoff

this would work
ereg_replace ("www", "http://www", $image)

ElMongol

As an aside, make sure they have register_globals on, or rather, assume they don't (a wise thing) and change your condition to:

if ($_POST['submit'])

ElMongol

Oh, str_replace would be the fastest way to sort out the [url]http://[/url] bit in this instance, by the way.