Large image from thumb into formatted page

PJNEW

I have a page that produces results in a table wuth a thumbnail description etc. No problem. However, I want to be able to click on the thumbnail (which is already linked to a larger image) and for the larger image plus description etc to appear in a page that has been formatted like the rest of my site. This is a snippet of code that calls up my results page, and I understand that I am only allowing a link to an image at the moment. I just can't work out how to do the above.

 "<TD width=20% align=center><A HREF='$image'><IMG SRC='$thumb'></A></TD>\n";
   echo "<TD width=60%><font size=+1 font face=arial,verdana font color=white><ul>$description</ul></font>\n";
   echo "<TD width=20%><font size=+1 font face=arial,verdana font color=white><ul>$dim</ul></font></TD>\n";

I think the bits are self explanatory except the $image is the large image🙂
I would really appreciate some help. You can see what I am on about at http://www.infinitih.co.uk/test/seating.html
Just enter 'chair' in the search. Don't worry about the look its not finished yet🙂

sarah

You could make the link go to a separate page that is formated to look like your site.
Either...

1) Pass the relevent information in the URL and then display it on the next page where you want it...
<A HREF='nicelyformattedpage.php?image=$image&description=$description&dim=$dim'>

2)Just pass a unique ID for the image and then query for the information when you get to the nicelyformattedpage.php
<A HREF='nicelyformattedpage.php?ID=234'>

PJNEW

Please forgive new boy. I take it that the unique ID would be the index line for that particular image in the database. Or are we talking about a completely different auto-generated function that I should go and learn (I did do a quick search but didn't see anything 🙂 )
Thanks for your help

sarah

You're on top of it...if each record in the db has a field that is unique (like an ID index) then just pass that on in your variable and perform the query on the next page.

PJNEW

OK, I did that like this

   echo "<TD width=20% align=center><A HREF='nicelyformattedpage.php?ID=$imageindex'><IMG SRC='$thumb'></A></TD>\n";

but the ID= was empty. It did not pass the image index. Have I the correct syntax?

Thanks

sarah

Was it empty in the url or did it not work when you called it on the next page?

PJNEW

Sorry Sarah,

I had not spelt out what $imageindex was so of course it could not find it. Now sorted. All I got to do is go and format a nice page.🙂

Patrick

sarah

That's the easy part. 🙂