Anyone willing to help?

[mdm]

I have been trying, unsucessfully, to find a image gallery script to suit my friends needs. He needs a script that will show thumbnails for all images in a directory, creating them if they are not present in a subdirectory, that when clicked show the full sized image in a new pop up window.

Having very limited time and resources just now, I've tried to come up with a solution. The pseudocode for which appears below.

Can anyone out there help me flesh this out to a proper working script?

mDm

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define popUp Javascript method    //opens new window with just close button,
                                  //passed image location and size on call

$picDir        //directory where images are stored
$thumbDir      //directory where thumbnail images are stored

picArray[]     //array storing image file locations
thumbArray[]   //array storing thumbnail locations

columns = 5    //perhaps change to be parameter in function call?

open $picDir

while (next file != false){
    read next file    //possibly read sizes and store in array for thumbnails?
    if (picture file extension) add location to picArray[]
}
close directory

bubble sort picArray[] by modified date

while (items left in picArray[] != false){

open $thumbDir

if (thumbnail != false){
    create thumbnail using gd2image library
    save to thumbDir
    store location in thumbArray[]
} else store thumbnail location in thumbArray[]

close $thumbDir

print HTML for 'start of table' using Int variable
while (items left in picArray[] != false){
    for (i<columns ; i=0 ; i++){
        print HTML for 'new table column'
        print thumbArray[i]
        add link to pic array[i] using JavaScript popUp method
        close HTML for column
    }
    HTML for 'add new table row'
}
print HTML for 'end of table'

[superwormy]

No idea how to create thumbnails, but you could instead just set the size of the image to a set size in your HTML.

Also:

www.php.net/opendir ( open the directory )
www.php.net/readdir ( read all the files in a directory )
www.php.net/closedir ( close the directory )

www.php.net/getimagesize ( get the image size )

Get to work! :-)

[adamgeorge]

If you have the appropriate image extensions compiled in with PHP, you can use those functions to create thumbnails on the fly so to speak of larger images.

If you do a forum search, there's heaps of threads on this topic.

Also look here. You will find all the information you need just by looking in the manual http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.image.php

good luck
-Adam 🙂

[mdm]

Thanks for the pointers, I'll be banging my head against this all evening so I'll be back if theres any major problems.

My main problem today had been lack of net access. Its pretty hard to piece together the php when there's nowhere to test it out.

mDm