Calling an external image from a jpg filename

[Lchris006]

Hi there, this may sound complicated but im sure its very easy to the right person.

I am using SPGM (Simple Picture Gallery Manager) http://spgm.sourceforge.net/ which is great except it only lets me use pictures that are on my server, I dont have mysql so I have no way of making links etc.

I thought that if in the folders the filename was something like ext_image.jpg then the script could replace the ext_ with a url and somehow display the picture in the gallery, I hope I make sense. I guess a function will have to be written, thanks in advance

Chris

[thessoro]

i think that SPGM at one moment will do something like this

function hacer_dir ($directory) {  // return the name of the files in an array
        $d=dir ("$directory");
        $n=0;
        while ($entry=$d->read()) {
                $archivos[$n]=$entry;
                $n++;
        }
        $d->close();
        return $archivos;
}       

in the moment you have this array, simply you have to do string manipulation which each element of the array:

foreach (hacer_dir("./directory") as $onefile) {
     if (substr ($onefile,0,3)=="ext") $cad="http://domain.com/";
     echo "<img src=".$cad.$onefile.">";
}

you have many possibilities, maybe you can specify which domain the file is located depending on the 3 first characters:
$cad=substr ($onefile,0,3); and then search this 3 characters in a database to look what domain they relate to.