Displaying pictures

ernestop74

Hi, I'm building a page using php and I want the page displays part of a picture, no the whole picture. Any ideas?

Thx.

noimad1

I am not sure if I can think of a way to do this other than actually cropping the picture in a photo editor, then only displaying the cropped picture...

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ernestop74

The part(s) of the picture must be choosen by the user. That's why I'm not using a photo editor. 🙁

noimad1

Originally posted by ernestop74
The part(s) of the picture must be choosen by the user. That's why I'm not using a photo editor. 🙁

When you say are being chosen by a user, do you mean they are actually clicking on a part for it to be viewed?

If that is the case, what you could do is break up the photo in a photo editor into each section that would be clicked on.

Then create a button with a form with a hidden field called "showpieceone", that gets set equal to "yes" if the user clicks the button. Then have the form just post to the same page you are on.

Lastly, where you picture is being displayed, pull out the variable "showpieceone" and if it is set equal to yes then echo out the html to display that section of the picture.

Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

Do you have a sample of the way the page looks now so I can get a better idea of exactly what you are trying to do?

ernestop74

I think that idea you gave would work. But let me explain a little bit more: see the homepage of phpbuilder.com. Now what I want to do is this...

You see the <?phpbuilder?> gif. Well, what I want is show, let's say, just the <?php part of the picture instead the whole <?phpbuilder?> and so on. Got it?

Thx again.

noimad1

Originally posted by ernestop74
I think that idea you gave would work. But let me explain a little bit more: see the homepage of phpbuilder.com. Now what I want to do is this...

You see the <?phpbuilder?> gif. Well, what I want is show, let's say, just the <?php part of the picture instead the whole <?phpbuilder?> and so on. Got it?

Thx again.

I see. I guess the only way I can think to do it with php is the way above. If you wanted to do it instantaneous rather than having to refresh the page, then you would probably need to look into javascript since it is run server side and not clientside.