Need some direction

[biffboy1126]

Alright, I have done some basic coding and such and now I need some assistance/direction on one of the last major projects for my father's site.

What I want to do is have a picture randomizer which will scan the images directory, cross check with the thumbnails subdirectory to see if there is another image w/ the same file name + a t at the end, and if so, echo one of the images.

I have an idea as to how the second half of this script should go, where I should generate an array to contain all the file names of valid photos and then randomly select one of the items in that array (there should only be about 5 - 10 items) and echo it w/ predefined properties.

The reason I want to use a thumbnails directory is so that I will be able to 1. tell what files to use, and 2. have a condensed image to use as a link which when clicked will open up the full-sized photo.

How should I start this script? Any and all help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[planetsim]

Well firstly get the files from both images and thumbnail directories. Both being in different arrays so

$thumbnail etc i think thats fairly obvious from there work out which image in the images directory match up with the thumbnail array.

So maybe somthing like this

//$thumbnail is thumbnail array
//$images is image array

for ($i=0;$i<sizeof($images);$i++) {
   if (!in_array($images[$i],$thumbnail)) {
     //not in the array delete if nessacary
  } else {
    //its in the array leave or do something
  }
}

The code below checks the $thumbnail array from a value from $images[$i] you can from there also check if the thumbnails match up with the $images but that isnt required

if (!in_array($images[$i],$thumbnail))

Once you have your two arrays built up its time to randomise

<?php
srand((float) microtime() * 10000000);
//we wont only one thumbnail
$randthumbNail = array_rand($input, 1);
echo $input[$randthumbNail['0']] . "\n";

Use this as a guide as i did not test this

Goodluck 🙂