Need help merging php and html

[dbell5]

I have a site with a couple of hundred images and sizeable text blocks associated with them. To minimize load time, I display thumbnails that link to the full sized image. All these are in tables, generally three to a row. An example:

<a href="foo.jpg"><img src="foo_t.jpg" alt="Foo!" height=188 width=234></a>

This works, but presents some maintenance problems. I just picked up a neat little script from the B&T site, to output a resized image (attached file). I hard-code the thumb height (all are 188px) and let the width adjust.

<a href="foo.jpg"><img src="resize.php?path=foo.jpg" alt="Foo!" height=188></a>

This does work, but I would like to 1) somehow return the computed thumb width, so I can have the html explicitly define it, and 2) only enter the image file name (and path) once. Sort of like:

image.php?path=foo.jpg,alt="Foo!"

and have the php script emit the full <a> tag as in the first example. Am I hoping for too much form the php/html interface? Any suggestions on how to proceed?

Thanks!

Dave

[euph]

I don't think you will be able to specify the computed width when resizing the image in that fashion. There may be some Javascript magic that could be done, but thats beyond my knowledge. Also it may be a little inefficent to resize every image everytime the page loads (especially if there are hundreds).

Without knowing how you work its difficult to make any alternative suggestions.

A general one would be to create an image uploader that automatically creates thumbnails for images you upload. Then create a script to display them, this script could then get any widths/heights required and insert them into the final html.