read a directories' files, and create echo HTML?

iomatic

i have a foo/ directory and a foobar/ directory, and a barfoo/
directory in root/

for each directory in root, i'll put x or y or z amount of images in
each directory. then, have the php write 01.html with the correct
links to a) main image, b) thumb images and prev/fwd links.

we could have separate php files to handle the drawing of the new
sequenced .html files in each directory (probably best to pass
variables), because they're slightly different, or one to rule them
all (sounds like too much work).

then, the syntax would need to be sorted out (so index.html has a link
to foo/foo.php?=foo01) would work correctly and draw up 01.html with
the correct images, being that index.html would probably have to have
hardcoded variable-passing links. eh?

it's sweet, 'cause updating would be fast. upload and delete image
files. done. I mean, I know that you could go the database/XML route,
but sigh.

no one's thought of this? c'mon!

I'm thinking:

a) Genercised back/forward buttons:
page 01.html contains links to other pages in its respective "foo"
directory (with the same numbering sequence). The next page
link/button will go to the next page in sequence. The idea here is to
use a generic next/forward script that can be repurposed for all the
pages, without having to manually create hard-coded links. Smart eh?
🙂 OK, lazy, really. Then, of course, if there's nothing at the end of
the sequence, head on back to 01.html (Would it be easier to start the
naming convention with 00.html?)

b) pulling the right images at the right time.
There's a "main" image on page 01.html. it's called 01.png (or better,
01_unique_name.png). Now, there are three placeholders for three other
images; we want to get: 02.png, 03.png, 04.png and drop them in their
placeholders, so each of them link to 02.html, 03.html 04.html, etc.

Same with page 02.html, except this time, drop in 01.png, 03.png, etc.
You get? Same thing, make a genercised script, so that you simply drop
in 01.png or whatever image, and the script does the rest. make sense?

echo 'thanks';

cahva

You could just have said: Is there a script that enables me to put images to folder and it woud automatically create thumbs for them...er like a gallery. 🙂

Well yes, I and probably many more have done that. You can find my script here (its Finnish page but I have commented the code in English).

That version is last updated on 2004-04-22 and I havent developed it further. I would have done it differently nowdays but it seems to work nicely for people(I get A LOT of emails that praise how good that code is working for them.. Personally I hate that code 😉 ).

iomatic

Hey thanks.

I would've said that, but of course thought through the specific requirements I need. It's pretty much the functionality; thank you. I think what I'd like to do though, is a lot less, so I'm stripping away 😉 the code.

I'm tripping up on a few things-- I'm building the thumbs manually (because they are masked and cropped in Photoshop a specific way). Using Post is interesting vs. just a href=. So, I still need to:

a) grab the directory of thumbs and put them each in some kind of individual div on the HTML page (still a few steps away for me, even.), and then put a main image in a bigger container.

b) add navigation buttons/links to another page with the same big image/little thumbs layout, based on what page we just built (so that previous wraps to the last page, if you're on the first page, etc.) I guess you sort have the functionality there.

Really, I want the code to do the work, upload thumbs and images named 01.png, 02.png, etc., change as necessary, and be done with it. You know?

People also need to compile GD to call:
imageCreateTrueColor()

iomatic

Short of writing the script for me (though I wouldn't mind 😛), could someone point to the functions I'll need to study and also how to implement them?

So, readdir() and get the variables listed thus. Right? Um, I'm not really great at this stuff..

Need to figure out what page we are running. 01? 02? OK, so, now we need to use that to build the correct links to the (2 or 3) image thumbnails, and of course the main image.

Then, deducing by what page we're on, and how many pages there ought to be, a previous link would link back to 04.html if we're on 01.html (not really, because this would be created dynamically with php, probably ?page=04 or some such) if there are four thumbnails and four pages.

Of course we need error checking to spit out the right things if we have the wrong amount of images and thumbs.

Wow. Maybe I should just pay someone :\

thanks for listening.