php image flip

Astonished_Man

I have a real estate script written in php that I have modified for my needs. It has a photo section where the thumbnails are displayed and you click on the thumbnail to replace the large image with the new. The way they have written this, though, is by exploding the images from the database into an array, and creating a loop to display the thumbnails as a link which passes the variables from the array through the url and when the page reloads the new image appears as the large image.

The problem with this is that it reloads the page at the top and then you have to scroll down to see the larger pic.

I would like to create a function like you would in a javascript rollover. I'm assuming it is possible but can't seem to land the right code.

If anyone know's how to pull off an image flip in php I think I could apply it to my application. So .... anybody know?

bpat1434

PHP is a server language, not a client side language. So PHP can't do anything like Java can. You know that Java will do what you want, you can use that. Or, you could use Flash to create your image gallery (with a PHP backend to create the arrays and such). It's also completely possible to use a named anchor type of URL:

http://www.domain.com/view.php?pic=1294581058#view

Then, in your code, just before you have the "<img" tag, just put this there:

<a name="view"></a><img src="

~Brett

Astonished_Man

Yeah, I wasn't thinking about it that way.

For a number of reasons it would be better to make it work with Javascript rather than Flash. At least for now.

The missing link is this. Maybe you know how to make this connection.

In the PHP part it has already established connection to the database and created the array with:
$MyImages = explode("|", $a1[image]);

Is there any way to pass this array to my javascript function where:
var myPix = new Array()

If I could get the array to javascipt I know what to do with it from there.

Installer

Try passing the unexploded string as a cookie, then use js document.cookie and split to create the array.

_theworks

flag javascript use CSS im sure stu has an example for you cssplay.co.uk

bpat1434

Well, the CSS can be even more complicated than simple Java. CSS also requires a little bit of a better grasp of pseudo-elements and hacks for IE (since it sucks).

Java would be the simple answer to get what they want done. It'd be a quick fix for now; however, it would not work if they have java disabled.

CSS would be the complex, yet better answer. It would take some learning to make it just the way they want it, but can be far more usefull as it is "fully" supported in most modern browsers.

~Brett