I have a small site at www.ssnellings.com, it's just a personal site that I want to start using to post personal photo's and stuff, nothing fancy.
I currently have the site coded in CSS using php includes for the header and righthand content. I understand the basics of both CSS and php, and have a small history in C++. I understand coding, just not the intricacies of php.
I want to create a three-tiered photo system: the first page will be a main listing of galleries. The second page will be the 'gallery' page, showing thumbnails of all the images. The third page will be accessed when you click on a thumbnail and will display the photo.
How do I use php to auto create a gallery, showing all the thumbnails in a particular directory? Then, when a thumbnail is clicked (a name like 1thumb.jpg) how do I get it to forward to a webpage template that will stick the actual image (1.jpg) in the template?
I'm not looking for a 'code handout,' I'm just having a hard time finding good tutorials to explain the best way to do this. I'm just looking for recommendations as to what I should look at first to get enough understanding to code something like this.
Thanks!
