caching/Preloading images

siege

Im not sure if PHP is the right solution. I would like to be able to press on a link and preload all images in a single directory. I do not need to see any visual representation of this. I have a bottleneck and I thought preloaing the images would be a good idea. For an stance a link could preload everything in:

http://myReallyFakeSite.com/store/store_images/

This way when they actually request the images, they would load up quicker.

ClarkF1

You could use the prefetch tag but as far as I know it doesn't work in IE

You could loop through for each image........

siege

Thanks but I can't through out that many viewers, IE is still the number browser used on our site, I think I need a different solution. Im looking to not to have to list every image separately, rather just name the folder and have it load everything thats in that directory - to be more dynamic. I dont want to have to update this everytime I add new pics.

dougal85

http://www.netmechanic.com/news/vol6/css_no18.htm

siege

thanks again but you still have to manually list all the pictures, which is cumbersome. also another thing is that the naming convention of the images is not controlled by me, so looping through them is not an option.

ClarkF1

No you don't..........you could read the names of the images files into an array using something like glob() and then loop through the array producing the necessary code

This would run each time the page is loaded so you'd have any new images included

siege

If you dont mind I completely new to this as my expertise lies more in AS. Im guessing I should start off using a function, so that I can call it from my AS like:

preloadDir ();
function preloadDir (){
foreach (glob("*") as $filename) {
   echo "$filename size " . filesize($filename) . "\n";
}
}

Is that right so far? I know its far from being close. IM not sure where to take it from here.