photo slideshow

bardell38

hello everyone

i need to make like a javascript photo slideshow for my fraternity and I need help in trying to set the coding up. what i want to have is have a slideshow that counts the number of views each image has. also, i want to have an upload form with it so any brother can upload their photos. but i want each image to be deleted after a certain number of views. the trick is once someone uploads a picture, how can i make it so the database and the slideshow automatically recognize that a new photo is made and incorporate it into the slideshow?

any ideas would be appreciated. thanks.

bardell38

ooo yea and my post wasnt just one question i need help in setting all of this up not just the question at the end. thanks.

leatherback

hm.. This sort of question would result in someone asking for a consultance fee..

I can build it for you if you like 😃

In any case.. I would start with the manual at http://www.php.net and read some tutorials

bardell38

but what im trying to say is that lets just say that you visit my page and is watching the slideshow. i upload a new photo on that slideshow during the same time you are viewing it, is there any way that the photo i added can be part of the slideshow without the user having to refresh the page? and how can i track how many times an image has been viewed in a slideshow? when i delete an image and its id was one, how can i make it in the database so that id number 2 becomes 1?

leatherback

bardell38 wrote:
but what im trying to say is that lets just say that you visit my page and is watching the slideshow.

1) i upload a new photo on that slideshow during the same time you are viewing it, is there any way that the photo i added can be part of the slideshow without the user having to refresh the page?
2) and how can i track how many times an image has been viewed in a slideshow?

3) when i delete an image and its id was one, how can i make it in the database so that id number 2 becomes 1?

1) Depends on how you do your slideshow. If you use ajax to get the url for the next image in the show, yes

2) If you use ajax to update the slideshow, you can when you retrieve the next URL from the database update and site your count = count+1

3) You should not do this, as you would risk corrupting the data.

Horizon88

NogDog has a good demo of an ajax-y photo slideshow on his personal website, charles-reace.com, if I recall correctly.

bardell38

yea i like that code a lot but im still confused on what i should do using the picture view counter and the auto-delete after a certain number of views?

bardell38

okay i got it all down now what script i want to use but im having trouble incorporating the photos with the script itself

function getImageArray()
{
$images = array();
$cwd = getcwd();
chdir($_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']);
$images = glob($this->imageDir.'/*.{'.$this->suffixes.'}', GLOB_BRACE);
chdir($cwd); // back to original directory
return($images);
}

thats teh script from charles reace's website but if i were to have photos stored in a photo in a database with more information. how would i incorporate that into the script?