Urgent Help needed! Image gallery assistance required!

bleedingmascara

As part of a college project, I am teaching myself php and showing my learning in a creative final brief to which I have chosen to do an image gallery. however, I am coming slightly unstuck..

In my brief it says I have to be able to comment on the image that i am uploading, therefore when a user clicks on a thumbnail, i want them to be able to navigate to a new page where the image is shown in full size with a small commenting form underneath for them to fill in.

I've cracked the uploader and showing the thumbnails from the correct directory, however, no matter what I do, I can't get the commenting part of the website sorted.

the website that i have done so far is available here.

any assistance with this matter would be gratefully received.

djjjozsi

store the image names in a database, and after you isnert the image rename it into a hashed format (using md5 or sha1) to prevent the image names from special characters. If you insert a new item into the database, you get an ID number, you can rename the uploaded files into that (using the thumbnails). So you have more then one method to store the files. The previous is better, becouse then you can't owerwrite the existing filenames.

If you rename the images, you prevent your server from the unwanted uploaded scripts. If i upload a .php file, i can easily run it in your server (if you don't check the correct file-type. are you checking it?... it is called security hole)

Then using a comments table could solve your problem. The comments connected with this images table (foreign key is the image_ID )

After you uploaded the images, create a php file which can send the image to the browser using the readfile function, you can make the images visible with this php file.

You can get ideas in this forum how to go in a right direction, but nobody like to solve others homeworks 🙂

shawty

As well as djjjozsi's comments you also need to consider your image display.

As you have it at the moment your generating a link directly to the image file, so when you click on the thumb, you load the resulting image direct into the browser.

Instead, you should create a PHP file , that loads and displays the image, and puts the form underneath (which you can make as a normal HTML form) , construct your link something like the following :

display.php?picture=myimage.jpg

then create a file called 'display.php' to do the work for you. I'm not going to explain how to put this file together, but as you've already managed to do a gallery of thumbs, it's really not that difficult.

Cheers

Shawty