php echo <img> using name attribute

[andy106]

Hi everyone, I am trying to make php swap a tumbnail image from a table.

so here is what I have:
<table>

<tr>
<td><img id="img1 name="img1" src="/img1.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img id="img2 name="img2" src="img2.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img id="img3 name="img3" img3.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
so I need PHp to be able to use the name attribute to echo one of the images and swap the images on refresh. ( or how can i even just echo one of the images) the swapping image would be a tumbnail so the size need to be reduced as well. ( i can do that from the html.)

Thanks

[Weedpacket]

First of all, the name attribute is deprecated in favour of id. Since you already have the id attribute you might as well just drop the name.

Secondly: PHP doesn't know anything about your HTML - it's just a big lump of text that it sent out to the browser at some time in the past and then forgot about - so it doesn't know anything about any tag's attributes.

But assuming that in your PHP script you have a variable $image in which you have the name/id of the image you want displayed:

echo '<td>';
switch($image)
{
    case 'img1': $id = 'img1'; $src = '/img1.jpg'; break;
    case 'img2': $id = 'img2'; $src = '/img2.jpg'; break;
    // ....
}
echo "<img id='$id' src='$src' />";
echo '</td>';

For the examples given there's some redundancy that suggests further simplifications may be possible.

[andy106]

Hi Weedpacket and thanks for your response. what I was actually hoping to accomplish was to be able to have php actually load any image within the table. so lets say that I add an id on my table called "img" I would like php to resize every image inside the table "img " so I can echo it, also it should be able to swap the images withhin "img".

Thanks for all your help.