image fade out to another image

sonhouse

Hi, am a noob here and web development in general. My wife wants a site and I have all the domain name and sever stuff (globat) done, now just waiting till I get the site ready to FTP it up.
She wants this opening dramatic image to morph (fade out and fade in to next) to the actual opening banner, which is a neat idea I think. What I am wondering is the best way to go about it. I like the idea of PHP being on the server so the viewer does not have to have anything special loaded up like flash and I want the site to be fairly fast to download even with dial ups. So I saw this PHP slideshow thing and wonder if I could use that in this case. My only concern is if I do that, will the slideshow thing disconnect itself from the next image so you can do all the normal stuff, links, feedback, email and such without interference with the slideshow effect? So after the second image, PHP backs out of the way so to speak? Does anyone have a full set of commands for such a thing? Thanks so much for your help.

bradgrafelman

Not sure what "PHP slideshow thing" you saw, but note that PHP is a server-side programming language (as you noted). Thus, anything it does is on the server-side.

In the end, you're going to have to use client-side scripting languages to accomplish client-side effects. The PHP slideshow application you saw probably used CSS, DHTML, Flash, etc. etc. to accomplish the client-side effects.

sonhouse

Ok, thanks for clearing that up. So how can I do that using PHP and CSS? or should I stay strictly on the web page for image transitions? Do you know of DHTML or CSS steps to do that?

Pikachu2000

There are just a ton of them in Javascript. Here's one that looks good upon cursory review. It appears the downloads are a script generator wizard compiled as .exe, though. So If you're using anything other than WinD'ohs, you might just Google it. It was at http://www.scriptocean.com/slideshow/