Show messages with Next and Previous

Hi,

I have hundreds of images in my gallery and I want a gallery.php page to display the images with a Next and Previous paging buttons.

I don't want to load all images as slideshow because this will kill the page load performance so just a Next and Previous will do.

My images has a primary key image_id and also image_guid but the url I want to show is using the guid like this:

www.mydomain.com/[-----Image guid here-----].png

because the image is saved with the guid file name like this:

[-----Image guid here-----].png

How can I do this please?

Thanks,
Jassim

You can do
< a href='www.mydomain.com?pic=picname'>next</a>
and then $_GET['pic'] but you must know that

You then have to access the list of images (are they in database?) and get the previous and next to put the names in your button links

Or Ajax it and get the images on click - might be neater that way as Javascript can give you a cross fade

It should be apparent that the key is to determine, for a given image, what the NEXT or PREV image is.

You have to somehow define a sequence for your images.

If they are listed in a database, you have some flexibility and the database can be helpful in providing sorting/ordering.

If you just have a bunch of files on your server's file system, you might sort by filename or last modified time, etc.