Question

does anyone have an idea on how I could capture the image id when a user clicks the next / previous button in Fancybox? I like how Fancybox changes depending on the size of the image so I prefer to use this over some of the other galleries that I have seen. Has anyone successfully done this? The site is in PHP.

Answer 1

The general idea would be to “proxy” your images by a PHP script.

This script would:

1. add 1 to the view count of the image
2. serves the image to the browser (instead of serving an HTML page as usual)

You would then update the src attribute of your pictures img tag :

<img src="mypicture.png"/>

would become

<img src="view_picture.php?picture=1"/>

Note that you must be careful and not authorize a filename in the picture parameter and/or carrefully check that the user is not trying to see a file that you don’t want to show him (think view_picture.php?picture=../.htpasswd )