Question

I am trying to create an image gallery, such as when you click an image in Getty Images

http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/Search.aspx?EventId=96396247&EditorialProduct=Sport

Image: http://tinypic.com/r/efffvs/6

I am just looking to get a next and previous for the gallery. Also that the details underneath are changed to match the image.

No database available.

Thanks for your help.

Laurence

Answer 1

Not familiar with Getty, but if you put your images in directories on your sever you can use PHP to get a directory listing and then loop through that listing to display the images.

$root = "/home/www/files";

                if ( $handle = opendir("{$root}/altered/") )
                {
                        ## SME 05/21/2009 LOOP THROUGH THE DIRECTORY AND GET A LIST OF FILES THAT ARE NOT '.' OR '..'
                        while( ( $file = readdir( $handle ) ) != FALSE )
                        {
                                if( $file != '.' && $file != '..')
                                {
                                        //DO SOMETHING WITH FILE
                                }
                        }
                        closedir($handle);
                }

If you want to get fancy with it you could even write an XML file with image information and put it on the server, then parse the XML when you load the images to supply meta data such as file names, who uploaded the file, etc.