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Asked: 2026-05-26T19:19:52+00:00

I am trying to make a photo gallery in php + mysql. The URL

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I am trying to make a photo gallery in php + mysql.

The URL viewphoto.php?id=143 shows photo 143.
In the navigation menu, I want to display the previous two photos in that album, and the next two.

I thought of using:

$temp_id = $id - 2;
mysql_query("SELECT id, photo FROM photos WHERE album = {$album} AND id >= {$temp_id} LIMIT 5");

But that didn’t work, because photo’s from different albums could have the ids preceding and succeeding the one of the viewed photo.

Does anyone know how I could do this?

Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’ve been dealing with this issue myself and I never found an elegant solution to the problem, I ended up doing it in two queries:

    // next
mysql_query("SELECT id, photo FROM photos WHERE album = {$album} AND id > {$id} ORDER BY id ASC LIMIT 2");

// prev
mysql_query("SELECT id, photo FROM photos WHERE album = {$album} AND id <= {$id} ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 3");

    Now the first item in “prev” once fetched would be the current photo.

    This solution does has to be amended with a check that the first item in “prev” is in fact the requested id, because it doesn’t make sure it’s the proper id, in case of gaps in the series.

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