Displaying last 6 images

[awolff02]

I've searched the forum and was not able to find any hints to get me started. Basically I have a folder that images get uploaded to every x minutes. The images are titled:

IMAGE1YYYYMMDDHHmmss

So I want to be able to read all the image files into an array..sort the array so that the latest 6 images reside in index 0-5. Then display those 6 images. Is this doable with javascript?

I am thinking it's not since javascript is client side. Any help is appreciated.

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You should be able to do this no problem, even client-side, as the image object supports 2 events, 'onload' and 'onerror'.

You should be able to use these to determine fairly reliably whether an image exists or not without the need for server-side scripting or ActiveX controls, etc.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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