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[lucidity23]

Ok...

I used to know how to do this, but it has been awhile. I have an image gallery I am trying to create. What I want to do is just have the images in the various galleries as thumbnails. Then 1 template page that they are loaded to when clicked on.

So if u click on a thumbnail, a page loads, showing the pic. But instead of having a page for EVERY pic, I thought I could just have 1 page that the thumbnail would tell the page which pic to show when it is clicked.

Any thoughts? It can be in ASP, Javascript, whatever...

 

[kenrbnsn]

It's very easily done in PHP and probably other scripting languages as well.

On the link for each thumbnail you can do something like:

<a href="yourscript.xyz?pic=picid"><img ...>

In your "yourscript.xyz" you would get and display the picture referenced by "picid".

I wrote one using PHP to display most of my digital pictures (and some scanned negatives and slides from many years ago). You can see it in action at

http://www.smilesontheweb.com/disp_pics.php

It works best with the latest browsers, since I use CSS menues. Javascript needs to be turned on if you use MSIE.

Ken

 

[maff500]

Try this

on the thumbnail page have something like this
-----------------------------------------
<a href=showpic.html?picture1.jpg>
<img src=thumbnail1.jpg>
</a>
<a href=showpic.html?picture2.jpg>
<img src=thumbnail2.jpg>
</a>
<a href=showpic.html?picture3.jpg>
<img src=thumbnail4.jpg>
</a>
-----------------------------------------

and then have a showpic.html file like this-

-----------------------------------------
<table>
<tr>
<td bgcolor=blue><h1>Selected Picture</h1>
<tr>
<td>
<script>
var url = document.location.href
url = document.location.href.split("?")
document.writeln("<img src=" + url[0] +">")
</script>
</table>
-----------------------------------------

 

[lucidity23]

Thanks to u both!!

Matt, What you posted worked, but I needed to change 2 things

I made it url[1] instead of url[0]

also I specified the scripting language as Javascripting.

It works though!!

thanks!!


- carpe diem -

 

[pgaec]

Hey,

You can use 4images - a free (not for commercial use) image gallery software written in pHP. Check out

http://www.4homepages.de/4images/demo.php

Why reinvent the wheel?