Building dynamic webpages - XML?

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July 30th, 2003, 12:46 PM

Beckababe

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Building dynamic webpages - XML?

I have a little time to kill, so I thought I'd try something new! I have a ton of photos I'd like to put on a web page and I started by making a page of thumbnails that link to the bigger versions. It seems kind of silly to me to go thru and cut and paste the name of each picture to create a new html page. I named the pictures with numbers, so it seems like there should be a way to just increment until I reach the number of pictures I have, but I'm not sure how... I've started reading about PHP (my server doesn't support), Java Scripting (I'm not sure how to pass variables), and XML (I can't even get a Hello World to work! All I see is code!). So, anyone have some suggestions?

July 30th, 2003, 01:17 PM

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One way to do it is to store your pictures in a relational database and have the pictures indexed, or even categorized. Then you can sort it in whatever way you so desired.

Hope this helps.

July 30th, 2003, 01:18 PM

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well with php is very easy. you just read the dir and output what's in there. with the rest i dont know.

if you find ahost that has php here's the code you can use

PHP Code:


		
			
<?





$dir = opendir('/path/to/the/dir');



while (false !== ($file = readdir($dir)))

{

    if ($file != '..' && $file != '.'  && $file != "_vti_cnf")

    {



        echo '<img src="'.$file.'" /><br>';

    }



}



?>

make sure you get the dir path right.

goodluck =)

July 31st, 2003, 03:24 AM

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Or in Perl

Code:


opendir(DIR, '/path/to/the/dir');
print "<img src=\"$_\" /><br/>" foreach grep !/^\.\.?$/, readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);

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August 6th, 2003, 01:47 PM

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Why not try the photo gallery automation script in photoshop?

August 12th, 2003, 11:44 AM

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I'm with the automate command in Photoshop. It will take minetes to generate a gallery of thumbnails with larger images. Basic information can be added at time of automation then a find and replace command can update the pages to mimic the look of your site.

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