Tables and php, help please?

[peuge]

Ok so I am making a picture gallery which comprises of a table with 3 columns next to each other.

 

1st column displays a category menu (menu.php)

2nd column displays a big picture

3rd column displays the thumbs of the selected category. (thumbs.php)

 

The table is set out in gallery.php which includes menu and thumbs where appropriate.

 

Now I have my code working so that when I click a category it gets all the pics in that category and opens up thumbs.php which displays the pictures in that category as thumbs. What I am really wanting is for when I click the category it opens up thumbs.php but on the same page in column 3.

 

menu.php sends data to thumbs.php depending on the link clicked

echo '<a href="thumbs.php?dir=' . $j . '" target="_parent">' . $i . '</a>';

 

** $j is the name of the catagory directory

 

thumbs.php then gets all the files in that directory and displays them.

echo '<td align="center" ><a href="gallery.php?var=' . $var . '" target="_parent"><img border = "0" src="' . $images . $cat . $file . '" /></a></td>'; 

 

The above link is for each thumb which when clicks opens a large picture (this works)

 

Any help much appreciated.

Hope I made myself clear?

Thanks 

 

 

[peuge]

Figured it out incase anyone was looking (doesnt seem like it)

 

I sent from menu.php to gallery instead of sending to thumbs. Then right before I included thumbs.php I did a

$_GET['dir']

and it worked!

[peuge]

Ok so got the menu to show the pictures in each category in thumbs.php without leaving gallery.php. But now when I click on a thumb it opens this big picture but looses all the thumbs?