directory arrays help needed

[coldfission]

I am trying to automate a customer's photo gallery.

directury structure:

 

pictures/01  - gallery 1

pictures/02  - gallery 2

pictures/03  - gallery 3

 

I want to keep my code flexible so i can expand to more galleries in the future.

 

The gallery page will be a paginated list of ALL pictures no matter folder/gallery they are in. I want each folder to be organized in descending order, but array_merge (?) them in ascending order.

 

This gallery is just a listing of thumbnails that link to the full picture. Now that i have split up the pictures into multiple folders, i have to include which folder that picture is in in the array.

 

I am having trouble with the array structures.

Where do i put the folder variable in the array?

What would my array structure look like?

I'm not very good at working with arrays  :'(

 

 

thanks

 

[BlueSkyIS]

are you storing this information in a database? if so, i would skip putting pictures into different directories and simply add a 'gallery_id' field to each picture to identify which gallery it belongs to. then only display the images/thumbs from the selected galleries.

[coldfission]

it would be nice if i was to store each picture filename in a database somehow, but i don't really want to do that. I want the customer to be able to just upload the picture to the directory and it shows up in the gallery automatically.

[steveclondon]

you need to really to this with a database, when you upload get the file name of the image and store this in the database.

[coldfission]

:'(