Dealing with Pictures

[mielkman]

I'm totally new to php, I'm actually doing web work for the first time in over 3 years.  Basically the whole world has changed and I have to start over learning! 

 

My first two projects need to call up images and text files stored folder by folder. 

 

Can you point me to some good applications that deal with bringing up images and opening files that will help me learn some basic control?

[Daniel0]

You can use DirectoryIterator to scan the folder for items. You can use functions like readfile or file_get_contents to read them. You can use GD to manipulate the images.

 

I suppose you'll have to be more specific to get more help.

[rameshfaj]

It is difficult to point you to some other's application. Unless you explain your problem clearly we cant dig the problem clearly.

[mielkman]

Here's the first thing I'm hoping to do:

 

I want to make a module that displays pictures that I place in a folder to be displayed sequentially like a slideshow.  I want to do it in such a way that all I have to do is change the jpgs that are in the folder to change the pictures that show in the slide-show. 

 

The other module I make is evolving as I go.  I want it to check an e-mail and take the body text and add it to a news section on my website along with the date of the website. 

 

I've found a few things out there on the web that do similar stuff to what I want, but the more information the better.  I also have a big book on php to dig through so hopefully I won't be so ignorant as time goes on.

 

thanks for your help!