[SOLVED] Get All Images In Folder Automatically

[refiking]

How can I take alter this code to retrieve all the images from the images/header folder instead of having to list each one separately?

 

<script language="JavaScript">

// configuration structure
var A_TPL = {
	// randomize the array each time page loads
	'random' : true,
	// number of transparency changes during the transition
	//	increase for smoother transition, reduce for less CPU usage
	'steps' : 20,
	// transition duration in seconds
	'transtime': .5,
	// slide time in seconds
	'slidetime': 5,
	// width of the slide (optional)
	'width' : 200,
	// height of the slide (optional)
	'height': 200,
	// alt text for the image (optional)
	'alt' : '',
	// css class assigned to the slide <img> (optional)
	'css' : ''
};

// list of images to display
var A_ITEMS = [
	'images/masthead.jpg',
	'images/header/1.jpg',
	'images/header/2.jpg'
];

// fader initialization	
var mySlideShow = new tFader (A_ITEMS, A_TPL);

</script>

[RichardRotterdam]

You could use php to read the files in a folder and output an array of all images in js format. Javascript can't read what files are in a folder.

example

<script>
var jsimages=new Array();
<?php
$files=array();
//your read directory script here
foreach($files as $file){
  //add image urls to the js array
  echo "jsimages.push('{$file}')\n" ;
}
?>
</script>

[refiking]

Hmm.  Can you integrate that into the code I pasted?  I don't know how it goes together.

[RichardRotterdam]

Keep in mind that the read dir script isnt written in my example

however a script to read a folder with images is prob written over a thousand times on this forum I doubt you will have any trouble finding that.

As for the array look at the following in your script.

// list of images to display
   var A_ITEMS = [
      'images/masthead.jpg',
      'images/header/1.jpg',
      'images/header/2.jpg'
   ];

that's a js array.

so A_ITEMS is the array name.

Rename jsimages to A_ITEMS and it might work(assuming the php array has the image urls in it).