Preview album (not loading up all the pictures all the time)

[ringworm24]

Hi,

I was wondering if anyone could help a newbie I am using CSS MYSQL and PHP. And for a learning excises I am trying to make my own gallery.  Basically I have it so I can click on the album and it shows all the thumb nail pictures and then I click on the picture and it displays the picture.

I was hoping to take it one step further by display the preview pictures in a container , which would then display the picture in a different container. I can do this by passing a variable in a link to the same page and using GET. The only problem with this that it will have to load all the preview pictures again.

So finally how can I achieve the above with PHP/CSS without having to load all the preview pictures every time

Hope that made sense?

Many thanks

 

[jug]

Hi,

 

AJAX could be used here but depending on your needs you may only need something like lightbox (http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/) or fancybox (http://fancybox.net/). Take a look at the link below.

 

http://www.rob-passmore.co.uk/gallery/portrait/

 

This is a site I developed and includes a gallery very similar to your description. No AJAX is involved here and it is just the use of the brilliant fancybox.

 

Hope this helps.

 

jug