Getting a picture

[Zeroshade]

I'm very new to php. I would like to use it to store a picture something.jpg into a variable and call that variable to display the picture. Can I do this?

[willfitch]

Yes. 

The following example assumes you just want to simply display the image.
[code=php:0]
<?php
$img = 'example.jpg';
echo '<img src="/image/location/'.$img.'" />';
?>
[/code]

Is this what you're talking about?

[redarrow]

[code]
<?php

$num='10';

$pic='mypic.jpg';

if($num==10){

echo " <img src='$pic'></img>";

}else{

echo "sorry no pic";
}

?>
[/code]

[Zeroshade]

that helps a lot.. thank you.

[Zeroshade]

I have put two images into an array like so

[code]<?php
$picture[] = 'images\blue-carry.jpg';
                                                        $picture[] = 'images\blue-ebook.jpg';
                                                        echo '<img src="'.$picture[0].'" />';
?>[/code]

How can I set a timer up so that the one picture will fade and then reappear in say 5 seconds into the upcoming picture in the array?

[Zeroshade]

Here an updated piece of code.
[code]<?php
                                                $increment;
$picture[] = 'images\blue-carry.jpg';
                                                        $picture[] = 'images\blue-ebook.jpg';
                                                        for ($increment = 0; $increment < 3; $increment++)
                                                        echo '<img src="'.$picture[$increment].'" />';
?>[/code]

But this places the image below the last one. How can i set a timer so that it replaces the old one in 5 seconds?

[Zeroshade]

Does anybody know?

[trq]

[quote]Does anybody know?[/quote]

You need to use Javascript not PHP.

[Zeroshade]

Is it possible to do this in php? The reason is, the last time I used javascript in my xhtml, i had marks taken off because javascript slows the page down. So, php counters that because the page won't be slowed down because of it. Therefore, I'm learning php very quickly, and I thought I read something up on Timer.php? Am I wrong in assuming there is a way to do this in php?