Make it faster

[dras]

natural sort of directory

 

<?php

   $images_folder = "./corvette/";

   $files = array();  // def array.

   $image_width = 213;

   $image_height = 168;

   $count = 0;

   $dir = opendir($images_folder);

  while(false != ($file = readdir($dir))) {

        if(($file != ".") and ($file != "..") ) {

                $files[] = $file; // put in array.

        }   

    }



   natsort($files); // sort.

   foreach($files as $file) 

   {

      $ext = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);

      if ($ext == 'gif' || $ext == 'jpeg' || $ext == 'jpg' || $ext == 'png')

      {

         echo "<a href=\"$images_folder$file\" rel=\"OnlineSlideShow1\">";

         echo "<img class=\"image\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-width:0;left:0px;top:0px;width:" .$image_width. "px;height:" .$image_height. "px;";

         if ($count != 0)

         {

            echo "display:none;";

         }

         echo "\" src=\"$images_folder$file\">";

         echo "</a>";

         echo "\r\n";

         $count++;

      }

   }

?>

 

Tnx for help

[requinix]

Is it... too slow?

[ginerjm]

Hmmm.... Usually topics start with a question. Do you have one? Or are you giving us a tutorial on how to use natsort?

[taquitosensei]

 

natural sort of directory

 

<?php
   $images_folder = "./corvette/";
   $files = array();  // def array.
   $image_width = 213;
   $image_height = 168;
   $count = 0;
   $dir = opendir($images_folder);
  while(false != ($file = readdir($dir))) {
        if(($file != ".") and ($file != "..") ) {
                $files[] = $file; // put in array.
        }   
    }


   natsort($files); // sort.
   foreach($files as $file) 
   {
      $ext = pathinfo($file, PATHINFO_EXTENSION);
      if ($ext == 'gif' || $ext == 'jpeg' || $ext == 'jpg' || $ext == 'png')
      {
         echo "<a href=\"$images_folder$file\" rel=\"OnlineSlideShow1\">";
         echo "<img class=\"image\" alt=\"\" style=\"border-width:0;left:0px;top:0px;width:" .$image_width. "px;height:" .$image_height. "px;";
         if ($count != 0)
         {
            echo "display:none;";
         }
         echo "\" src=\"$images_folder$file\">";
         echo "</a>";
         echo "\r\n";
         $count++;
      }
   }
?>

 

Tnx for help

 

I would use in_array instead of if for the extensions. 

$extensions=array('gif','jpeg','jpg','png'); 
natsort(files); 
foreach($files as $file) {
     if(in_array($ext,$extensions))) { 
          // do_stuff 
     }
}

[dras]

My English is not so good, so ...

On web page I have several (12) Slideshows and pics are in folder.

When I don't use natsort pic is not show in correct order (1.jpg, 2.jpg ...10.jpg, 11.jpg)

So, I sort each folder, but now page open lazy.

How can I do same work instead natsort each folder? 

Tnx.

[requinix]

If you only have 12 images then it should not be slow. Are you sure that it became slow when you added sorting and was not slow before then?

[dras]

12 folders with 15-30 pics

 

http://restauracija-oldtimera-gigi.hr/portfolio.php

[Barand]

Are these full-size (megapixel) images that you are displaying at a reduced size (213x168). If so, even though you are displaying them in a smaller size, you are still downloading the full size image.

 

The way to speed things up would be to pre-shrink the stored images and download the thumbnail sized versions for display.

[requinix]

You're also loading them all at the same time. Sorting is fast but listing all the files in a directory is not. 12 folders * 30 pictures each = 360 files. If each file takes 0.001 seconds to find then that's 0.360 seconds to load the entire page. Here on the west coast of the US it takes 0.7 seconds for the page to be generated and sent to me, but some of that will be because the server is in Croatia.

 

How often do you add or remove images?

[dras]

No, images are small size (~100 kb)

Adding new images weekly

[requinix]

I think I would split the work between PHP and some AJAX.

 

1. Have your PHP script find the first image for each directory. If it's always named 1.jpg then that's easy. That's the only information it outputs in the page.

2. When the page is loaded, have it fire off AJAX requests for each directory. These requests go to a PHP script which reports all the images available in the directory.

3. Make this new PHP script use browser caching, like saying it Expires in 3 hours.

4. That Javascript then takes that set of files and sets up the lightboxes.

 

The page should also not be preloading every single image in every single directory. That will hurt your bandwidth. It will preload the first images for each directory but loading the others should wait until the user opens up the lightbox slideshow.

[dras]

If I put only 8 sideshow on page will that speed up loading? 

[Psycho]

No, images are small size (~100 kb)

Adding new images weekly

 

That is not what I see. From what I see, the code is loading the full-size images and resizing them in the page

 

 

<a href="./corvette/0.jpg" rel="OnlineSlideShow1"><img class="image" alt="" style="border-width:0;left:0px;top:0px;width:213px;height:168px;" src="./corvette/0.jpg"></a>

 

The image that is being loaded in that code is 1032 x 581 and is 322KB! You should create copies of the images that are at the smaller size to show in the slideshow list and only call the full size image when the user selects to see it in full size.

[Barand]

Perhaps, if enough people tell him, it may sink in.