Hi,

I have ALOT of images in a directory on my server. I was wondering if there is a way to make them all be shown as thumbnails so I can easily scan through all the images. Please help. I spent a while searching the internet and nothing...

It's pretty simple to go through all files in a directory, just have a look att php.net for the function opendir for a quick example, or search for "php list files in directory" on Google.

After that, you'd have to create a thumbnail for every image. Now, I dont know what you wanna do with them, but if you're going to be looking at them alot you may want to create a permanent thumbnail picture (save it in some directory). Otherwise, if you're only going to do this once, it may be enough to just set a width and height (with html or css) to the <img> tag and simply show all images that way.

If your going to create a thumbnail you're going to need some functions for that. You can find all image function in php here, http://se2.php.net/manual/en/book.image.php
But it's probably much simpler to search Google for "php make thumbnail", it's really not that hard

yes.. a little more detail will help to solve your problem.

look into this: http://webcheatsheet.com/php/create_...ail_images.php
1. The function will create a small thumbnail for each picture and put it in a different directory.
2. then in your CGI script, do something similar to this, replace $dir to the directory which contains your thumbnail image, and xxx to the webroot path to the image.
while (false !== ($fname = readdir( $dir ))) {
echo "<img src='/xxx/".$fname."'/>";
}
3. then your CGI will load all the image to your website. However, if you have A LOT of picture, it may be better to do some paging. For example, display 50 pictures at a time.

There are over a hundred images in the directory. And making the thumbnails seems tricky.

Is it possible to find a script that will just shrink ALL the images in a directory like highslide? The problem will highslide is that you have to have a direct link to all the images.
http://highslide.com/

Highslide doesn't shrink images for you, it only opens them in a flashy way. You must already have a thumbnail and then make it a link to the full size picture.

And still, as I said before, it really isn't that hard, I promise
For example, check this out. http://www.webcheatsheet.com/php/cre...ail_images.php

Hi. Thanks for the reply. However, it will be too much work to
make links from thumbnails to all those images. There are over a
hundred in the directory. I just wanna be able to do a quick scan
through the directory so I can know which pictures to keep.

If I make links, the time to make all those links will probably be longer than the scan if you know what I mean...