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Thread began 7/08/2011 5:42 pm by A Sound Design | Last modified 7/20/2011 7:05 am by Jason Byrnes | 2231 views | 7 replies |

A Sound Design

Light Box Effect

I have created a page that binds uploaded image thumbnails, ie. thumb1, thumb 2 etc. to a table in a page. I would like to be able to link to the full size image from the thumbnail and show it in a pop up. How do I do this?

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

depends on the lightbox you use, with sllimbox:
slimbox

you use a link, with rel attribute:

<a href="images/image-1.jpg" rel="lightbox" title="my caption">image #1</a>



you could create a recordset to return the thumbnail and large image file name, and use those in the link code for example:
<a href="images/<?php echo $row_recordsetName['largeImage']; ?>" rel="lightbox" title="my caption"><img src="thumbs/<?php echo $row_recordsetName['thumbImage']; ?>" /></a>

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A Sound Design

Thanks for this. It works great.

I am using it to create a dynamic photo gallery so that up to 5 images can be displayed. maybe there's a better way but in my Recordset I have Photo1, Photo2 etc. On the page I bind these to each TD in the table to display them. How would I go about it so that if only 2 images have been uploaded the other 3 are not displayed? At the moment I have each as a placeholder on the page but do not want to show it if empty.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

use an if statement:

php:
<?php if($row_recordsetName['Photo1'] != "") { ?>
<td>
Photo1 display.....
</td>
<?php ?>
<?php 
if($row_recordsetName['Photo2'] != "") { ?>
<td>
Photo2 display....
</td>
<?php ?>
etc.....
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A Sound Design

Using the code:

<tr>
<?php if $row_rsDirectory['Photo1'] != "" { ?>
<td>
<a href="images/uploads/<?php echo $row_rsDirectory['Photo1']; ?>" rel="lightbox" title=""><img src="images/uploads/thumbnails/<?php echo $row_rsDirectory['Photo1']; ?>" /></a></td>
<?php } ?>
<?php if $row_rsDirectory['Photo2'] != "" { ?>
<td><a href="images/uploads/<?php echo $row_rsDirectory['Photo2']; ?>" rel="lightbox" title=""><img src="images/uploads/thumbnails/<?php echo $row_rsDirectory['Photo2']; ?>" /></a></td>
<?php } ?>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
<td>&nbsp;</td>
</tr>

I get an error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE, expecting '(' in C:\xampp\htdocs\affiancedv2\directory\index.php on line 222

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

sorry, the example code from before was missing () around the if statement conditions, the corrcet sample code shouldbe:

php:
<?php if($row_recordsetName['Photo1'] != "") { ?>

<td>
Photo1 display.....
</td>
<?php ?>
<?php 
if($row_recordsetName['Photo2'] != "") { ?>
<td>
Photo2 display....
</td>
<?php ?>
etc.....
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A Sound Design

Thanks Jason. You've been a great help.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

you're welcome.

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