image gallery - it should be easier than this

[Richard]

All I want to do is to read a list of the image files in my folder and
display them on a page. That way I don't have to re-write the page, I
can just upload extra images.

I don't need fancy bells or whistles or slide shows or sliders or
anything.

The smallest google search I come up with offers a million pages, most
of them bells and whistle types and I can't find the wood for the trees.

Can anybody help please?

Richard
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[Richard]

In message <nu************ *************** ***@comcast.com >, Randy Webb
<Hi************ @aol.comwrites

>Richard said the following on 8/6/2006 5:03 PM:

>In message <hY************ *************** ***@comcast.com >, Randy Webb
<Hi********** **@aol.comwrite s

>>Richard said the following on 8/6/2006 11:19 AM:
OK...
I can have a page with two frames and into frame2 I could load
www.sompage.com.foldername/
Which, with no index file present, will give me a listing of all the
files in that folder.

That is what I was talking about doing. Open that page in your
browser, copy the image names, and then strip out the text you don't
want, wrap each name in "<imageName >" and make it an entry in an
array. Save the file as a .js file and then include that file in the

Now THIS is the bit that's currently beyond me. I'm self taught so
I have a good few gaps. I don't mind learning and bashing code about
until it begs for mercy - I take it you DO mean that I can do all that
javascript?

You could write a script that would read the list from a web page,
maybe, and then try to parse out the filenames. But it's a lot simpler
to do it manually.

Yes boss, I know boss. Honest boss ;-) But the whole point is that I'd
like to have a situation where I'm free to simply upload new images into
the folder as often as I like, remove old ones etc. - and I DON'T have
to re-write the gallery page every time I do it.

I'm lazy that way. Quite apart from teaching myself a whole bunch of
stuff as I go along I reckon I'll do less work over all now if I can do
this than I would over the years to come re-writing the page to meet
every new update.

>
var images = new Array()
var num = 0;
images[num++] = "name of first image";
images[num++] = "name of second image";
images[num++] = "name of third image";

It is quite simple to do that with a text editor with a good
Find/Replace in it. Remove all the text except image names, then
Find/Replace.

Find: ^P
Replace with: ";^Pimages[num++]="

I think we're just about there.

Gawd knows if I can find it again but I saw a HTML parse script that
worked quickly and easily with "start" and "end" strings.

I think it was inclusive, But even so if I hand it "<a img src" and
"</a>" to work with... I'd be home and dry. More or less ;-)

All I've got to do now is find that one page again out of all the
hundreds I've waded through over the weekend.

Thanks.
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[Dr John Stockton]

JRS: In article <q7************ **@squeaky.demo n.co.uk>, dated Sun, 6
Aug 2006 09:46:51 remote, seen in news:comp.lang. javascript, Richard
<Ri*****@squeak y.demon.co.ukpo sted :

>
All I want to do is to read a list of the image files in my folder and
display them on a page. That way I don't have to re-write the page, I
can just upload extra images.

I assume you have a Demon TAM account or similar, in which case you have
a directory structure on Demon's server (which one might hope Web page
javascript can access; but it cannot) and you should have a matching
directory structure on your own computer, assumed to be a PC, which Web
page javascript cannot possibly access, but which, if you are
fenestrated, can be accessed by J[ava]script running under WSH, for
which a better place to ask is the microsoft.publi c.scripting.*
hierarchy.
Your best move, ISTM, is to have a program or script which runs on your
PC and generates a Web page listing the image files as links.

This command line, run at a MS-DOS prompt and using COLS via sig line 3,
does the basics if run in a directory containing Web pages :-
dir *.* /b | COLS { 'a * 'href= q 1- q } 1- { '/a } { 'br }
generating lines like :-
<a href="estr-tbl.txt">estr-tbl.txt</a><br>
and this for images :-
dir *.* /b | COLS { 'p } 1- { 'br } { 'img * 'src= q 1- q }
generating lines like :-
<p>13.gif<br><i mg src="13.gif">
In each case redirect to a file and use the copy command to join a
respectable top and tail - the whole can be put in a batch file.
On my site there are various programs & scripts for helping prepare the
Web site; bit none do what you ask for.

>Richard
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