I'm really confused

[phill.luckhurst]

I haven't a clue with PHP so please spoon feed me.

In the middle of a script that I have been looking at there is this
code which I have extracted to run on it's own

<?php
include "flashthumb.php";
?>

<script type="text/javascript" src="mootools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="slideshow.js"></script>

<div id="my_slideshow" class="slideshow">
<img src="images/vote.jpg" alt="A picture" width="400" height="300" /

>

</div>
....
<script type="text/javascript">
myShow = new Slideshow('my_slideshow', {hu: 'images/', images:
['vote.jpg','thumb_rar.jpg','thumb_wav.jpg']});
</script>
<?
?>

Now flashthumb.php generates a list of filenames in the variable
$url[1], $url[2], $url[3] etc

how would I use those in the myshow line instead of
'vote.jpg','thumb_rar.jpg','thumb_wav.jpg'

or am I totally barking mad and getting it wrong?

[Shelly]

ph*************@googlemail.com wrote:

I haven't a clue with PHP so please spoon feed me.

In the middle of a script that I have been looking at there is this
code which I have extracted to run on it's own

<?php
include "flashthumb.php";

>>

<script type="text/javascript" src="mootools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="slideshow.js"></script>

<div id="my_slideshow" class="slideshow">
<img src="images/vote.jpg" alt="A picture" width="400" height="300" /

>>

</div>
...
<script type="text/javascript">
myShow = new Slideshow('my_slideshow', {hu: 'images/', images:
['vote.jpg','thumb_rar.jpg','thumb_wav.jpg']});
</script>
<?

>>

Now flashthumb.php generates a list of filenames in the variable
$url[1], $url[2], $url[3] etc

how would I use those in the myshow line instead of
'vote.jpg','thumb_rar.jpg','thumb_wav.jpg'

or am I totally barking mad and getting it wrong?

Suppose the value of $url[1] is the one that corresponds to 'my_slideshow'
and holds that value. Then you would use

<?php echo $url[1]; ?>

instead of 'my_Slideshow'.

It allows you, for example, to initialize fields in the middle of html text.

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Shelly

[phill.luckhurst]

On 18 Nov, 22:44, "Shelly" <[e-mail]:

[e-mail] wrote:

I haven't a clue with PHP so please spoon feed me.

In the middle of a script that I have been looking at there is this
code which I have extracted to run on it's own

<?php
include "flashthumb.php";

<script type="text/javascript" src="mootools.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="slideshow.js"></script>

<div id="my_slideshow" class="slideshow">
<img src="images/vote.jpg" alt="A picture" width="400" height="300" /

</div>
...
<script type="text/javascript">
myShow = new Slideshow('my_slideshow', {hu: 'images/', images:
['vote.jpg','thumb_rar.jpg','thumb_wav.jpg']});
</script>
<?

Now flashthumb.php generates a list of filenames in the variable
$url[1], $url[2], $url[3] etc

how would I use those in the myshow line instead of
'vote.jpg','thumb_rar.jpg','thumb_wav.jpg'

or am I totally barking mad and getting it wrong?

Suppose the value of $url[1] is the one that corresponds to 'my_slideshow'
and holds that value. Then you would use

<?php echo $url[1]; ?>

instead of 'my_Slideshow'.

It allows you, for example, to initialize fields in the middle of html text.

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Shelly- Hide quoted text -

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I don't think I explained myself properly or I don't quite understand
what you mean.

The code above generates a slideshow from the images listed.

$url is an exploded array generated by flashthumb.pbp of filenames
picked from a directory

so $url[1] would be vote.jpg
$url[2] would be rar.jpg
$url[3] would be wav.jpg

etc

except flashthumb selects random jpegs.

The line

myShow = new Slideshow('my_slideshow', {hu: 'images/', images:
['vote.jpg','thumb_rar.jpg','thumb_wav.jpg']});

inserts those images into a slideshow script

so what is needed is something along the lines of

myShow = new Slideshow('my_slideshow', {hu: 'images/', images:
['$url[1]','$url[2]','$url[3]']});

but that obviously is not the correct syntax to insert those values

I really must learn how to code.

[=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Iv=E1n_S=E1nchez_Ortega?=]

ph*************@googlemail.com wrote:

so what is needed is something along the lines of

myShow = new Slideshow('my_slideshow', {hu: 'images/', images:
['$url[1]','$url[2]','$url[3]']});

So you need to quote the array values, then concatenate them all with
commas...
<?php

foreach($url as $u)
{
$quotedurl[] = "'" . $u . "'";
}

$concatenatedstuff = implode(',',$quotedurl);

echo "myShow = new Slideshow('my_slideshow', {hu: 'images/', images:
[$concatenatedstuff]});";

?>

I really must learn how to code.

Yep...

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