I keep most of the images for this website in one folder. This worked well when I posted intermittently, but now with (nearly) daily posts accompanied by multiple pictures it's gotten out of control, especially if I want to reuse older images.

Out of frustration I wrote a quick PHP script that would turn my tangle of pictures into a neat, easily scanned gallery, saving me a ton of time and frustration. There are a lot of images in that folder, so beware that it takes a while to load all the way.

I also added a url parameter so that you can use my script if you have a similar folder content directory. Just type http://www.prime-number.com/see.php??url=your_url into your browser url bar. Here is an example of the parameter in action.

Here is the code. Use at your own risk:

<?PHP

//get $url from parameter or use default
if (isset($_GET['url'])) $url = $_GET['url'];
else $url = 'http://www.prime-number.com/images/?C=M;O=D';


//load url
$curl_handle=curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_URL,$url);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT,2);
curl_setopt($curl_handle,CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
curl_close($curl_handle);


if (empty($buffer)) print "Cannot Access Webpage<p>";
else
{

Labels: coding, projects

posted by Alison 5/16/2009 11:00:00 PM : (1) comments : splink