How to position this image differently?

[we5inelgr]

Hi all,

I've got this working so that a thumbnail of the image is displayed, and when moused over the magnifying glass, the image is displayed in a nonthumbnail size (i.e. larger):

code on the page displaying the image:

<img src="thumbnails.html?file=<? echo $photo; ?>&maxw=300&maxh=300" border="0"><br>
<a class="nonThumbnail" href="#thumb"><img src="images/magnify.png" border="0"><span><img src="thumbnails.html?file=<? echo $photo; ?>&maxw=600&maxh=600"></span></a>

code in thumbnails.html:

<?
$sImagePath = $_GET["file"];

$iThumbnailWidth = (int)$_GET['width'];
$iThumbnailHeight = (int)$_GET['height'];

$iMaxWidth = (int)$_GET["maxw"];
$iMaxHeight = (int)$_GET["maxh"];

if ($iMaxWidth && $iMaxHeight) $sType = 'scale';
else if ($iThumbnailWidth && $iThumbnailHeight) $sType = 'exact';

$img = NULL;

$sExtension = strtolower(end(explode('.', $sImagePath)));
if ($sExtension == 'jpg' || $sExtension == 'jpeg' || $sExtension == 'pjpeg') {

$img = @imagecreatefromjpeg($sImagePath)
or die("Cannot create new JPEG image");

} else if ($sExtension == 'png') {

$img = @imagecreatefrompng($sImagePath)
or die("Cannot create new PNG image");

} else if ($sExtension == 'gif') {

$img = @imagecreatefromgif($sImagePath)
or die("Cannot create new GIF image");

}

if ($img) {

$iOrigWidth = imagesx($img);
$iOrigHeight = imagesy($img);

if ($sType == 'scale') {

$fScale = min($iMaxWidth/$iOrigWidth,
 $iMaxHeight/$iOrigHeight);

if ($fScale < 1) {

$iNewWidth = floor($fScale*$iOrigWidth);
$iNewHeight = floor($fScale*$iOrigHeight);

$tmpimg = imagecreatetruecolor($iNewWidth,
 $iNewHeight);

imagecopyresampled($tmpimg, $img, 0, 0, 0, 0,
$iNewWidth, $iNewHeight, $iOrigWidth, $iOrigHeight);

imagedestroy($img);
$img = $tmpimg;
} 

} else if ($sType == "exact") {

$fScale = max($iThumbnailWidth/$iOrigWidth,
 $iThumbnailHeight/$iOrigHeight);

if ($fScale < 1) {

$iNewWidth = floor($fScale*$iOrigWidth);
$iNewHeight = floor($fScale*$iOrigHeight);

$tmpimg = imagecreatetruecolor($iNewWidth,
$iNewHeight);
$tmp2img = imagecreatetruecolor($iThumbnailWidth,
$iThumbnailHeight);

imagecopyresampled($tmpimg, $img, 0, 0, 0, 0,
$iNewWidth, $iNewHeight, $iOrigWidth, $iOrigHeight);

if ($iNewWidth == $iThumbnailWidth) {

$yAxis = ($iNewHeight/2)-
($iThumbnailHeight/2);
$xAxis = 0;

} else if ($iNewHeight == $iThumbnailHeight) {

$yAxis = 0;
$xAxis = ($iNewWidth/2)-
($iThumbnailWidth/2);

} 

imagecopyresampled($tmp2img, $tmpimg, 0, 0,
 $xAxis, $yAxis,
 $iThumbnailWidth,
 $iThumbnailHeight,
 $iThumbnailWidth,
 $iThumbnailHeight);

imagedestroy($img);
imagedestroy($tmpimg);
$img = $tmp2img;
} 

}

header("Content-type: image/jpeg");
imagejpeg($img);

}
?>

This works fine as far as creating the thumbnail and the larger image with mouseover via the <a> tag.

However, the larger image (displayed on mouseover) is positioned underneath and to the side of the original (thumbnail) image.

What I'd like to do is have the larger nonthumbnail image displayed to the right of the thumbnail with the tops of the two images even with each other.

How can that repositioning be done?

[rainborick]

Something like this might help:

<style type="text/css">
.iwZoomBox { float:left; position:relative; top:0; left:0;
       width:300px; z-index:1; overflow:visible; }
.iwZoom { position:relative; top:0; left:0; width:300px; z-index:1; text-align:center; }
.iwZoom:hover > div { display:block; }
.iwZoom div { position:absolute; top:0; left:302px; width:600px; display:none; z-index:2; }
</style>
<div class="iwZoomBox">
<div class="iwZoom">
<img src="thumbnails.html?file=<? echo $photo; ?>&maxw=300&maxh=300" alt=""><br>
<img src="images/magnify.png" alt="">
<div><img src="thumbnails.html?file=<? echo $photo; ?>&maxw=600&maxh=600"></div>
</div><!-- end .iwZoom -->
</div><!-- end .iwZoomBox -->

I took out the <a>nchor tags to simplify things because I couldn't see what they did. Anyway, this should get you started.