Photo Gallery Question

[joe1182]

o.k. I have used PHP photo galleries before but, not for what I would like to do. I would like to have a series of thumbnails on the right side of the screen but, when clicked I would like them to open on the right. Does anyone know how to do this? The page would look like something like the below example. Thanks for any help.

Image Target Here

thumbnail
thumbnail
thumbnail

Description and content would go here
this would be static information.

[jatar_k]

essentially you are just creating links

I am assuming the thumbs and the full size images already exist
is the description and content in a db? or is it on a page that might have a name of some significance that can be used by a script?
are your image names/paths in a db?
if not do they have unique names that can somehow be tied to the destination page/content?

hard to explain it with out a lot more info

[joe1182]

I think I may have made this more complicated than it needed to be. The pics are not in a database I will just insert them into the HTML. Do I just need to set the target of the link to open in a certain part of the page?

[jatar_k]

that should probably work, plain and simple is always a good approach, you don't need php if you only need good old html

as your site grows you might find the plain vanilla way causes more work but you can always address that at that time

when I automate these types of things I usually use a common naming cionvention for images/pages.

so the full size image would be
mydescriptivename.jpg

thumbnail would be
t_mydescriptivename.jpg

pagename would be
mydescriptivename.html

that makes a dynamic approach easier and also makes everything have a nice juicy name ;)

sometimes I do the same thing with id's, all depends on what I have available on a project

[joe1182]

thanks for your time