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You cannot enter comments, unless you name your images with long, descriptive titles.

You can always copy/paste into an xml file and then edit the captions.

When you re-named auto.php, did you also update the html to point to the new file?  The part that says slideshow.swf?file=auto.php.

I'm not the best coder out there but I had an old function that let me read a directory sorted by last modify date and that is what I wanted for my slideshow so I threw this together. It works great!

<?php
$file_dir="../../Slides/Grandkids"; //change this to a folder name
$link_dir="../Photos"; //change this to a folder name
$show_titles=true; //change to false if you don't want to see the captions
$omit_chars=0; //how many characters to cut off the title's front
$link_to_image=true; //do you want to display links?
$sortOrder="New"; //Left blank the order is standard Rev=reverse New=newest by mod date Old=oldest

print '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
    <slideshow  displayTime="8"
                transitionSpeed=".7"
                transitionType="Fade"
                motionType="None"
                motionEasing="easeInOut"
                randomize="false"
                slideshowWidth="480"
                slideshowHeight="350"
                slideshowX="center"
                slideshowY="center"
                bgColor="333333"
                bgOpacity="100"
                useHtml="true"
                showHideCaption="true"
                captionBg="000000"
                captionBgOpacity="40"
                captionTextSize="11"
                captionTextColor="FFFFFF"
                captionBold="false"
                captionPadding="7"
                showNav="true"
                autoHideNav="true"
                navHiddenOpacity="15"
                navX="center"
                navY="315"
                btnColor="FFCC00"
                btnHoverColor="ffffff"
                btnShadowOpacity="70"
                btnGradientOpacity="20"
                btnScale="120"
                btnSpace="50"
                navBgColor="333333"
                navBgAlpha="95"
                navCornerRadius="20"
                navBorderWidth="2"
                navBorderColor="FFFFFF"
                navBorderAlpha="100"
                navPadding="10"
                tooltipSize="8"
                tooltipColor="000000"
                tooltipBold="true"
                tooltipFill="FFFFFF"
                tooltipStrokeColor="000000"
                tooltipFillAlpha="80"
                tooltipStroke="0"
                tooltipStrokeAlpha="0"
                tooltipCornerRadius="8"
                loaderWidth="200"
                loaderHeight="1"
                loaderColor="FF0000"
                loaderOpacity="100"
                attachCaptionToImage="true"
                imageScaling="fill"
                slideshowMargin="0"
                showMusicButton="false"
                music=""
                musicVolume="100"
                musicMuted="true"
                musicLoop="true"
                watermark=""
                watermarkX="625"
                watermarkY="30"
                watermarkOpacity="100"
                watermarkLink=""
                watermarkLinkTarget="_blank"
                captionsY="bottom"
                >';
    //Get each file and add its details to two arrays
    $results = array();
    $handler = opendir($file_dir);
    while ($file = readdir($handler)) {
        if(substr($file, -3) == "jpg" || substr($file, -4) == "jpeg" ){
            $currentModified = filectime($file_dir."/".$file);
            $file_names[] = $file;
            $file_dates[] = $currentModified;
        }   
    }
       closedir($handler);

    //Sort the date array by preferred order
    if ($sortOrder == "New"){
        arsort($file_dates);
    } elseif ($sortOrder == "Old") {
        asort($file_dates);
    } elseif ($sortOrder == "Rev") {
        sort($file_names);
    }else{
        rsort($file_names);
    }
   
    //Match file_names array to file_dates array
    $file_names_Array = array_keys($file_dates);
    foreach ($file_names_Array as $idx => $name) $name=$file_names[$name];
    $file_dates = array_merge($file_dates);
   
    $i = 0;

    //Loop through dates array and then echo the list
    foreach ($file_dates as $file_dates){
        $date = $file_dates;
        $j = $file_names_Array[$i];
        $file = $file_names[$j];
        $i++;
           
                    $tmp_str = '<image img="'.$file_dir.'/'.$file.'" ';
                    if($show_titles){
                        $file_title=substr($file, $omit_chars, strpos($file, ".")-$omit_chars);
                        $tmp_str .= 'caption="'.$file_title.'" ';
                       
                    }
                   
                    if($link_to_image){
                        $link_title=substr($file, $omit_chars, strpos($file, ".")-$omit_chars);
                        $tmp_str .= 'link="'.$link_dir.'/'.$file.'" target="_blank"';
                       
                    }
                   
                        $tmp_str .=" />";
        echo  "$tmp_str";       
    }
print '</slideshow>';
?>

This script is very easy, but also very useful. Thanks alex

I think I solved my own problem... It might not be the cleanest solution, but it worked for me.  Hopefully it can save someone else a bit of trouble. 

This script counts the number of files in the directory.  Depending on the number that is returned, you can alter the display time for each image.  So technically, the slideshow hasn't paused, it can just be set to display a single for a really long time.

Secondly, if there is only one image in the directory, this script disables showNav in the slideshow - so the user can't hit 'next' and break the slideshow.

Here's the PHP:
$cnt=0;
$dirname="directory";
$dh = opendir($dirname);
while ($file=readdir($dh))
{
$cnt=$cnt+1;
}
closedir ($dh);

$num_files=($cnt-2);

if ($num_files == 1)
    {$disp_time=300;
     $nav_disp="false";
    }
else
    {$disp_time=5;
     $nav_disp="true";
    }

And in the xml, further down the page...

displayTime="'.$disp_time.'"
showNav="'.$nav_disp.'"

I wrote to Alex, but if anyone else can help me, that would be great.

I am trying to get the flash sledshow to work the auto.php.
I have several questions. I am trying to do two different slideshows where the photos are in two differetn folders. The these folders are in the folder where the html files, that have the slideshows, will reside.

In the auto.php file, where you can specify the folder:
$file_dir="warehouse";
How exactly do you specify the folder where your images are located?
IS this where you specify where your images are located?

Can I call a different .php file for each slideshow? For instance, evidence.php for photos in the evidence folder and vendor.php for photos in the vendor folder. I assume this can be done if I change what is being called in the html file in this line:
var so = new SWFObject("slideshow.swf?file=evidence.php", "gallery",
"500", "375", "7", "#ffffff");

I am not a coder and would appreciate any help that anyone could provide. Thanks.
David

Thank you again for your reply and information.
I must be the stupidest person in the world. I cannot get this to work.

My html file and my auto.php file reside in the same folder.
My images are in a folder off of that called warehouse. It is only one folder away from the html and auto.pho files.

This is my html that I am putting in my page:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 TRANSITIONAL//EN">
<html>
    <head>
        <title>FlashNifties Flash Slideshow</title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="flashdetect.js"></script>
        </head>
    <body>

<div id="flashcontent" style="width:435px; height:300px;
background-color:#FFFFFF; border:4px solid #800000;">
            <h1>Oops!</h1>
            <p>It looks like you don't have flash player 6 installed.
            <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" >
            Click here</a> to go to Macromedia download page.
            </p>
    </div>

        <script type="text/javascript">
            var so = new SWFObject("slideshow.swf?file=auto.php",
            "gallery",
"500", "375", "7", "#ffffff");
            so.write("flashcontent");
        </script>

    </body>
</html>

This is my auto.php file (which is what I am calling from the html) that shows the directory call for where the images are located:

$file_dir="warehouse"; //change this to a folder name

Here is a link to the actual page:
http://sondzin.com/icsite/html/evidence.html

I am sorry I am not getting this. I am sure it is somethig that I am not doing correctly.

Thanks,
David

pret auto

I just wanted to take the time to thank you for joining and for your contribution.
Great work^^

One of the problems I encountered was, of course, my problem. I found that the text editor I was using was automatically text wrapping. Even though I turned it off, something remained in the code, though I don't know what it was. However, when I opened the .asp (or .php) file in the editor with text wrap turned off, saved the file and then uploaded it, then it worked.