URGENT !! PHP script needed to preload ALL images in a given folder...

[VisionIT]

Anyone that can solve this needs a medal!!!

I have a standard Java-style image preloader running at the moment... but it's hardly ideal.

It just has an array where you manually add each image you want to preload. It takes too long to do, so is there a PHP/CGI script which AUTOMATICALLY preload's all the images in a certain folder?

So instead of... "images/1.jpg","images/2.jpg...etc"
I could... "images/*.jpg"

Thank you in advance.

Regards,

Paul.

[phpman]

no, php is serverside so it can't preload. you have javascript preloading and that is all you can do.

harldy ideal, that is the only choice you have.

[The Hobo]

What you can do is create a script to read all files in the directory and output the javascript code.

This is off the top of my head:

<?php
if ($handle = opendir('/home/your_site/images')) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { 
        if (!strstr($file, ".jpg") === false) {
            echo "JavaScript stuff with file name here.";
        }
    }

    closedir($handle); 
}
?>

That's the best I could come up with off the top of my head. See the manual if you need more help.

[VisionIT]

We have a genius....

Thanks M8.... i'll see if I can get that working. I'll let you know.

Regards,

Paul.

[The Hobo]

Let me know if you need anymore help.