Thumbnail Index Generator for JPEG Images under RISC OS
Generates HTML index pages and corresponding thumbnails for a gallery of JPEG images
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About This Site
This site uses Hypertext Pre-processing - PHP - to make most of the the pages, with extensive use of tables.
It is hosted by Spellings Computer Services on an
Apache server.
There is a standard header file¹ used on most of the pages; - which includes the title and the menu on the left as
well as the HTML to start the page and table off, then the page content - which is this bit you're reading now - and a
standard footer file which here just finishes off the table, provides the 'top' link, and then finishes off the page
HTML.
I am also using it to add a random quote at the foot of some of the pages by making my footer file a PHP file.
It did come out in the wrong place in IE originally, but I've
sorted that now by including it in the table!
It is the server which puts these three bits together when you request the page.
The content page starts with the tag <?php include ("h0.htm") ?> for the header, and ends with the
tag <?php include ("f0.php") ?> to add the footer.²
The server's PHP parser substitutes these comment tags with the actual files and/or the resulting text.
PHP also automatically provides the last-updated date on, for example, the author page where it is useful to have
this information, and on this one.
I justify using tables without any alternative for two reasons. Firstly, if you don't have tables available,
all the information is still there, just in a more disjointed form, and, secondly, if you don't have tables
capability then Pic_Index itself isn't going to be of much interest to you anyway as it relies upon tables to
function!
If the content does not fill the 'content' table cell, as here on my browser, then the 'menu' cell defines where the
bottom of the page comes.
It doesn't display as well on Internet Explorer, but then that is unlikely to be used by my main user-group!
Pic_Index itself, however, gives results which work fine on any tables-enabled browser!
If you want to know more, click on that word more!
¹ Actually there are two header files - one for pages in the root directory, and a second for pages which are within their own folder. This is to get the relative menu paths right!
² In fact, I'm now using PHP to interrogate the browser identity string and act accordingly:
If you don't have 'RISC' or 'ANTFresco' or similar in your browser ID string, I include a
message for you suggesting you visit the PCuser page, and I hide the mailto: address from you, replacing it with a contact form.
Last modified: 27 February 2007
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