imekul
06-21-2008, 12:09 AM
Hi folks,
I operate a website that has been having a new daily photo shown for several years now. Currently, the photo information (file name, date, caption, etc.) is stored in a MySQL database, and I have a PHP script which will pull the info from the DB in order to show the daily photo.
Now I'm trying to figure out an easy way to present the years of archives. I have an HTML calendar which does the job, although it's pretty cumbersome.
So I'd like to use Flash for this. I've seen plenty of attractive photo galleries and a few tutorials, but I haven't quite seen something that would seem to be the right solution to present thousands of photographs.
Here's what I'm thinking of doing in Flash: I'd like to have a large calendar layout, where each day of the calendar has a thumbnail of that day's picture. Click on any of the 31 thumbnails listed in a given month, and you get the full-sized picture. Then from there, you can navigate to previous months, and the Flash file will dynamically load 31 new thumbnails, and then once again the user would have the ability to click on a thumbnail to view the full thing.
I hope this is clear enough. I can picture the finished product in my head, and I think it would be very user-friendly and would be a good way to let people navigator through so many photos.
So I'm trying to get a grasp on where to start here, and I'm open to any suggestions, ranging from given tutorials to look at, to the wisest approach to take, to... anything, really.
I know Flash 8 Pro has a built-in calendar object, the DateChooser. Is there any way to customize that so as to add a background image to each individual day? Or does anybody have an idea of how to create my own calendar?
Any ideas or feedback would be welcome. Thanks for reading this!
Luke
I operate a website that has been having a new daily photo shown for several years now. Currently, the photo information (file name, date, caption, etc.) is stored in a MySQL database, and I have a PHP script which will pull the info from the DB in order to show the daily photo.
Now I'm trying to figure out an easy way to present the years of archives. I have an HTML calendar which does the job, although it's pretty cumbersome.
So I'd like to use Flash for this. I've seen plenty of attractive photo galleries and a few tutorials, but I haven't quite seen something that would seem to be the right solution to present thousands of photographs.
Here's what I'm thinking of doing in Flash: I'd like to have a large calendar layout, where each day of the calendar has a thumbnail of that day's picture. Click on any of the 31 thumbnails listed in a given month, and you get the full-sized picture. Then from there, you can navigate to previous months, and the Flash file will dynamically load 31 new thumbnails, and then once again the user would have the ability to click on a thumbnail to view the full thing.
I hope this is clear enough. I can picture the finished product in my head, and I think it would be very user-friendly and would be a good way to let people navigator through so many photos.
So I'm trying to get a grasp on where to start here, and I'm open to any suggestions, ranging from given tutorials to look at, to the wisest approach to take, to... anything, really.
I know Flash 8 Pro has a built-in calendar object, the DateChooser. Is there any way to customize that so as to add a background image to each individual day? Or does anybody have an idea of how to create my own calendar?
Any ideas or feedback would be welcome. Thanks for reading this!
Luke