I'm working on catalog delivery system in our new web site.
one of the media types is "slideshow" and we have a path that we can
programatically build from the database data that knows what year the
photos were taken and has a file ID that match the folder on disk...
After that we also know that the thumbnail/image we want for a
gallery/catalog view is going to be in a folder call "preview"
We also really don't care which thumbnail we use for the catalog,
So of course we could do something like this
on a repeat loop
put "/media/slideshows/" & tYear & "/" & tFileID & "/preview" into
tThumbsFolder
set the defaultfolder to tThumbsFolder=
put line 1 of the files into tGalleryThumb
# then create small function to build the image tag:
put format ("img src=\"" &tThumbsFolder & "/preview/" & tGalleryThumb &
"\" />" into tGalleryImage
and then push that in the table. That's pretty obvious
But I've had trouble in the past with repeatedly with resetting the
default folder on a loop like this and it seems like a lot of disk
reading when we really don't care which file we use and we also a) know
there will always be one and b) it always ends in *.jpg
I am wondering if there is some reg-ex magic that I could use to just
read the first file in say this folder:
/media/slideshows/2008/2008-01-08_cambodia/preview/*.jpg
where by I can avoid having to repeatedly reset the defaultfolder and
get "the files"
i suppose I could use a shell cmd but if you use something like
"/media/slideshows/2008/2008-01-08_cambodia/preview/*.jpg" in a shell
you will get all the files in the folder and not just the first one.
Any ideas?
Brahmanathaswami (new name of he who was formerly Sivakatirswami)
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