--- Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone done a CGI that runs a slide show? > > basically you have a folder of images, user clicks > "Next" or "Previous" > and the CGI drives a new image and text into the > same screen. > > If this could be an embedded object, great, > otherwise, a complete web > screen built from a template or something... the > only caveat is > of course, Rev has no session variables... so how do > we store the users' > current place in the slide show? If user ONE is > flipping through the > slide show and is on slide 5 and user TWO is > flipping through the slide > show and is on slide 8, where does that > information live? I suppose > one could generate a hidden input variable on the > fly, embed this in > the page as a input if we want to use POST or as a > GET parameter > in the cgi "next" button which is passed to the CGI > in $QUERY or > possibly we save cookie info? > > I recall some mentioned a few years back about > someone successfully > embedding stuff in a web page with CGI; I can also > use iFrame which is > considered non-standard, and deprecated > (I don't know why... it works fine...I use it now.) > Or push the show to a new top window which contains > the entire > presentation and no other elements. > > I see lots of ways of doing this pretty easily, but > before digging into it I just wanted to check before > re-inventing the > wheel. > > TIA > > Sivakatirswami >
Hi Swami, While I can't give you a cgi script, here's my idea on how I'd tackle this: put a form in the resulting html file, with a hidden field that contains the current slide number. <html> <body> <form action="http://example.com/cgi-bin/slideshow.rev"; method="POST"> ... the normal stuff that includes the image ... <input name="currentImage" type="hidden" value="5"> <input name="action" type="submit" value="Previous"> <input name="action" type="submit" value="Next"> </form> </body> </html> Your cgi will receive the 'currentImage' and 'action' parameters and will be able to determine what to do next. For more complete control, you could also add a hidden input that has the slideshow images directory. Hope this gets you started, Jan Schenkel. Quartam Reports for Revolution <http://www.quartam.com> ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
