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picture slide show from folder

Hello I am looking for a simple picture slide show for my local website.

I want the pictures to auto run in a loop. I have a images folder in my root directory
that I want the slideshow to use as my picture source

I have been looking at a few samples online but only find ones that you have to input the pictures name and format into the code before it displays the image.

thanks

Dave Baldwin

You have to do some programming to make that happen. It also has to be done on the 'server' because HTML and javascript are not allowed to read local directories. While you can use javascript for the slide show, you do have to type the file names into the script.

What web server and OS are you using?

paddy086

ASKER

Hi Dave
It's just a windows 7 pc.
I have just made a simple html page on the computer with a MP4 video playing
I am looking for a slide show to display what ever pictures are put into a image folder. I am not using any xampp or other server.

paddy086

ASKER

Hi Dave

As I have been researching on line some people are doing this with php.
I can install xampp onto the computer and set it up if needed. but would still need help with the codeing of the slideshow

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Gary

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paddy086

ASKER

Thanks Gary
I will install xampp and give it a go I'm just going leave this post open for a day or 2

paddy086

ASKER

Hi Gary

Thanks for the links I tried your suggestions and stumbled across this one. its very similar to the gist github one and works great http://www.ampedwebstandards.com/2009/03/16/tutorial-dynamic-image-slideshow-with-php-jquery/

I don't know if you know a similar one for videos. I would also like an iframe to play any videos put into a folder

thanks

Gary

Most of the popular jquery slideshow plugins can do video
It's just a case of which one you like the best e.g.

http://bxslider.com/examples/video