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fancy Photo Gallery question?

skelliser · 2009-01-16 16:24:46

Where can i get one of those gallerys that expand to fill the screen and the background fades or gets very dark? Is it availible in PHP, or is it a standalone application our can i code one up myself? any links would be great. Cheers

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16-01-2009 5:24pm

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skelliser

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Where can i get one of those gallerys that expand to fill the screen and the background fades or gets very dark?
Is it availible in PHP, or is it a standalone application our can i code one up myself?

any links would be great.
Cheers

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#2 16-01-2009 5:27pm
Goodshape

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It's Javascript and there are a number of methods available.

Here's one : http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

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#3 16-01-2009 5:33pm
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thanks!
was googling for ages and couldnt find one! is it possible to link it to a database?

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#4 16-01-2009 7:41pm
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Not directly... it's a front-end script which alters the behavior of the HTML.

But if you use PHP/MySQL/whatever to grab the images from a database and output the HTML as is required by Lightbox then yes, you can have Lightbox work with it.

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