Adding images directory to PHP echo statement

Use something like this in your code:

<?php if($row_viewtypes['thumblink'] > " ") {$photo = $row_viewtypes['thumblink'];}
   else {$photo = "blank.jpg";} ?>
     <a href="bigships.php5?<?php echo "ref"; ?>=<?php echo $row_viewtypes['ref']; ?>">
     <img src="../thumbs/<?php echo $photo; ?>" alt="The <?php echo $row_viewtypes['shipname']." - Click for a bigger picture"; ?>" name="photo" width="160" height= "120" id="photo" /></a>

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Now the explaination:

Code with remarks follows:

<!--set $photo to the image file name if it exists--> <?php if($row_viewtypes['thumblink'] > " ") {$photo = $row_viewtypes['thumblink'];}

<!-- if not provide a dummy image-->   else {$photo = "blank.jpg";} ?>

<!-- Provide a link to a nother page to show a bigger photo and pass the reference number of the record for that page to use-->

    <a href="bigships.php5?<?php echo "ref"; ?>=<?php echo $row_viewtypes['ref']; ?>">

<--set the path to the image file which is in the thumbs folder, relative to the current page at ../thumbs/  -->

    <img src="../thumbs/<?php echo $photo; ?>"

<!-- add in the alt code from the database --> alt="The <?php echo $row_viewtypes['shipname']." - Click for a bigger picture"; ?>" name="photo" width="160" height= "120" id="photo" /></a>      </div>

See it in action at http://www.tyneships.co.uk

Select searches, Type, and select from the list.

All the photos are store as filenames only in the database, with the actual files being stored as jpg files in the thumbs directory.

Hope this is explained well enough.

Howard Walker