I, too, am a super newbie. I have a beginning knowledge of being able to "read" php and understand its syntax but I can¹t write it. This is a bit complicated but here¹s my problem: I want to create a variable in PHP that I can use to link to an image in our museum's image website. We have done it with ColdFusion here but I need the same thing for PHP because I¹m building a site using a php-based CMS called Omeka. In ColdFusion the variable is written: <cfset tmpImageDirectory = getToken(artwork.accessionNumber, 1, ".")> Basically, it¹s saying find the image on our server by looking for its accession number within the year directory. Since the first part of the accession number is the year we got the artwork this variable is saying look for the accession number in the year directory by first looking at the first part of that accession number (the year), look in that year directory and then use the entire accession number to find the image within that directory. An example of an accession number is 2011.15. That¹s saying that artwork was the 15th artwork brought into our collection in 2011. On our image server it will be found in a directory called 2011. (Am I making sense?) Then the Coldfusion call is: <a href="http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://americanart .si.edu/images/#tmpImageDirectory#/#artwork.accessionNumber#_1a.jpg"> (the 1a.jpg is simply the size image we want to call). I need to be able to do the same thing with PHP but have no idea how. More information: within my site I¹m housing the accession number in a mySQL database. I¹ve gotten a bit of help on this already (but not enough, that¹s why I¹m turning to you). I was told I need to create two variables [('Dublin Core','Identifier') is the name of the field that houses the accession number): $accessionNumber = item('Dublin Core','Identifier'); $tmpImageDirectory = strtok($accessionNumber,"."); And then create a third variable to create a url variable $url = "http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://americanart.si.e du/images/ <http://ids.si.edu/ids/dynamic?container.fullpage&id=http://americanart.si.e du/images/$tmpImageDirectory/$artwork.accessionNumber_1a.jpg> " + $tmpImageDirectory + "/" + $accessionNumber + "_1ajpg"; That's as far as I've gotten. I don't know how to put all of these together using proper PHP syntax. Can someone help me with this? Thanks. Best, Jeff -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
