Thread: Scrolling / Changing Photo on site using AJAX?

Hi All,
I have been thinking that one of my sites has a static image and it would be really good to be able to rotate through a folder of them...I initially thought Flash, but then installed the 'Featured Posts' script on my site. And there you will see that it 'drags' one Feature Post off and replaces with another and I was hoping this could be done with images too!

Any guidance and where to start would be appreciated, I am not a AJAX coder by any stretch of the imagination! But willing to try!

Cheers,

Graham.

You could load an array of image paths and then use a JavaScript timer to trigger the change of src for the display image to a new one from the array. If dealing with a lot of images, you could load the first 10 into an array, then after you loop through those, call an AJAX function to retrieve the next ten and repeat that process.

Originally Posted by jmurrayhead

You could load an array of image paths and then use a JavaScript timer to trigger the change of src for the display image to a new one from the array. If dealing with a lot of images, you could load the first 10 into an array, then after you loop through those, call an AJAX function to retrieve the next ten and repeat that process.

Sounds like a good starting point! Will that scroll them off to the side though or just replace the one that is there?

That would just replace what was there...you could check over at dynamicdrive.com for some type of scroll script, though.