Simplistic approach help for me

gpuerrilla · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:09

Guys I was wondering if you can point me in the right direction on a small web-page I want to work/practice on.

I have hosting and it provides MySQL, php facility (had this for some years but rarely use it due to other projects at work and little time) and I want to dabble in a simple display of data.

Basically what Im after is a list of information which will be held in the database, and with this an image. Rather than storing the image in the db (as i reckon this wont be the way) was wondering if hovering over the information or clicking it to bring up the image. Am I on the right path or is there a more direct way to achieve this?

Any advice im grateful for!

Th0nt

gpuerrilla · 27 Sep 2009 at 17:51

Thanks for your reply Nathan.

At the moment all I have done is a simple database with about 5 fields, and in my last field it contains the link address for the image. As it gets tricky displaying this from here I was wondering what other experienced people would tackle this with?

gpuerrilla · 27 Sep 2009 at 18:04

Each record just would link to one specific image. Basically all im doing is a list of hills, some data like feet in height then I would like ot be able to view an image of the gradient. Probably simple but I seldom do web stuff nowadays..

gpuerrilla · 27 Sep 2009 at 20:44

Ahh OK then maybe badly described by me but I will expand as best I can.

The images will eventually be stored in a folder on my web-space, so the main information is stored in a single table in the database that I update as and when. All I would want is a simple page to display each entry, I just don't know what's the best way of displaying the gradient image, maybe only if the user requests it via a click or directly displaying it so people can glance at thumbnails?

I was originally going to use a blog like wordpress and include this inside. Maybe im complicating things but figured forumites here would know the best/simplest way to achieve what im after so that I dont waste hours/days on something that is a polished turd.