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What is the easiest one or two line script/html that will serve an infinite slide show out of a
folder of images?
ChatGPT
You can achieve an infinite slideshow with a simple HTML script using JavaScript. Here's a basic example:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<base href="https://gfy.com/" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->
<base href="https://gfy.com/" /><!--[if IE]></base><![endif]-->
Ignore this line; was inserted by gfy because I didn't use the code tags
<title>Infinite Slideshow</title>
<style>
#slideshow {
position: relative;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
margin: auto;
}
img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="slideshow"></div>
<script>
var images = ["image1.jpg", "image2.jpg", "image3.jpg"]; //
List your image filenames here
var index = 0;
function nextImage() {
index = (index + 1) % images.length;
document.getElementById('slideshow').innerHTML = '<img src="' + images[index] + '">';
setTimeout(nextImage, 3000); // Change slide every 3 seconds (adjust as needed)
}
nextImage(); // Start the slideshow
</script>
</body>
</html>
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How can I do this from a folder of images though?
ChatGPT
To create a slideshow from a folder of images dynamically, you'll need to use server-side scripting languages like PHP to fetch the images from the folder and then serve them to the client-side script. Here's how you can modify the previous example to achieve this using PHP:
Create an HTML file (e.g., slideshow.html) with the following content:
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Infinite Slideshow</title>
<style>
#slideshow {
position: relative;
max-width: 100%;
max-height: 100%;
margin: auto;
}
img {
width: 100%;
height: auto;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="slideshow"></div>
<script>
var images = <?php echo json_encode(glob('images/*.jpg')); ?>;
var index = 0;
function nextImage() {
index = (index + 1) % images.length;
document.getElementById('slideshow').innerHTML = '<img src="' + images[index] + '">';
setTimeout(nextImage, 3000); // Change slide every 3 seconds (adjust as needed)
}
nextImage(); // Start the slideshow
</script>
</body>
</html>
That worked; but the file has to have PHP extension
