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I've working on my website right now and am incorporating a random image script into the homepage. Now, I've got it working fine in that it's showing the image, adding a border and setting the image size (after a little tweaking), but I've run into a problem.

I need to add a link to the full-sized image onto the image that's shown from the Javascript code. Now I could obviously just add a <a href="file.JPG"> tag into the document.write function, but this is explicit and won't vary with the random image generation - thus, it will link to the same file, regardless of what image is being shown.

Here's the script as it is right now.

From <HEAD>;

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">




var theImages = new Array()






theImages[0] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file1.JPG'


theImages[1] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file2.JPG'


theImages[2] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file3.JPG'


theImages[3] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file4.JPG'




var j = 0


var p = theImages.length;


var preBuffer = new Array()


for (i = 0; i < p; i++){


   preBuffer[i] = new Image()


   preBuffer[i].src = theImages[i]


}


var whichImage = Math.round(Math.random()*(p-1));


function showImage(){


document.write('<img border="2" src="'+theImages[whichImage]+'" width="150" height="112">');


}




//  End -->
From <BODY>; 
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">




showImage();


	</script>

Anyone got any ideas on how I can add a link to the generated image? Is here any way of interrupting the document.write to throw the image string in there, so it could begin to write the document.write, write the a href tag, pause to insert the path of the file from the string (theImages), then resume the document.write to actually create the line and add in the rest of the code for the border and size etc.?

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I don't have much experience with javascript, but I don't understand why you have

src="'+theImages[whichImage]+'"

What are the single quotes for?

Edit:

Isn't this the correct way to use document.write() ?

document.write("<FONT COLOR="#FF0000">")
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document.write("<img border="2" src=""+theImages[whichImage]+"" width="150" height="112">");

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The first quote opens the field, the first apostrophe breaks it to insert the string, the second apostrophe signals the end of the break and the second quote closes the field. So if the string contents of "+theImages[whichImage]+" were "file1.JPG", the final document.write after processing would be;

document.write('<img border="2" src="file1.JPG" width="150" height="112"">');

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The first quote opens the field, the first apostrophe breaks it to insert the string, the second apostrophe signals the end of the break and the second quote closes the field. So if the string contents of "+theImages[whichImage]+" were "file1.JPG", the final document.write after processing would be;

document.write('<img border="2" src="file1.JPG" width="150" height="112"">');

Okay, it looks like there are two ways to do it then. Coming from a c++ background, I'm used to the other way.

The first few sites I went to showed the other way.

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What I would do is change your array to:


theImages[0] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file1'

theImages[1] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file2'

theImages[2] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file3'

theImages[3] = 'folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/file4'



Then in your image address you will have to add .jpg to it.



Then name your full sized image something similar, or use a different file extension.



Examples:  

file1full.jpg

file1.png



That should make creating the link to the full size image easier.



			
		


		

		
			

		
	


	

	





	
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I was trying something similar to that before I coded the border and size properties into the document.write. I created resized copies of the original files to 150x112 and told the array to load them, which did look much better because I had already resized the images in PSP8 rather than the direct pixel resizing that browsers do, but it means having copies of all the files to be used in the random image script, which will be...well, unlimited. Even if I only have 200 images to be used in the script, at 5.26KB per image, that's over 1MB just for small thumbnails which won't be used 99% of the time. I don't mind using 512x384 thumbnails which link to 1600x1200 images like on the actual gallery, but for a random image script, it's a little too much. Even then, with that done, I'd still have to figure out how to put the actual link itself into the document.write.



God, I can't believe it's so hard to throw a link into this script...I haven't slept, so I might just be overlooking it.



			
		


		

		
			

		
	


	

	





	
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Got it! God, and so obvious as well. I tried this 10 minutes ago and it didn't work, but I just tried it again when I thought of something else and noticed I hadn't closed the tag correctly first time around. The working document.write is as follows;




document.write('<a href="'+theImages[whichImage]+'"><img border="2" src="'+theImages[whichImage]+'" width="150" height="112">');



Now to begin screwing around with the string...I'll not get much sleep this weekend, methinks. ;)



Thanks for your help Ty. Much appreciated. :)



			
		


		

		
			

		
	


	

	





	
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