PHP for Absolute Beginners

CHAPTER 4

Building a Dynamic Image Gallery with Image Upload

You know how to make a simple dynamic web site. You know how to write a form. You know how to access URL variables with $_GET or $_POST. I say it’s time to put your new knowledge to good use. Let’s build a dynamic image gallery with a form to allow users to upload new images to the gallery. In the process, you will learn quite a bit.

• Set up a dynamic site.
• Write named functions.
• Use $_GET and $_POST superglobal arrays.
• Iterate with a while loop.
• Use PHP’s native DirectoryIterator class.
• Write custom object methods.
• Upload files with PHP’s $_FILES superglobal array.
• Plan and code a ...