Is there any way to make a picture automatically link to itself?

I have a website with a gallery set of pictures I'm working on. The client wants the pictures to be enlarged when users click on them. They are ok with them just opening a link to the picture on a white page that is the path of the picture. I.E http://web.com/folder/picture.jpg.

There are a lot of pictures is there anyway using html, css, or php to to make the pictures开发者_开发百科 automatically link to themselves?

Or

Would it be better to figure out how to make the pictures enlarge themselves after you place the mouse over them for a second or two?

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About the animation for opening the images, you should look at javascript plugins, the term you are looking for is lightbox.

About the 'autoloading' of images, you should take a look at PHP. The fastest why to do that is by loading all the images in a gallery into a separate directory in two sizes (for example /images/thumbs/image_1.jpg and /images/full/image_1.jpg) - use batch resize and save them consistently. That what you do with the PHP is, that you read the directory with this:

$imgs_per_div = 4;
$i = 1;
$images_in_dir = glob("images/thumbs/*.jpg");
foreach ($images_in_dir as $thumb_image)
{
    $filename = basename($thumb_image);
    $large_image = 'images/full/' . $filename;
    if ($i == 1 || $i % $imgs_per_div == 0)
       echo '<div>';
    echo "<a href='$large_image'><img src='$thumb_image'/></a>";
    if ($i % $imgs_per_div + 1 == 0 || $i == count($images_in_dir))
       echo '</div>';
    $i++;
}

I haven't tested the code but it should work for you by setting the correct path to images. This should draw out all images in the preset directory.

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it sounds like your hand coding the html/images? you should be using php to loop through all the images and build the html that way

edit: you should look into using the jquery plugin called fancybox for displaying the full size images, its simple and looks professional

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Consider using a lightbox. They are quite easy to code, and help to create a great user experience. There are also many ready made scripts that you can use by just modifying a couple lines of your code.

http://www.lokeshdhakar.com/projects/lightbox2/