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AUTOSLIDER v0.9 ------------------------------------- 15 Dec 2000
PHP script for simple automated slide presentations
Italian Network of Telepathology and University of Udine, Italy
Copyright (C) 2000-02 Vincenzo Della Mea, University of Udine, Italy.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.html)
as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
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FILES
autoslider.tar contains the following files:
- autoslider.php : main PHP script
- asg/ : directory containing button graphics for the pages (next.gif, prev.gif, etc)
-conf.inc: sample configuration file to be put in the presentation folder
- README : this file
INSTALLATION
Just untar autoloader.tar inside a web-accessible directory, then setup the variables as explained below.
USAGE
Inside autoslider.php, set $slidebase as the URL of the directory where presentations are
kept (even on another server); it is near the <body> tag.
Each presentation is a folder, containing images with names
1.ext, 2.ext, ... N.ext. In addition, each folder contains a conf.inc
file where title, author, homepage, homepage name, file extension, and
eventually number of slides (in the $last variable) are to be set.
A sample conf.inc file is provided with these files.
You can run a presentation with:
<your-url>/autoslider.php?presentation=foldername[&n=slidenumber]
Each page will display title, author, 4 buttons for navigating into
the presentation.
EXAMPLE
at the URL http://your.site.com/dir1/dir2/slides/ there are the
following folders: phpcourse, htmlcourse. Each of them contains the
files named 1.jpg, 2.jpg, etc., and a conf.inc file:
%> ls slides/*:
phpcourse:
1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg 6.jpg
7.jpg 8.jpg 9.jpg 10.jpg 11.jpg 12.jpg conf.php
phpcourse:
1.jpg 2.jpg 3.jpg 4.jpg 5.jpg 6.jpg
7.jpg 8.jpg 9.jpg 10.jpg 11.jpg 12.jpg conf.php
The conf.php file inside phpcourse such file will have the following content:
<?php
$title = "Beatiful PHP Course";
$author = "Phil H.P. Expert, 11/2000";
$homepage ="http://ppp.hhh.ppp/~php/";
$homename = "Teaching material of P.H.P. Expert";
$imagetype =".jpg";
$last = 12; //optional
?>
Your customized autoslider.php file can be put everywhere, e.g. at
http://your.site.com/autoslider.php and will contain these code lines:
$slidebase = "http://your.site.com/dir1/dir2/slides/";
$homepage = "http://www.yous.site.com/";
To show the first presentation from the beginning, it can be called
as follows:
http://your.site.com/autoslider.php?presentation=phpcourse
To start from the fourth slide,
http://your.site.com/autoslider.php?presentation=phpcourse&n=4
To show the other presentation,
http://your.site.com/autoslider.php?presentation=htmlcourse
To show just a subset of presentation you might just pass the "last"
parameter too:
http://your.site.com/autoslider.php?presentation=phpcourse&n=4&last=7