Before you go off and design a page which builds up a fixed row/column scheme for images, please consider doing it with a free-flowing approach, with CSS. An example is my "Quick Pix" image gallery. I didn't invent the CSS methods to do it, but the code and the markup is pretty straightforward.

Stretch the page's width and watch it lay out different numbers of columns. Unless you REALLY need something to be tabular, try to avoid <table>...</table> markup.

As for the thumbnails, you should also probably do that work once, instead of having the web server do that work thousands of times. I do it on my local machine, as a part of the process of uploading the images. I don't expect my web server to do any real work beyond delivering bits.

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In reply to Re: reading all images in a directory by halley
in thread reading all images in a directory by Anonymous Monk

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