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1. The PhotoDetail Class: displays an enlarged view of the photo when a thumbnail is selected.
2. Slide Show Functionality within the PhotoDetail Class. One photo gradually dissolves into the next.
3. Slide Show Intervals: Allow for automatic operation of the slideshow with a timer interval of 5 seconds.

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Want to create a photo album for your website? This tutorial uses ActionScript to create a Flash photo album. The photos are stored externally and neatly organized using XML. Support for XML is one nice feature of ActionScript. No need to use DOM methods to traverse the XML file. Directly access XML content through tag names and attributes.

This tutorial describes how to use ActionScript to read an XML file and create thumbnails. SimplePhotoBox is a Flash application that reads XML and image files exported from Picasa and displays a professional looking Photo Gallery and Slide Show.

Demo of the SimplePhotoBox Gallery

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Customize the display of your RSS feed using HTML and PHP. Starting with PHP version 5, SimpleXML loads, and parses an XML document. SimpleXML makes it easier to get access to xml content. Take a look at this simple example.

View a Demo: Yahoo News Feed
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Sarissa was developed to allow cross-browser support for manipulating XML files.  This is important for web pages accessing XML with JavaScript.  Firefox, IE and Safari implementations of JavaScript each handle XML files differently. Sarissa is a set of downloadable JavaScript files that standardize XML manipulation.

PHOTO GALLERY USING XML

Several popular web based photo applications (Picasa and JAlbum) have export options that can generate XML files along with photo images to create a photo album in a web page. I have created a simple implementation that uses a similar approach. Sarissa methods parse the file: sherrypicsmenu.xml for image files and thumbnail files. HTML code is inserted into the web page to display a thumbnail bar, and detail photo images.
View the Simple XML Photo Gallery
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