# Flash and XML photogallery

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**Created:** [July 2, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-xml-photogallery/192857 "2006-07-02T02:33:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![craeyon](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/craeyon/32/2539_2.png) [@craeyon](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/craeyon)\
**Post date:** [July 2, 2006, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-xml-photogallery/192857/1 "2006-07-02T02:33:15Z")

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The tutorial here was well… very interesting and easy to follow. Thanks Kirupa :). But a question comes to my mind. This is because ia m not very good with AS however iam good with coding. I understand the concept of for loops, conditional loops, declaring variables and understanding program syntax. But AS just screws me over a lot of time.

So my question. What if you wanted to make a photo gallery with dates in it. Meaning a fully automated script that will take a thumbnail for a particular date and make it like so that the user can see the data like this

Photo Album [June 10, 2006]  
Photo Album [June 16, 2006]  
Photo Album [June 21, 2006]

then when they click on it the slidshow under that date starts.

I understand that one way can be by making the xml something like this?

\<Even name and date\>  
-\<image url\>\</image url\>  
-\<caption\>\</caption\>  
-\<image url\>\</image url\>  
-\<caption\>\</caption\>  
\</event name and date\>  
\<Even name and date\>  
-\<image url\>\</image url\>  
-\<caption\>\</caption\>  
-\<image url\>\</image url\>  
-\<caption\>\</caption\>  
\</event name and date\>

But what really confuses me that how will it generate thumbnails and stuff like that and control their over flow? if all of this is possible then how can i do it?

Help!

Thanks  
Craeyon.