# How'd they do THIS?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/howd-they-do-this/115979>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 13, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/howd-they-do-this/115979 "2004-07-13T17:02:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![niki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@niki](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/niki)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2004, 5:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/howd-they-do-this/115979/1 "2004-07-13T17:02:45Z")

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[http://www.flink.be/useagain/gallery/index.php?myDir=opening%20night](http://www.flink.be/useagain/gallery/index.php?myDir=opening%20night)

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**Author:** ![Flink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/919ad9/32.png) [@Flink](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Flink)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 9:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/howd-they-do-this/115979/2 "2004-07-26T09:03:50Z")

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Credits for this gallery need to go out to CraftyMind over at the twelvestone forums. The principle is quite simple: a PHP reads the contents of a directory and spits out an XML with all image names and widths/heights of all JPG’s in that particular directory. Flash reads this XML and then starts loading all images.

```auto
<?
$xml = '<?xml version="1.0"?'.'>';
$handle = opendir(".");
while ( ($file=readdir($handle)) !== false ) {
	if ( !is_dir($file) ){
		$pic = @getimagesize($file);
		if($pic != false && $pic[2] == 2){
			$xml .= '<img src="'.$file.'" width="'.$pic[0].'" height="'.$pic[1].'" />';
		}
	}
}
echo $xml;
?>

```

The animation is done with actionscript tweening, making use of Robert Penners easing functions (see [www.robertpenner.com or [url=“http://www.ultrashock.com”]www.ultrashock.com](http://www.robertpenner.com) for more info on this).

If you want to know more about it, download the sourcefiles or see some of your questions answered: read more about it here: [http://www.twelvestone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15182](http://www.twelvestone.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15182)

Have fun with it!!

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**Author:** ![niki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c57346/32.png) [@niki](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/niki)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 11:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/howd-they-do-this/115979/3 "2004-07-26T11:42:07Z")

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YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!  
THANKS!!!  
xoxoxoxox