Re: Grabbing last file...

* Thus wrote Ashley M. Kirchner: > > I have a capture script that runs every 2 minutes and dumps an image > into a folder. I'm trying to write a script (which will get included in > another) that will grab the last image in the folder and pass it on. > > The images are saved as 'capture.####.jpg' where #### is the > timestamp of the capture , starting at midnight, or 0000, and going till > 2358. The structure of the folder is as follows: > > /capture/.year/month/day/capture.####.jpg > >... > > And all it has to do is figure out the last file, generate an > <img...> tag and return it. Voila. have your image generation script do somthing like this: 1. generate new image /capture/.year/month/day/capture.#.jpg 2. copy /capture/.year/month/day/capture.#.jpg /capture/current.jpg That way you can simply put in your img tag: <img src="/capture/current.jpg"> Curt -- First, let me assure you that this is not one of those shady pyramid schemes you've been hearing about. No, sir. Our model is the trapezoid!