Load Random Images from Website

DGYWFT · 02-13-2009, 01:42 AM

Hello, I am complete newbie to Cocoa and iPhone development, so bare with me if you can. I come from a PHP/Javascript background, and will develop an app that can load random images from my website. I am curious, is the best way to achieve this is just develop the code in PHP, and use a UIWebview to load this page or can I develop this using a normal UIImageView and pass the info via my website?

Any help / advice would be greatly appreciated and look forward to joining in on this forum's discussions.

yonnage · 02-13-2009, 01:51 AM

The easiest by far would be just have a PHP script that returns a random image, and use a UIWebView that points to that script. But you can do it either way, depending on what you want to do with the image(s) you get back..

DGYWFT · 02-13-2009, 01:58 AM

Thanks for the fast reply and help!

I don't plan to do anything with the images when they are loaded, its more of a load random images full screen thing. For example: app loads and random image loads. Hit a button, another random image loads. Super simple really.

So I assume if you ever just intend to search a site/online for images, with no real need to save them locally to the iphone, just use UIWebview?

yonnage · 02-13-2009, 02:11 AM

Yes.. but then again this would be only as simple as described above if you were hitting a PHP script you controlled, that just displayed a random image.

If you wanted the iPhone to do the job of grabbing a random image from a random site(without any PHP script you controlled), then it would be a lot more work to develop for the iPhone.

DGYWFT · 02-13-2009, 02:13 AM

yonnage, thanks for the help! UIWebview it is then!