Data reader block
I'm trying to create a mashup that will display thumbnail images and have each image link to a different url.
I used the image scraper to extract a list of all the images i want to use (i had to create such a page on my web site. meaning a page with all the thumbnails). Then connect it to the PhotoFlip block (I like the PhotoTiles better but unfortunately the PhotoFlip is the only one that has a linkUrl field).
The problem is that I have nothing to connect to the linkUrl field.
One solution might be to have the ImageScraper block extract the link that the image links to, and pass that on to the photoflip.
Another solution might be, and this would be good for many projects, is to have a data reader block that knows how to read a table, or a comma-sperated-values file (or, if i'm being really optimistic, a table within a ms access mdb file). Then I would have a table with two columns: the url of the image, and the url the image should link to. And I would connect the block that reads that table into the PhotoFlip.
So what do you say popfly team?
Can you create something like this?
PS: Any chance to add a linkUrl to the PhotoTiles. Like I said, it's way cooler than PhotoFlip....
