badgr – dynamic photo badges with PHP and XHR (AJAX)

As part of my last but one chapter of the book (Yay!) I came up with the idea of a dynamic image badge – much like flickr’s badge but one that loads thumbnails from a folder instead of using the flickr REST API.

I christened the solution badgr and would welcome feedback:

• Check out badgr now

What it does is turn a link like:

Animals

into a thumbnail gallery that displays the large photos lightbox style (but without the greying out of the whole page).