So here's how this ChatGPT coding process works. If you explain what you want correctly, it will give you back complete functioning code that you can upload to your server.

Here's what I asked:

We've been working on the code for my new slideshow program that display's AI generated images.

It resides at http://omjshow.com/?s=, and the parameter is the name of the directory on my server, where a particular set of images is. ex: http://omjshow.com/?s=coffeecap.

The program is an index.html. The first thing it does is present an About Page, which gives credits and instructions. When you click the Start the Show button, it falls down into the code, retrieves the images from the directory at ?s=, and starts the slideshow.

There is also a link in there that shows all of the available galleries, and presents them as links, so you can start then with a click, which restarts index.html with the selected gallery passed as an ?s= parameter.

Both code sets work great, don't want to mess with anything. But, I would like to add a second parameter to the index.html, which would bypass the About Page, and start the slide show immediately. This would be generated from gallery.html, and the show would start without the About Page.

So, http://omjshow.com/?s=coffeecap would become http://omjshow.com/?s=coffeecap&a=1, with the extra parameter added on, to act as a switch, telling index.html to skip the About Page and play the slideshow.

This would be generated by the gallery.html links. Obviously if no switch, the About Page would appear.

Let me upload the production version of index.html so you can include that switch, and the gallery.html code that would set that switch when it runs the program from a click.

When you're ready, I'll upload index.html, followed by gallery.html. Return both blocks of updated code completely, so I can just replace them on the server.

I have no idea what a good switch code would be in the url, but I see it as a single digit, something like http://omjshow.com/?s=coffeecap?a=1. If the second parameter is missing, just start with the About Page, otherwise skip it. What do you think?

ChatGPT's response:

Perfect plan. Using a second URL parameter like a=1 to act as a switch for skipping the About Page is totally solid. I’d recommend naming it something a little more meaningful (like auto=1 or start=1), but if you prefer short and sweet, a=1 is just fine. We’ll just look for that parameter in index.html, and if it’s present, we bypass the About Page and start the slideshow directly.

Yes, go ahead and upload both your current index.html and gallery.html files. Once I have them, I’ll return fully updated versions of both with the changes in place:

index.html will check for the a=1 parameter and skip the About Page if present.

gallery.html will generate links like ?s=coffeecap&a=1 so they launch the slideshow immediately.

Ready when you are—send over the files!

It took a little tweaking, but we got it done.

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