Image Gallery help needed

Posted in alt.comp.lang.php before I saw how much more active this group
is... Hope someone can help.

I am new to this group and needing a little bit of guidance. First off I
need to say that I'm also new to php but am certain that I could work with
it enough to accomplish this task so please be patient with my question.
I'm trying to find if possible, a script that would allow the viewing of two
different images side by side on the same page similar to the "Comparometer"
found at http://www.imaging-resource.com/IMCOMP/COMPS01.HTM
Right now, I think the frames and drop down menus using the image name would
work fine
rather than using any kind of thumbnail. More importantly, the menus need to
be database driven so that the user can simply upload the finial images to a
folder and have the menus automatically filled in with the file names. This
may be asking a lot, but it's for a very worthy cancer screening clinic
where the doctors would be comparing images taken at different time
intervals of the same patient hence the desire for the side by side
comparison. The file names could simply be the patient's code and date so
text links would actually be preferable to thumbs. I would like to make this
as simple as possible for the person uploading the images. The images will
be final edited prior to uploading so no online manipulation is necessary.
Also, I would like to have the images easily linked to larger images that
the doctors could use to view or print in an easy fashion. I've used both
Gallery and Gallery2 on my own site but really don't think this is worth
pursuing for their needs. I would happily donate (or accept a donation) of
any software that would help do all of this if anyone can point me in the
right direction. Thanks in advance.

Peter

re: Image Gallery help needed

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from peterf contained the following:
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>More importantly, the menus need to
>be database driven so that the user can simply upload the finial images to a
>folder and have the menus automatically filled in with the file names.[/color]

Well unless you want to add extra information you don't need a database
for that. You can list the files in a directory quite easily. I wrote a
very basic script that allows me to upload images to a folder. The
script checks to see if a thumbnail image exists and the creates one if
it doesn't. It then displays them as links to the larger image. This
may be of some use to you.

http://www.ckdog.co.uk/jladder/filesresample.php

code:
http://www.ckdog.co.uk/jladder/filesresample.phps

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> The file names could simply be the patient's code and date so
>text links would actually be preferable to thumbs.[/color]

Not a problem

http://www.ckdog.co.uk/jladder/filename.php

Or you could have both.
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>I would like to make this
>as simple as possible for the person uploading the images.[/color]

Just use an ftp program.
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>The images will
>be final edited prior to uploading so no online manipulation is necessary.
>Also, I would like to have the images easily linked to larger images that
>the doctors could use to view or print in an easy fashion.[/color]

Very simple to get a prototype working the way I have described.
Contact me if you need any help. Watch out for the spam trap.



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re: Image Gallery help needed

Thank you very much Geoff, I will try this out just as soon as I finish work
today. I also found a program called FTPAutoGen that ostensibly will
monitor a folder and automatically upload the modified files. Thanks also
for the offer of help.. I'm certain I will need a bit :-)

Regards,
Peter

re: Image Gallery help needed

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from peterf contained the following:
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>Thank you very much Geoff, I will try this out just as soon as I finish work
>today. I also found a program called FTPAutoGen that ostensibly will
>monitor a folder and automatically upload the modified files. Thanks also
>for the offer of help.. I'm certain I will need a bit :-)[/color]

Cool. Let me know how you get on.


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My opinions, not the committee's, mine.
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