I've set up a web gallery with 6 thumbnails per page, etc with php which
is a big complicated mess because I'm not a brilliant programmer... it
is the outgrowth of a couple classes I took at a community college & not
my main career... anyways someone asked me to set up something like that
for their web site and I'm wondering if there is a simpler php package
to accomplish this task. I prepare thumbnails in a subfolder named
thumbs and put annotation in little text files:
_DSC5801.jpg _DSC5801.txt thumbs/_DSC5801.jpg
I've got a copy running on localhost that includes admin stuff for
creating those text files, which most people would probably do using
mySQL (complicated) and you'd still need to set up a boatload of junk
for admin login so I guess those annotations would just have to be
created manually if this solution is going to be simple.
Any ideas?
I maintain another site with mySQL though I needed to hire someone more
fluent to set it up in a reasonable amount of time. Maybe something
simple but generally that gets way too complicated. I'm somewhat
familiar with the gallery package on sourceforge and that's way too
complicated although I suppose there's a way of turning most of the
options off. This is just for a few portfolio pages, it's not a big
complicated thing. For example, this is the output stripped to bare bones:
<a href="0.htm"><img src="thumbs/_PBF5442.jpg"width="100" height="66" </a>
<a href="1.htm"><img src="thumbs/_PBF5447.jpg"width="66" height="100" </a>
<a href="2.htm"><img src="thumbs/_PBF5465.jpg"width="100" height="66" </a>
<a href="3.htm"><img src="thumbs/_PBF5466.jpg"width="100" height="66" </a>
<a href="4.htm"><img src="thumbs/_PBF5476.jpg"width="100" height="66" </a>
<a href="5.htm"><img src="thumbs/_PBF5482.jpg"width="100" height="66" </a>
<br>
<img src="_PBF5466.jpg" title="_PBF5466.jpg" "width="640" height="428"
border="0">
<br>
Annotation here.
Kind of tedious to make six pages though, for each gallery... but still
probably faster than a big complicated project of automating that.
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Paul Furman
www.edgehill.net
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