I'm after a web application to display pictures, there are zillions of them out there but it's difficult to find one to match my requirements:-
Take an existing directory hierarchy of pictures and use it to organise the album/gallery. Don't copy the pictures, use them direct from the existing directory structure.
Must not require any write access to the pictures directory. The thumbnails and other information must be stored elsewhere.
No need for any picture manipulation at all, just a way to navigate through the hierarchy and view the pictures.
Preferably no database and the ability to use EXIF information but these are not absolute requirements.
It can use PHP, Python, Perl or anything really, slight preference for Python or PHP as I can modify/maintain it more easily myself then.
Chris Green cl@isbd.net
Take an existing directory hierarchy of pictures and use it to organise the album/gallery. Don't copy the pictures, use them direct from the existing directory structure. Must not require any write access to the pictures directory. The thumbnails and other information must be stored elsewhere. No need for any picture manipulation at all, just a way to navigate through the hierarchy and view the pictures. Preferably no database and the ability to use EXIF information but these are not absolute requirements.
I suspect bpgallery.sh either does this or could be persuaded to do it without too much effort. Depends if by "web application", you mean something doing it live, rather than precompiled. http://sommitrealweird.co.uk/development/bpgallerysh/
Hope that helps,
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:54:26AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
Chris Green cl@isbd.net
Take an existing directory hierarchy of pictures and use it to organise the album/gallery. Don't copy the pictures, use them direct from the existing directory structure. Must not require any write access to the pictures directory. The thumbnails and other information must be stored elsewhere. No need for any picture manipulation at all, just a way to navigate through the hierarchy and view the pictures. Preferably no database and the ability to use EXIF information but these are not absolute requirements.I suspect bpgallery.sh either does this or could be persuaded to do it without too much effort. Depends if by "web application", you mean something doing it live, rather than precompiled. http://sommitrealweird.co.uk/development/bpgallerysh/
It's a bit *too* simple. I need to generate a hierarchy of web pages to match the one that the pictures are in already, there are 20000 or more of them so a single page with that many thumbnails on it would be a little unmanageable!
I'm not actually too fussed whether it's a dynamic application (i.e. does it on the fly as the web user looks at the pictures) or if it generates static pages.
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