[plug] displaying images on website

[Shannon Carver]

I'll second Gallery, it's a fantastic product.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Josh Fletcher
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 8:36 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: RE: [plug] displaying images on website
> 
> Jon,
> 
> You can get open source packages that are easy to install that handle all
> this kind of stuff, and you won't have to pay anyone to do it.
> 
> Try http://gallery.menalto.com/
> 
> Or
> 
> http://coppermine.sf.net/
> 
> If you need help setting it up I wouldn't mind...
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Josh Fletcher
> McDowall Affleck Pty Ltd
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On Behalf
> Of Jon Miller
> Sent: Tuesday, 12 September 2006 8:12 AM
> To: plug at plug.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] displaying images on website
> 
> What I ultimately would want is a web page that displays my photos as I've
> started to do more shootings and certain people (models) needs to view the
> pages.  So if someone can quote me on a decent web page design I would
> appreciate it.  I'll need to update the page every so often.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> >>> weirdit at gmail.com 7:49:34 am 12/09/2006 >>>
> On 9/12/06, Jon  Miller <jlmiller at mmtnetworks.com.au> wrote:
> > Like to know if there is a way to display images automatically on a
> website.  I have some images that I would to have displayed when a user
> access the website.  I need to make it simple as the number of images will
> grow over time.  I'm using Apache web server on a Debian server.
> 
> I'm assuming you want some sort of 'auto' gallery??
> 
> What scripting language does the webserver use?
> 
> You could do a really simple "ls *.jpg" glob in php, and then a
> foreach on that array, to display the images.
> 
> Or do a google for things like web gallery, auto scan directory, etc
> etc. I would try and find you one, but I'm a little short on time
> before work (and after today).
> 
> I do have a script on my webserver, that could be adapted to scan a
> directory of images (mine are named in a special format, so you can
> extract meta information out of the title) and display thumbnails of
> all the images, and on clicking the thumbnails, show the original. If
> you want, I'll get that somewhere suitable for you.
> 
> Tim
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