Russ Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 I am trying to set up a online family photo album. I would like each photo to be a separate web page - I plan on having an index page with thumbnails, each of which will link to a larger photo of the thumbnail. I have a lot of photos. My questions is, do I have to manually set up each individual photo page, or is there some way to set up a template with variables (where the variables would be the image and a caption), and then use a merge type function to generate all the individual photopages (kind of like you can do with a word processing program where you have a form letter, and merge the names and address of the recipients)? Does this question make sense? Quote
shakes Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 your "template with variables" option could be done with PHP. I can tell you, though, that making something like a photo album (and making it good) will take many coding hours. I would check out some pre-exisiting programs. gallery is a good one a lot of people use ... pretty easy to set up. http://gallery.sourceforge.net you can see what it looks like running at my gallery another one is called ... coppermine? http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/ this one uses mysql and whatnot. I've been thinking abou switching but i need to play with it more to see if i like it. Quote
TCH-Dick Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 I deleted your other post since it was the same question. you only need to post once, someone will see it and answer as soon as they can. Quote
Russ Posted October 26, 2003 Author Posted October 26, 2003 Sorry about the duplicate post. I wasn't sure where (under which forum heading) it should have gone. Quote
RJSkon Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 Russ In the past I have used the "Web Page Generator" function that is included in an image program called CompuPic, I used it to set up some progress photos on a construction project. All you have to do is pick the images that you want to use, set the criteria that you want and the program will create all the thumbnails and HTML pages and all you have to do is upload all the files that it creates. Here is a sample of a couple of the pages, http://www.rjskon.com/photo_gen/page1.html Richard Quote
Deverill Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 I use the script described at http://photoframe.sourceforge.net/ for doing my thumbnails on the newer stuff. The old stuff is on the "when I get a chance" list. Anyway, it is really nice in that you just put the photos in a folder at full size and it uses PHP's graphics library to create the thumbnails for you! I love this feature because I used to spend hours making thumbs. It has pretty good features to customize it with headers, etc. and the only snag I hit was that it needs a directory named thumbs/ that has specific permissions set. That part was a pain but it works for me and I like it so give it a peek. You can see one of my pages using it at http://www.covenantwordchurch.org/MissionT...reach/index.php (sorry for the long URL). There are probably better ones but this was the first one I hit upon that I liked. Quote
criosa Posted October 26, 2003 Posted October 26, 2003 the PHP/MySQL photo gallery I'm currently using is 4images. http://www.4homepages.de/ you can use a translator (like google's) to read the german parts. I've also tried gallery, and liked it, but it didn't do everything I would have liked it to. (wanted to try coppermine, but at the time there was issues with the old site and I stumbled on 4images.) also, if you use Dreamweaver, I believe there's a photo gallery option - point it at an image directory and it'll make pages for you. ~Christy http://gallery.dancers-tale.com Quote
Russ Posted October 27, 2003 Author Posted October 27, 2003 I have a really dumb question....are these programs already on the server, if not how do you get them on the server? Quote
TCH-Don Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 There are a number of third party apps that are one click install from your cpanel see Third Party Apps on the help site, including Gallery that might do what you want. The instructions need to be follwed step by step, but they do work. LOL if I can do it, you can, have fun. Quote
silica Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 From the Coppermine site, here are the current requirements (version 1.2RC): Coppermine Photo Gallery has been tested working well on IIS, Apache 1.3.24 onwards to the latest Apache2, on Linux, UNIX, OSX, and Win32 systems (read: Microsoft Windows FAQ/how-to [soon!]).The following settings are required: - Good webserver (Apache recommended); - PHP (4.1.0 or better); - MySQL (3.23.23 or better; 4.x recommended); - either GD or ImageMagick (any version); My review of TCH's site indicates that all these are available, with the exception that PHP is listed as version 4.0.15. Quote
TCH-Don Posted October 27, 2003 Posted October 27, 2003 (edited) Current version according to the hosting plans and the help site is PHP Version 4.3.2 so you should have no trouble running Coppermine Edited October 27, 2003 by turtle Quote
Russ Posted October 27, 2003 Author Posted October 27, 2003 I was searching around on the web and came across a program named "Web Album Generator". Anyone ever used it or heard of it? It looks like it may do the trick. Quote
Russ Posted October 28, 2003 Author Posted October 28, 2003 I am trying to install Coppermine. I note from the link turtle provides above to "Third Party" applications that ImageMagick is on our server. The installation script for Coppermine askes for the path to ImageMagick. Can anyone shed some light on what that would be? Quote
TCH-Don Posted October 28, 2003 Posted October 28, 2003 name and path ImageMagick convert = /usr/local/bin/convert you may only need to select ImageMagick and use the default paths Quote
Russ Posted October 28, 2003 Author Posted October 28, 2003 Forgive my slow learning curve ....The prompt asks for the path, do I enter "ImageMagick convert = /usr/local/bin/convert" or "/usr/local/bin/convert", or some other variation? Thanks for the help. Quote
TCH-Don Posted October 28, 2003 Posted October 28, 2003 (edited) Sorry, just the path /usr/local/bin/convert EDIT just found this using Gallery Diagnostics. Checking /usr/bin/identify Ok! Version: ImageMagick 5.5.1 10/20/02 Q16 Checking /usr/bin/convert Ok! Version: ImageMagick 5.5.1 10/20/02 Q16 Checking /usr/bin/composite Ok! Version: ImageMagick 5.5.1 10/20/02 Q16 so the path is /usr/bin Edited October 28, 2003 by turtle Quote
Russ Posted October 28, 2003 Author Posted October 28, 2003 Thanks for yor help, turtle. Can I continue to impose? The documentation reads as follows: "Path to ImageMagick 'convert' utility (example /usr/bin/X11/) If you are using ImageMagick convert utility to resize you picture, you must enter the name of the directory where the convert program is located there. Don't forget the trailing "/". If your server is running under Windows, use / and not \ to separate components of the path (eg. use C:/ImageMagick/ and not C:\ImageMagick\). This path must not contain any space so under Windows don't put ImageMagick in the "Program files" directory. ImageMagick will hardly work if PHP on your server is running in SAFE mode and it is a real challenge to get it running under Windows. Consider using GD in these cases and don't waste your time asking for support in the forum. There are too many things that can prevent ImageMagick to work correctly and without a physical access to your server it is hard to guess what is wrong." A few questions if you can help: 1. Do I enter "/usr/local/bin/convert" or "/usr/bin" ....based on above, it seems like I need a trailing "/"? 2. Does TCH run PHP "safe mode"? 3. How does one "run" gallery diagnostics, like you did? Thanks for your help. I appreciate your time. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted October 28, 2003 Posted October 28, 2003 Hi, The diagianostics are as the gallery starts up, it gives a run down of whats installed etc I believe its just user/bin If you get it wrong, when you get to the final bit before you save, all the "wrong" bits will be highlighted in red and you can click back and change them No we are not running in safe mode Jim Quote
Russ Posted October 28, 2003 Author Posted October 28, 2003 When you say, "The diagianostics are as the gallery starts up, it gives a run down of whats installed etc," do you mean when I initially upload the files and run the installation php? Or is there another way to "Start up" the gallery? So far, I have just directed my browser to the page on my site where I have it set up. I just installed it last night, it is the first php thing I have worked with, and am having trouble understanding some of the jargon and procedures. I am sorry to be a pest. Quote
TCH-JimE Posted October 28, 2003 Posted October 28, 2003 Hi, Correct Russ, when you load up gallery onto your website, you have to run the installation file first. It is during this progress that you can look at path names and see what is going on. Please do not think that your a pest. Getting gallery to work is a bit of a hassle even for the most seasoned of us here. If you do have any more questions, please do not hesistate to ask! Jim Quote
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