Photo Album Online

[kram 2.0]

Hey,

Does anyone have any good recommendations on what is a good photo album creator/program for going online? What I'm asking is ones that would ask for JPEG pictures and it would take several of them and make several pages of HTML, PHP, (whatever the extension may be) files. It would be nice if I wcould utilize like a comment section, where I would type in comments and they would be included when the picture is clicked, as well as the enlarged version of the picture. I'm working with 93 pictures on my digital camera which I want online. Any suggestions are appreciated .

Thanks,
kram

[mairving]

The two best are:
Coppermine
Gallery

Both are free and offer some pretty impressive features.

[kram 2.0]

Yep - looked at the two recommendations that you gave me, mairving. But I noticed one thing that's keeping me from getting Gallery or Coppermine - they both use PHP. My server doesn't support PHP (which is truly unfortunate). Yes, I've programmed using PHP before but it was with a more forgiving server. I also looked around and found a few servers that gave PHP servers to me for free - unfortuitously, my pictures amount to about 122 MB - a little over the limit of many I saw. Anyone, any suggestions as to what I should do?

EDIT: I should mention that my web server without PHP offers unlimited storage space.

Thanks,
kram

[mairving]

Unlimited storage space without PHP is like a car that comes with free gas but doesn't have an engine.

Does it come with any kind of scripting, perl (CGI), ASP, etc?

[kram 2.0]

I might just be able to write the whole thing in HTML - though I will probably write a Java program or a JavaScript so I don't have to rewrite the same thing over and over again - how nice are "for" loops .

My server is provided by school so hence the lack of PHP on there though I thought it woulda been on there. No CGI scripting either - the only server side provided is Microsoft's ASP which I'm not too familiar with.


Thanks,
kram

[mairving]

Do you have access the Adobe Photoshop? If so, you can run the Photo Gallery wizard File/Automate/Web Photo Gallery. Which will take pictures out of a directory, make thumbnails and create the html for you. Then you can upload them to your server.

[kram 2.0]

Originally posted by mairving Do you have access the Adobe Photoshop? If so, you can run the Photo Gallery wizard File/Automate/Web Photo Gallery. Which will take pictures out of a directory, make thumbnails and create the html for you. Then you can upload them to your server.

Yes, I have Adobe Photoshop 7 unfortunately still in a box and not installed. I also have Adobe Photoshop Elements 2 installed - would that do? I'll check it out later.

Thanks,
kram

[Spartan]

Why not just go for a free web page at Geocities or Angelfire and make a simple page to post them all using whatever you want?

-SPartan

[kram 2.0]

Originally posted by Spartan Why not just go for a free web page at Geocities or Angelfire and make a simple page to post them all using whatever you want? -SPartan

Tried that - 120 MB was a beyond their limit. Thanks for the suggestion, thoguh.

Thanks,
krma

[Metaphorically]

If you want to make a plain html page of thumbnails linked to your pics, here's an easy way to do it. First, get ImageMagick (this is my favourite program lately). Then, make a script or batch file to make the page for you. There's an example of a batch file I just wrote for Windows 2000 attached (it's called txt, rename it to bat).

Every line that starts with "rem" is there to explain the next couple lines. No warantees expressed or immplied, yada yada yada. I've used batch files like this one to scale down my 3 meg pictures to a more manageable 1024x768, while keeping the originals safe somewhere and marked read-only.

With the thumbnails and html file already done, you can upload to a server that has no server side scripting. Of course, without server side scripting, I don't know any way to allow users to add comments.

My advice is to try out this batch file, or better yet, rewrite it in jscript, then start learning asp. It can't hurt to know an extra scripting language.

[Metaphorically]

Oh, and here's the batc file.

[glc]

Irfanview has a thumbnail creator which can convert to HTML - then all you have to do is edit the page the way you want and upload the whole mess.