On Saturday 09 May 2009 7:43:45 pm Adam Jimerson wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am wanting to put something together where every time the script executes
> it looks into a set directory for photos and then builds a web page with
> those photos, or even a enlargeable thumbnail of the photo, in kind of a
> photo album way. I don't know if something like this can be done in CGI or
> not, and figure I would ask and see what everyone here says before I give
> it a try, if it is possible maybe someone would have any tips or pointers
> that would be helpful.
photo albums are a common CGI application , I think there may be some CPAN
modules all ready written that handle lots of stuff for you.
Writing one from scratch is a good learning experience , You can take a
modular approach or do a monolithic script .
Some stuff you might want to include is a template system like HTML::Template
and Image magick or perl magick image manipulation programs , to do stuff
like resize images making thumbs of full size images.
a lot of code is out on the net , do a search to start out and you will see
the diffrent approaches to this.
A lot depends on your server , and what they will permit . If you have
control then you can do just about anything CGI wise.
good luck
Greg
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