Greg Jetter wrote:
> 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
>
>
It's not CGI per se but it looks promising
http://search.cpan.org/~woody/Apache-Album-0.95/Album.pm
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