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From:Bruce Ferrell Date:Sun May 10 23:25:49 2009
Subject:Re: Web photo album, is this possible in CGI

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
Navigate in group perl.beginners.cgi at sever nntp.perl.org
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