Massive photo system?

whitsonracing

whitsonracing

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Ok I am thinking of coding together a gallery system for my friends site. I have been reading up on a few things lately. Not much, I am almost done with this dreamweaver bible. Now I was wondering what I should read so I have the knowledge to create a gallery that would hold hundreds of photos. Kind of like the way motorsport has their gallery of pictures. I just need a relatively quick way of uploading pictures to a easy to access gallery. And I am thinking I can create him an action in photoshop in which he can water mark and resize his pics. Or is there a faster way to do that to hundreds of photos.

I think he is using HTML actually with little or no other code. Thanks guys
 
whitsonracing
Do you suppose this was made in the way you suggested at this site http://laracers.com/showsatworder.asp?event=Ford+Focus+Midgets+Main+Event&date=10/8/2005
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Yes, the server side code is ASP (you can tell from the URL). No way to tell what the database is, but I am 99.9% sure there is one (probably MySQL, just because of it's popularity).

I've written a similar application in ASP.NET/C# (actually, it was a e-store, but it handled photo galleries for the products as well) and using Microsoft SQL server. That would probably be overkill for what you want, though.

The easiest way to do this would be using PHP/MySQL, IMO. It would all depend on what you have available wherever this site will be hosted, though.

Did you consider customizing a open-source project that does what you want? There are a lot of them, like this one: http://spgm.sourceforge.net/?lg=us&id=main

Downloading the code and looking it over with a good reference book might be a good place to start in coming to grips with this project.
 
The best way would be to get a web application of some sort working, but for a quick gallery with batch resizing and automatic code generation, open Photoshop, go to File -> Automate -> Web Photo Gallery.
 
If you decide to go for the web application approach, I find nothing beats Menalto's Gallery 2. Just give it an MYSQL database and you'll be going in minutes. There's also some nice themes around if you decide to be creative with it's looks and don't want to be bothered with designing anything.

Some prefer coppermine, but I really think this does the job better for photos atleast. That's the only problem - aside from live images like webcams, it can't handle video or audio - animated GIFs is about as far as you'll get. Having said that, there are much better ways to upload your pictures. There's a java drag and drop system built into the page, there's a program for XP you can download, and there's even a registry patch for XP that lets you upload them via the "publish to web" option in explorer. I've used all 3 and they're excellent.

One thing that's important to you, you can also add watermarks to the pictures in any shape or form and resize them to whatever size you want; all in one go or seperately.
 

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