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Photo Albums
Snarglefarg:
Hmm... I could be mistaken. It was a while since that project and it appears that we used forms to make queries to FileMaker but that the results from the queries were placed on the page via tags but rather they were created by the FileMaker server itself.
Sorry, continue on as you were.
nila:
Unfortunately I haven't been able to do anything on this the last two days.
I've been getting to work at 8.30am and leaving at 11pm.
I've been trying to get some of my debt cleared so working my ass off (freshly graduated student here = flat broke).
The point it's at right now is that it can parse the XML, set up the MC tables (I still need to modify it to make the image tables relational so we can have multiple 'people' etc per image.
It can then create all the thumbnails and main pictures.
Now I just need to get it to create the html (pretty easy).
I'm also going to re-work how it does the whole thing above so that after you enter the db details the first time you use it, it'll then have them permenantly and be able to use them when controlling the photo album.
Maybe I should make an 'admin' side to the photo album like bulletin boards have.
Me and you seem to be the only ones interested in this so if you want to give mine a shot and help me develop it by feedback and comments, you'll need a few basic things - I can help you set them up with any questions u might have.
You'll need these:
Web server (recommend apache) - www.apache.org
mySQL db - www.mysql.com
php - www.php.net
imagemagick - ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries/ImageMagick-5.5.7-Q16-windows-static.exe
Install apache and mySQL, then php after - I can help u set them up :)
It's gonna take quite a bit to get this going I know, thats why I'd like to build a plugin so that it could build the site and the rest could then just be done on a remote server but the plugin can wait for now.
Snarglefarg:
Well, the good news is that I've installed and configured all of the programs you listed. (Thanks for the URL's!) And most importantly, they all seem to work!
PHP was a little tough to get going (I ended up installing 5.0 beta) but I managed.
The bad news is that I don't have much spare time, but I'll do what I can to help out.
nila:
ooh, wouldn't recommend v5 - it's VERY beta and I've heard a lot of problems with it.
Sorry you needed so many programs - if I can work out how to talk to MC like Glissando does then it wouldn't be necessary for apache as MC already has the webserver and it wouldn't be necessary for mySQL as MC would be the database.
That'd only leave ImageMagick which, if MC would do the resizing wouldn't be necessary either :)
Snarglefarg:
That's what I figured. Since MC already has all of this functionality, these additional programs didn't seem necessary.
It seemed like functionality the authors of MC could build in realitively easily. They've got the all the pieces already, just a matter of putting them together in the right way.
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