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nila:
Well I left it doing it overnight to see what would happen and if it could basically just run till they were all done.
It did 1000 then pooped and said 'server cannot be found'. Unfortunately, it didn't display how long it took to do it.
Resizing them on the fly wouldn't really work too well as it'd mean that the pages would take ages to load as it would have to resize the images to display them.
I'm doing it so that it's an initial setup from which point the pages are able to be browsed.
The 'pages' aren't going to have any fixed number of items - they're just going to show whatever they're called to show - thats why it's done dynamically.
I'm gonna have to think of some work around for making the images - it might take just as long but I need something that can comfortably just take as long as it needs to do all the thumbnails and pics.
nila:
Ah - amendment - It did: 8609 images last night before it pooped!!!
wahey - so basically it did them all. Unfortunately it didn't then display the page which means that my script cant continue gracefully.
I'm not sure how I'm going to get around this, maybe just set it up so if you hit refresh after it poops it knows it just finished doing the images and presents you with the next screen.
Well I now know that it can successfuly process all the images - wahey :)
Resizing the images dynamically is great in terms of it lets each user decide what size they want the thumbnails and main pics but it just doesn't work in terms of functionality - it might do when we have 10Ghz machines but right now it just puts tooo big a strain on the server to dynamically create the thumbnails each time someone wants them at size X.
The only option u have is to create a few different thumbnails at different sizes and let the user chose between these sizes - I personally just usually stick to one thumbnail size.
nila:
Hmm :(
Sorry Sikes - this has taken forever - I've just been working all day recently then doing another job after at night - its keeping me BUSY with little free time to do this.
U been trying anything else meanwhile?
Snarglefarg:
Funny you should ask. I started searching the web for a nice looking, easy to manage photo album. Although I'd love for there to be integration with MC, I know for now my choices are either to wait, or to find something that works now.
My search lead me to "Coppermine" (http://www.chezgreg.net/coppermine) which in my opinion, is the best looking solution out there. It uses a combination of PHP mySQL and GD2. It supports ImageMagick, but I couldn't get that going. Since inspired me to get all of this stuff going (though at the moment under IIS, not Apache) I thought I'd give it a try.
I've got over 1000 pictures being hosted by my home machine at the moment. It's not dymanic as I'd like if integrated with MC but for now it will have to do. Perhaps joining forces with these guys might help? They seem quite active in development and are developing the ability to integrate their photo album with different message boards. Perhaps they just don't know about MC and once they saw it, they'd see value in supporting it the way we want.
I'm in no way trying to undermine the work you've done but having a "real job" kind of interferes with the fun stuff that we all want to do.
You can see the results of my efforts by looking at my photo album:
http://www.flysoup.com/album
The software allows for rating pictures, it counts view, and add comments. Also, you can view a slide show (with a nice fading effect and send individual images as e-cards... it's quite nice. I had to set up my own SMTP server to handle sending email.
I set it up so that you need to be a member before you can see pictures any larger than a thumbnail. Feel free to join so you can take a look. As a registered user, you're even able to create your own album and post your own pictures on my site. I haven't tried that yet but feel free to try it out if you'd like.
RhinoBanga:
Nila,
How are you resizing your images? Maybe I can give you some pointers on how to speed it up??
The reason why I am sticking my oar in here is that I have started to look at creating slideshow cd's/websites for my family and there is nothing out there that really hits the spot (although PhotoShow Deluxe from www.simplestar.com is the best I've found so far).
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