Seeking thumbnail gallery generator

When I had static HTML pages, I used the Egg gallery generator -
http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/egg/ it was perfect for me, but is not so
useful now that my site is PHP based.

Here is what I am looking for - I just thought that I would ask if
anyone knows a program which does this, before I code one myself.

The main thing is that it scans a source directory for images,
generates an index of thumbnails and corresponding pages to view each
image - and that it will let me add text comments.

- I don't want to use MySql.
- Egg actually generates the web pages offline. This isn't a
requirement of mine, but more a function of the most important
requirement ...
- I want to be able to add comments to the thumbnails, and have these
stored somewhere (Egg uses a .INI file). Then if I want to add new
images, the directory gets rescanned and these comments are still
associated with the old images, but I can add comments for new images.
Also, I can, of course, edit comments, or delete them (or delete
images from the source directory and rescan it.
- Egg let's me specify some HTML to be added at the page header or
footer. I'd like to do the same for PHP, or use a template.
- Egg lets me drag the images around, so that the thumbnails appear in
the order that I want them to appear in.

Thanks in advance for information on any program that can do this...

Re: Seeking thumbnail gallery generator

On Nov 27, 9:06 am, Baron Samedi wrote:
> When I had static HTML pages, I used the Egg gallery generator -http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/egg/it was perfect for me, but is not so
> useful now that my site is PHP based.
>
> Here is what I am looking for - I just thought that I would ask if
> anyone knows a program which does this, before I code one myself.
>
> The main thing is that it scans a source directory for images,
> generates an index of thumbnails and corresponding pages to view each
> image - and that it will let me add text comments.
>
> - I don't want to use MySql.
> - Egg actually generates the web pages offline. This isn't a
> requirement of mine, but more a function of the most important
> requirement ...
> - I want to be able to add comments to the thumbnails, and have these
> stored somewhere (Egg uses a .INI file). Then if I want to add new
> images, the directory gets rescanned and these comments are still
> associated with the old images, but I can add comments for new images.
> Also, I can, of course, edit comments, or delete them (or delete
> images from the source directory and rescan it.
> - Egg let's me specify some HTML to be added at the page header or
> footer. I'd like to do the same for PHP, or use a template.
> - Egg lets me drag the images around, so that the thumbnails appear in
> the order that I want them to appear in.
>
> Thanks in advance for information on any program that can do this...

http://www.planetluc.com/en/scripts_mygallery.php
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ifoto/

Kailash Nadh | http://kailashnadh.name

Re: Seeking thumbnail gallery generator

Baron Samedi wrote:

> When I had static HTML pages, I used the Egg gallery generator -
> http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/egg/ it was perfect for me, but is not so
> useful now that my site is PHP based.

What *exactly* is wrong with continuing to use your original gallery
software?

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[Geek of HTML/SQL/Perl/PHP/Python/Apache/Linux]
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Re: Seeking thumbnail gallery generator

On Nov 27, 6:38 pm, Toby A Inkster
wrote:
> Baron Samedi wrote:
> > When I had static HTML pages, I used the Egg gallery generator -
> >http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/egg/it was perfect for me, but is not so
> > useful now that my site is PHP based.
>
> What *exactly* is wrong with continuing to use your original gallery
> software?
>

Well, the rest of the site is PHP, and has some standard includes for
menu, CSS, header & footer. The current s/w allows me to define some
HTMl to be put into the generated pages, but only in one of header,
body or footer.

Re: Seeking thumbnail gallery generator

On Nov 27, 5:50 pm, Kailash Nadh wrote:
> On Nov 27, 9:06 am, Baron Samedi wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > When I had static HTML pages, I used the Egg gallery generator -http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/egg/itwas perfect for me, but is not so
> > useful now that my site is PHP based.
>
> > Here is what I am looking for - I just thought that I would ask if
> > anyone knows a program which does this, before I code one myself.
>
> > The main thing is that it scans a source directory for images,
> > generates an index of thumbnails and corresponding pages to view each
> > image - and that it will let me add text comments.
>
> > - I don't want to use MySql.
> > - Egg actually generates the web pages offline. This isn't a
> > requirement of mine, but more a function of the most important
> > requirement ...
> > - I want to be able to add comments to the thumbnails, and have these
> > stored somewhere (Egg uses a .INI file). Then if I want to add new
> > images, the directory gets rescanned and these comments are still
> > associated with the old images, but I can add comments for new images.
> > Also, I can, of course, edit comments, or delete them (or delete
> > images from the source directory and rescan it.
> > - Egg let's me specify some HTML to be added at the page header or
> > footer. I'd like to do the same for PHP, or use a template.
> > - Egg lets me drag the images around, so that the thumbnails appear in
> > the order that I want them to appear in.
>
> > Thanks in advance for information on any program that can do this...
>
> http://www.planetluc.com/en/scripts_mygallery.php

Looks good, but I need to check two things: 1) can I choose the order
of display of the thumbnails, 2) can I defien a descriptive text for
each thumbnail?

> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ifoto/
This looks very good, since it clear states that you can purt
descriptive text. Also it uses lightbox, which I like (even though I
don't normally "approve" of JS (let's hope taht it degrades
gracefully).

Thanks for the help!!


>
> Kailash Nadh |http://kailashnadh.name- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Re: Seeking thumbnail gallery generator

Why do you want to use MySQL? If it is not a must, Gallery is a great
solution. You just need to create a MySQL database and the
installation is very simple.

You can check, it is in Spanish, but with graphics step by step, the
installation of Gallery:

http://sistemasoperativos.wordpress.com/2007/05/17/instalaci on-de-gallery-221-paso-a-paso/

(you can use a online translator)

Good luck

Luisa - http://www.vrlist.info

On Nov 27, 10:06 am, Baron Samedi wrote:
> When I had static HTML pages, I used the Egg gallery generator -http://www.tirain.co.uk/ian/egg/it was perfect for me, but is not so
> useful now that my site is PHP based.
>
> Here is what I am looking for - I just thought that I would ask if
> anyone knows a program which does this, before I code one myself.
>
> The main thing is that it scans a source directory for images,
> generates an index of thumbnails and corresponding pages to view each
> image - and that it will let me add text comments.
>
> - I don't want to use MySql.
> - Egg actually generates the web pages offline. This isn't a
> requirement of mine, but more a function of the most important
> requirement ...
> - I want to be able to add comments to the thumbnails, and have these
> stored somewhere (Egg uses a .INI file). Then if I want to add new
> images, the directory gets rescanned and these comments are still
> associated with the old images, but I can add comments for new images.
> Also, I can, of course, edit comments, or delete them (or delete
> images from the source directory and rescan it.
> - Egg let's me specify some HTML to be added at the page header or
> footer. I'd like to do the same for PHP, or use a template.
> - Egg lets me drag the images around, so that the thumbnails appear in
> the order that I want them to appear in.
>
> Thanks in advance for information on any program that can do this...