Basic thumbnail gallery view

[chorlton2080]

Hi all

Does anyone have a very quick implementation of a jpg gallery web page for all images within a given directory?

I'm guessing that a periodic cron job to run a Python script (using PIL perhaps) to create the thumbnails may work, but I've no idea on the next steps in getting the resultant batch to display on a Web page: the quantity and file references would clearly be variable. The full size jpg would also need to be displayed on selection.

Any ideas?

[DougieLawson]

Warning, ugly PHP code alert!

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<?php function iterateDirectory($i)
    {
        echo '<ul>';
        foreach ($i as $path) {
            if ($path->isDir())
            {
                iterateDirectory($path);
            }
            else
            {
                if (strpos($path, '.jpg')) {
                  $output = array();
                  $chunks = explode('/', $path);
                  foreach ($chunks as $i => $chunk) {
                        array_push($output, $chunk);
                  }
                  echo '<li><img src=..'.join("/",$output).'></li>';
                }
            }
        }
        echo '</ul>';
    }
    # beware the hard coded directory name.
    $dir = '/var/www/httpi/pics';
    $iterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(new RecursiveDirectoryIterator($dir));

    iterateDirectory($iterator);
    ?>

You'll need to do something special to build the thumbnails, that ugly PHP program generates HTML wrapped round the full size images.

The basic principle is find the filename wrap <LI>... </LI> and <IMG SRC=....> tags round it.