Posted by pennington.chris@gmail.com on 11/15/07 22:29

On Nov 12, 2:52 am, j80k-v...@dea.spamcon.org (Steve) wrote:
> In article <1194640728.807565.27...@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>,
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> pennington.ch...@gmail.com () wrote:
> > *Subject:* Re: Simple image gallery?
> > *From:* "pennington.ch...@gmail.com" <pennington.ch...@gmail.com>
> > *Date:* Fri, 09 Nov 2007 12:38:48 -0800
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> > On Nov 9, 8:33 am, JackM <notr...@earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > > Just wondering... is the ability to add descriptions to the
> > > individual
> > > photos somewhere on the future "to do" list?
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> > It really isn't in my plans to make such an addition. My initial
> > vision for this script was to just grab all of the images out of a
> > directory and display them with thumbnails and use a functional
> > navigation system for multiple pages of pictures. I've been trying
> > to
> > keep it as light weight as possible and I don't really want to
> > include
> > any database work (which would be needed for desciptions and other
> > information for each picture).
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> > If anyone wants to take my code and create a more intuitive image
> > gallery with it, then by all means do so, but I feel that I have
> > created a solution for the initial problem that I had in mind.
>
> > I'm always free to suggestions, and I hope to be creating an actual
> > description page for this project in the near future so that it is
> > easier to understand any changes and to also make requests.
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> JAlbum gets round this by taking text from a .txt file.
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> photo1.jpg displays text from photo1.txt
> photo2.jpg < photo2.txt and so on.
>

That is definitely a decent way of doing that, but the thinking behind
my gallery is that I didn't want the user to really have to do
anything besides uploading the script and the images. To tell the
truth it really wouldn't be that hard to incorporate that sort of idea
into this script.

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> Previous/Next links while the photo is open full screen would be nice too.
> To work through an entire folder when there are lots of photos becomes a
> drag continually returning to the index page.
>


I'm guessing you are talking about the non-javascript version, which I
plan on fixing that in a small update, I just haven't gotten around to
it yet.

This one discussion is the only real place that I have publicly spoken
about the gallery.

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