Posted by Baron Samedi on 11/27/07 09:06

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...

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