On Saturday 09 May 2009 7:43:45 pm Adam Jimerson wrote: > Hi all, > > I am wanting to put something together where every time the script executes > it looks into a set directory for photos and then builds a web page with > those photos, or even a enlargeable thumbnail of the photo, in kind of a > photo album way. I don't know if something like this can be done in CGI or > not, and figure I would ask and see what everyone here says before I give > it a try, if it is possible maybe someone would have any tips or pointers > that would be helpful.
photo albums are a common CGI application , I think there may be some CPAN modules all ready written that handle lots of stuff for you. Writing one from scratch is a good learning experience , You can take a modular approach or do a monolithic script . Some stuff you might want to include is a template system like HTML::Template and Image magick or perl magick image manipulation programs , to do stuff like resize images making thumbs of full size images. a lot of code is out on the net , do a search to start out and you will see the diffrent approaches to this. A lot depends on your server , and what they will permit . If you have control then you can do just about anything CGI wise. good luck Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
