Greg Jetter wrote: > 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 > >
It's not CGI per se but it looks promising http://search.cpan.org/~woody/Apache-Album-0.95/Album.pm -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-cgi-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-cgi-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
