Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Scott R. Godin
I've got an idea kicking around in my head .. having a web-directory that can have image files added to it, taken away, or prefaced with "." to have them be ignored temporarily without removing them. initial run of the .cgi indexes the directory into a local database file, and creates thumbn

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Briac Pilpré
Scott R. Godin wrote: > any pointers? I'm happy to toddle off and download and read my face off > -- that's not a problem.. I'd just like to have some indication on which > direction to start walking. :-) Here are some "Pictures Gallery"-type modules that can be found on CPAN: Apache::Album:

RE: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread John Edwards
CTED]] Sent: 16 January 2002 10:24 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Thumbnail images on-the-fly I've got an idea kicking around in my head .. having a web-directory that can have image files added to it, taken away, or prefaced with "." to have them be ignored temp

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-16 Thread Johnathan Kupferer
Your choices are basically GD or Image-Magick I've had good experiences with both. Image::Magick is more full featured but slower so if you're doing anything on the fly you should use GD, but if its just a one pass sort of thing (and I think that is what you're doing) then Image::Magick is be

Re: Thumbnail images on-the-fly

2002-01-18 Thread Scott R. Godin
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott R. Godin) wrote: Many thanks to all of you who responded. :-) One of the things I love the most about these lists -- that one can get so many different perspectives on a problem and solution, because it gives one so much more of an id