[Wolves] Bletchley Park Photos

[Ron Wellsted]

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Re-LoaD wrote:
> Ron Wellsted wrote:
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>> As yet unsorted
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>> IPv6: http://wellsted.dns6.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=46465
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>> or on plain old IPv4:
>> http://wellsted.dyndns.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=46465
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>> - --
>> Ron Wellsted
>> ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
>> N 52.567623, W 2.136111 Linux Counter No. 202120
>> Ekiga: 645022
> 
> Thanks Ron a great day had by all,
> 	quick question;
> can Gallery2 support a import from an existing local directory structure 
> keeping the structure as the gallery names with sub galleries ? i.e..
> 
> 2008
> -2008-01-01
> -2008-01-04
> -
> -
> - etc....
> 2009
> -2009-01-01
> -2009-01-23
> -2009-03-09
> 
> I have all my photos going back to 1999 arranged that way on the file 
> system with a php front end that reads the files and directories from 
> the file system, resizes on the fly to thumbnails with in web pages that 
> match the file system directory structure.
> This was ok and worked nice and fast until I got a better camera and the 
> picture file sizes went up to 10Mb per pic... I was about to write a 
> MySQL back end to store 640x480 and thumbnail versions of the photos 
> with the location on the disk for full size view..... But is there any 
> point "Re-LoaD"ing the wheel ....
> 
> Comments welcome...
> 
> Cheers
> Re-LoaD

Yes, if the photos are already on the web server (or accessible via NFS)
and have at least 0444 (and 0555) ont directories) it will even use
symlinks to access the originals to prevent duplicating them. It will
then only create the thumbnails/smaller images.

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Ron Wellsted
ron at wellsted.org.uk http://www.wellsted.org.uk
N 52.567623, W 2.136111 Linux Counter No. 202120
Ekiga: 645022
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