Creating an Image Gallery - conclusion

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we should now have a fully functional image gallery. just keep the three files together, and edit the configuration file to point towards your image folder. there are a couple things we should note here. this project assumes that all images belong to a particular category, so having images in the same directory that contains sub-directories may not have the desired result. in my testing it just ignored the images and displayed the sub-categories. as long as we keep our gallery properly organized, updating should take no longer than uploading an image to the server =D

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in imgsrc.php, you can take advantage of imagejpeg's 2nd arguement and have it automaticaly make copies of thumbnails for you to the directory of your choice, then check to see if the thumbnail already exists and use the readfile() function to output it if it does. you could even go further as to overwrite old existing thumbnails with news ones if the sizes specified within the configuration file change (for portability). you would have to modify how images.php calls and handles images to make this work, but the pay off would be less stress on your PHP server, as it currently has to re-draw the thumbnails with every request.

if you plan on writing a control panel interface to this script in order to upload/delete via the web, i would recommend using the existing scheme rather than rewriting code. for example, if an admin is logged in, just modify the code to display a delete check box next to each category and image, along with upload/create fields within each category. right now, empty directories are not hyperlinked, but they should be linked for an admin so that they can get into it to make changes.about the author

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