The images on the photoindex page are sized 100x100.  They are
miniatures.  To get the full size picture one must first click on the
miniature of the desired photo.  I used Mikov Image Resizer for this...

On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 09:01 +0200, Mariusz Pękala wrote:
> On 2005-06-08 17:14:58 -0500 (Wed, Jun), Michael Sullivan wrote:
> > Each time I offload photos from my camera I create a directory for those
> > photos and name it the date I offloaded them in mmddyy format.  I then
> > create a list of files in that directory (ex, if I offloaded pix today I
> > would have called the directory 060805 and the list list060805.txt.
> > There is also a file called list.txt that contains each of the list
> > filenames on its own line.  My VB program (and now my PHP script) opens
> > list.txt and reads in a list filename and passes it to a subroutine
> > which in turn opens the list filename and formats an HTML page with the
> > 100x100 photos organized into tables by date.  It then returns this page
> > to the web browser requesting it.
> [...]
> > If PHP is a server side scripting language, then why is mozilla
> > requiring so much of my RAM memory and hard drive?  Shouldn't all the
> > work of generating the page be being done on bullet???
> 
> You did not said that you prepare the 'thumbnails' - small versions of
> the images. Thus, if you generate a page that includes 10 000 images (I
> suppose that they are really large images) then the client has to
> download all these images and shrink them for display.
> It will consume a lot of disk space, a lot of memory, a lot of CPU
> cycles, a lot of bandwidth.
> 
> You should create smaller versions of your photos, for example by using
> the 'convert' program from ImageMagick package:
> 
>  mkdir thu; \
>  for x in *.jpg; do \
>    convert "$x" -thumbnail 200x200 -verbose thu/thu_"$x"; \
>  done
> 
> and then, in the generated HTML you should make something like:
> 
> <a href="image.png">
> <img src="thu/thu_image.png" height="200" width="200" alt="image.png" />
> </a>
> 
> HTH.
> 

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