On Tue, 27 May 2003, Herb Chong wrote: > a print catalog is easier to produce than one searchable on a web site. Thumbs Plus > is adequate for me right now for managing everything i have on my computer when i am > the only one doing the browsing and searching. the problem i have is how to get the > collection of images i want to make available for stock out onto the web such that > someone can search or browse for the image they want. Thumbs Plus can't do it except > on the computer running Thumbs Plus. their web solution requires running Microsoft > IIS as the web server, and that is unacceptable to me. that, plus the product is > still in beta. something that runs on Apache web servers with a combination of Java, > Javascript, CGIs, Perl and MySQL is what i am searching for. > > IMatch that Tom recommends generates a web site that allows someone to browse by > category to find images, but provides no search capability. i need the search > capability. i haven't studied the generated HTML yet, but perhaps i can extensively > edit a template using IMatch to write my own search capabilities. i need to read > what gets generated. > > right now, i assign sheet and frame number for my scanned slides and camera image > number for my digital images in Thumbs Plus. since i haven't shot any assignments > and don't think i will for a long time, i don't need to worry about job numbering. > if i did, i would manage within Thumb Plus for now. > > i have this notion that maybe what i am looking for isn't out there in a way that i > want and i may have to write my own. the problem with that isn't that i don't know > how as much as it will take a bunch of time. i have a start on an application that > will read a Thumbs Plus database and generate a web site of the kind i want that > will run on the kind of web server that i want. Canto Cumulus, from the trial > edition i installed and what i read in the documentation about their Web Publisher > option looks like what i want. combined cost of about $600. maybe, but i can't tell > yet. i would prefer off-the-shelf. if i went with Cumulus or IMatch, i would abandon > Thumbs Plus. trouble is, i really want two different things, a program to manage all > my images, and another one to manage and publish some of my images. the requirements > for each are different. Thumbs Plus seems to fit my needs well enough for managing. > it's the publication part that i'm missing. > > Herb...
Herb - I don't know if it will meet all of your criteria or not, but Gallery http://gallery.sf.net/ might fit the bill, its free too :) it's php based, and it has a search function, weather or not it searches how you want it to I do not know. I use it on my own site, and I installed it for my 4x4 club's website (which now has over 4000+ images in it) and it works great! hth - Chris -- Chris Murray /"\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN http://apeman.org/ X AGAINST HTML MAIL Cell: 604.861.8307 / \/ Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
