This may be an obvious suggestion to many of you, but I thought I'd 
share the image management system I've constructed for my first Radiant 
site.

I used Zenphoto, a PHP image gallery. Zenphoto automatically constructs 
galleries from images dropped in its 'albums' directory. I set up that 
directory as WebDav-enabled, so that my client could copy images 
directly into the images folder. The clever thing about Zenphoto is 
that by changing the image url you can request versions of that image 
at any size. It renders new versions dynamically, cacheing them for 
speed.

I adapted the Textile plugin to make a simple !news/thumb/photo.jpg! 
request into the right Zenphoto url.

The WebDav-enabling didn't work initially, because it was messed up by 
mod_rewrite, so I enabled a different directory on another subdomain, 
and used a cron job to rsync the images into the albums directory. It 
works very well. And as it has turned out, the client doesn't bother 
with the gallery features -- but the commenting and organising could be 
useful for some.

http://www.zenphoto.org/


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Bruno


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