We have a client that uses a Flash component called Zoomify [1] to display hi-res images on their website. This has become cumbersome because they now have almost 700 of these things running on the site (which we are still developing).
One concern is that when we open this up to the public these things are going to bring the server down -- some of them are as large as 20MB. I already see a slow response time during testing. I haven't run any scripts, I can see how slowly the tiles render. Right now, the client uploads the Zip file with the images and configuration file to the server and then we use PHP Zip extension to open and unpack the file. Ultimately, I'd love to be able to offload these things to a third-party, like we are doing with the videos (YouTube, Vimeo) and then just put the embed code into our database. The problem is that these Zoomify files run off an XML configuration file and I haven't been able to find anything that would support the structure. Perhaps I am not searching on the right terminology though. Does anyone have any suggestions? [1] http://www.zoomify.com/ -- Randal Rust R.Squared Communications www.r2communications.com www.facebook.com/r2communications 614-370-0036 _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation
