Hi, I'm writing a webpage as a learning exercise. My first objective is to allow myself to upload files to directories in /images/, and have cgi scripts automatically generate the pages that will allow users to navigate through the images.
I have a very basic prototype that does what I want, at least for a website served by Apache on my laptop (not web-accessible). Any comments or feedback on the sanity of this approach, or ways to improve it generally would be appreciated! I understand what I've done, but I have no idea what other approaches there might be. I'd like to avoid a complicated CMS at this point, as I want to learn about the basics of serving up webpages. Three files follow. First, the html index page, followed by the gallery picker, followed by the thumbnail displayer. Thanks! Tyler index: <html> <head> <title>My home page</title> </head> <body> <h1>Home</h1> <p>Only one thing to do - visit the <a href="http://localhost/tycgi-bin/gallery.py";>galleries</a>. </body> </html> gallery picker: #! /usr/bin/python import cgitb; cgitb.enable() import cgi, os print """Content-type: text/html <HTML><HEAD> <TITLE>Galleries</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY> <H1>Select a gallery:</H1> <form action="./thumbs.py" method="post"> <select name=gallery> """ for gal in os.listdir("../images/"): print '<option>%s' % gal print """<p><input type=submit value="Go"> </form> </BODY></HTML>""" thumbviewer: #! /usr/bin/python import cgitb; cgitb.enable() import cgi, os form = cgi.FieldStorage() gal = form["gallery"].value print """Content-type: text/html <HTML><HEAD>""" print '<TITLE>%s</TITLE>' % gal print"""</HEAD> <BODY> <H1>%s gallery:</H1>""" % gal for file in os.listdir("".join(("../images/", gal))): print '<p><img src="http://localhost/~tyler/images/%s/%s";>' % (gal, file) print """</BODY></HTML>""" _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
