Suggestion... Photo gallery server

[Scrubby]

mcdougc,

I really do appreciate your efforts on the community's behalf in general and mine in particular! *Many thanks.

[mcdougc]

No problem, I want to get this re-installed anyway.

It's a lot nicer to browse your photo collection through a web broswer than a network share.

Zenphoto looked better but was a nightmare to install.* Gallery was fairly easy.

[divreg]

I experimented with minigal-nano today (demo here). *It is purely written in php and javascript (with some css). *It is very lightweight and fast.

Here is what I did to get it working. *

1. Install the gd library:

yum install php-gd

2. *Change directories and grab the minigal code:

cd /var/www/html/

wget http://www.minigal.dk/tl_files.....00.3.5.zip

*EDIT: *Looks like the forum software breaks if I try to put the link in bash syntax because it is so long. *The work around is to right click the link, copy link address, and type wget and paste the link into your command line, sorry about that.

3. Unzip it

unzip*MiniGal Nano 200.3.5.zip

4. *I renamed it so it was easier to point vortexbox to in the web browser

mv*MiniGal Nano 200.3.5 minigal

5. *Erase the *extra files created

rm -f MiniGal Nano 200.3.5.zip

rm -f __MACOSX

6. *Make a symbolic link to you pictures files:

ln -s /storage/pictures /var/www/html/minigal/photos

7. *Go to http:///minigal in your webbrowser and click on the thumbnail for picture and you can navigate your photos quickly!

Post note. *I haven't seen thumbnails actually work yet; it looks like it may be a bug in the script createthumb.php. *

I like this because it's very non invasive. *If you want to make a link in the VB-GUI, do the procedure mentioned at the end of this wiki.

[divreg]

Update: *rebooting vortexbox seems to have allowed the images to thumbnail! *If you don't want to reboot, try:*

/etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart

Also, I am going to see if I can rebuild this UI to make it more*
appealing for vortexbox.

Have fun!

[Scrubby]

Heya DivReg,

Just a quick note to thank you for your efforts on the MiniGal script. *It was super easy to install and works - but for the thumbnails - a treat! *I will give our VBA the atomic elbow tonight when I get home from work and see if it improves the thumbnail situation. * I did have a look at that createthumb.php and nothing jumped out at me - there did appear to be some garbage characters in a comment field but that shouldn't do anything one way or the other.

Thanks, regardless, again!

Scrubby

[divreg]

Thanks Scrubby. *Glad this works for you too. *To get the thumbnails, have you tried the restart of apache as per above? *

Right now I am working on integrating the API with vortexbox smarty, so that all the normal icons are displayed on the side. *I'll update this report with a ge.tt of the specific changes I made, either with a patch file or in a tarball of the whole thing when I am finished.

Also, if there is another solution to photo viewing, I'd be glad to experiment with it.

I can't really put my finger on what I would rather see:*Let VortexBox handle the pictures, or to modify subsonic to include picture integration. *It seems that subsonic would be more appropriate, since that is the means we already view videos and listen to music in our web browsers--pictures are just an added bonus the folks on the subsonic forums have been slowly pursuing. *

In either case, a solution for photo viewing in the web browser makes my VortexBox complete. **

[Scrubby]

Hey divreg,

I can confirm that a system reboot does in fact yield the thumbnails correctly - they take a minute to load but it beats the pants off of the broken links! *Thanks for the suggestion. *

With regards to subsonic - I gave Sindre, the author, a donation and so have the internet access set up. *My family and I use it all the time to get back to our music when on the road or on vacation. *We love it. *The way I see it all I have to do now is figure out a way of exposing the minigal script to the subsonic internet address and I could get all the grandma's and grandpa's looking at all the pictures of their much adored granddaughter - the goal all along. *Hopefully I can sort that out.

Again, many thanks,

Scrubby