Php automated Gallery?

[liamloveslearning]

Hey everyone, a friend has a website he needs an automated gallery building where he can login and simply upload his own photos and they update his media page, however he doest have mysql installed, is there anyway to do this?

Thanks

[F1Fan]

I would suggest a combination of the PHP scandir() function to find all the files in a folder, and phpThumb (http://phpthumb.sourceforge.net/) to automatically generate thumbnails.

[liamloveslearning]

thanks for the reply, is their a way to do it without a database then? he just needs php supported?

[F1Fan]

Yes, scandir() just lists all the files in a given directory on the server, and you can use regular PHP to go through the files and list them. phpThumb will generate thumbnails and watermarks. Neither requires any database.

[liamloveslearning]

ahh thanks, sorry still dont understand php all that well, ill have a look at some tuts now, thanks 

[F1Fan]

php.net is a great resource. Also, w3schools.com has great tutorials. Here's the scandir() function on php.net:

http://us3.php.net/manual/en/function.scandir.php

[liamloveslearning]

thanks a lot F1fan, i appreciate it

[liamloveslearning]

ive tried googling it but everything seems so complex for such a simple thing,

does anybody know a simple code snippet to upload images to a directory on a webhost?

 

 

[F1Fan]

Do you want a web page that allows the picture to be uploaded? If that's the case, that will open up all sorts of security issues, and without a DB, it will be a challenge (to say the least).