| idea for adding descriptions to gallery images
idea for adding descriptions to gallery images |
drooh
msg:4483859 | 2:20 pm on Aug 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Ok, so I wanted to see if anyone had any ideas on what would be the most simple and effective way to do this.
Right now I have a simple gallery which runs from a php script. The script does not use a mysql database (hence the simple idea). Instead it just looks through a directory and makes categories from the folders and galleries from the images in those folders. As of now I simply use the title of the jpg image to form the caption (a little regex cleanup).
A request to add an additional description has posed an issue. I'm trying to think of a simply way to implement this w/o using a database. So the question is, where do I store the description data? xml? json? txt files?
thanks for your help :)
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swa66
msg:4483929 | 9:05 pm on Aug 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
Having a description, title, size, author, date etc. in a database would make a lot of sense and isn't all that hard to create. What's scaring you away ?
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drooh
msg:4483944 | 10:21 pm on Aug 11, 2012 (gmt 0) |
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just that this is the 1 missing feature of my simple gallery. Looks like mysql may be my best route
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lucy24
msg:4483974 | 12:11 am on Aug 12, 2012 (gmt 0) |
How big is the gallery? You can shovel all kinds of information into javascript-- but only if it's a very very small file, or your users will be twiddling their thumbs for several minutes while the information loads up.
Disclaimer: There's a limit to how many languages I can learn at once, so I'm doing things with js that God never intended js to do. But if it can be done in javascript it can be done in php. The brackets will just be a different shape, and there will be more of them ;)
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