Automatically create a web gallery/slideshow from uploaded photos

[kami333]

Is there an easy way to automatically show a gallery or slideshow of uploaded photos? Say I have people ftp it to a certain folder on my webserver, is there a way to create a gallery or slideshow on the fly of all the photos in the folder?

I know I could use something like Coppermine or Gallery and have them upload it that way but any other solutions?

 

[Cheetah8799]

What you are talking about would be very server cpu intensive because it would have to scan every image in the folder and on-the-fly shrink/resize them to fit in the gallery. I suppose it could cache the thumbnails, but the initial job would take a bit, and you would want to be the first person in so that your other users don't see the time it takes. In the end, I think you might as well go with Gallery.

Or you could write your own script for a slideshow in PHP. Just have it scan for the next image file in the directory and attempt to display it every time the user clicks the Next button. Not too tough as long as you aren't trying to resize anything.

 

[DocDoo]

I assume your web server has PHP (with GD or Imagemagick).

Martin's Photo Frame does exactly like you want. Its a plop-n-go PHP script!

(I also noted that his download link is goofed up. If you have trouble finding it, I "may" have it.)

EDIT: Here is the better link: http://photoframe.sourceforge.net/

 

[Modeps]

http://gallery.sourceforge.net

 

[Merlyn3D]

gallery is absolutely awesome

 

[kami333]

I know about Gallery, I use it on my website, along with Coppermine (keep my work and NSFW pics seperate). I'm just looking for a way not to use it, or any other photo gallery software that needs to be manually setup after adding photos. Users can just dump some photos in a specific folder, then go to a page and it gets displayed. The PhotoFrame works pretty well for that, slow with full sized images but acceptable.