Integrating existing images on website into Gallery Albums

tomsofl · Beginner Joined: Aug 08, 2003 Posts: 5

My client has a Photoshop style gallery on his site, is there a way to use the stuff that's there - the images dir - and let Gallery rebuild its own thumbnails etc?

http://www.plhb.com/gallery/images <- existing images

Do I move this dir into albums?

http://www.plhb.com/albums <- new Gallery albums dir

Please advise
TIA
Tom

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slackbladder · Posted: Sat Aug 09, 2003 8:56 am Post subject:

Best to use the FTP transfer function that appears while uploading:

EXAMPLE:

/path/to/your/oldalbum/

So using gallery admin - add a new album, then use upload, then select ftp upload from the popup.

This only works if the images are on the same server.

tomsofl · Beginner Joined: Aug 08, 2003 Posts: 5

The whole idea was that I didn't want to have to upload a gagillion images thru the Gallery interface thingamjig - since they're already there.

What I need is a way to convert the existing dir into a regulation Gallery album and was hoping that I could just run some *thing* and voila I'd have an instant album.

Is that possible or am I faced with the gajillion-file-upload?

Thanks

dari

i think you're SOL. Gallery stores photo and album info in photo.dat and album.dat (and albumdb.dat) files. these contain info custom to Gallery, and probably not present in other album apps.
if you want, you can zip all the images into a zip file (one zip file per album) and upload them thay way.
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tomsofl · Beginner Joined: Aug 08, 2003 Posts: 5

dari wrote: › i think you're SOL. Gallery stores photo and album info in photo.dat and album.dat (and albumdb.dat) files. these contain info custom to Gallery, and probably not present in other album apps.
if you want, you can zip all the images into a zip file (one zip file per album) and upload them thay way.

Actually not SOL Laughing

.. it's working fine now ... what threw me off was the FTP thing - I didn't realize that some really cool and smart individual was way ahead of me in what I wanted to do - anticpating my need - great programming thank you - and had that dialog for entering a URL for the existing images, plus you guys did a great thing with making it possible to upload a ZIP file - very cool.

Great product and it's working great now on two sites!

-t-

slackbladder

dari wrote: › i think you're SOL.

What does SOL mean? I thought it meant SEX ON LEGS! I guess it means something different here Laughing

Did using the FTP FROM THE UPLOAD POPUP not work? Once all the photos are in one album - it's simply a case of putting the server path in there and submitting (only once), letting GALLERY do it's thing and all the images in that directory will be processed (resize, thumbnail, etc) - job done!

How did you achieve it - I am curious Rolling Eyes

tomsofl · Beginner Joined: Aug 08, 2003 Posts: 5

slackbladder wrote: ›

dari wrote: › i think you're SOL.

What does SOL mean? I thought it meant SEX ON LEGS! I guess it means something different here Laughing

Did using the FTP FROM THE UPLOAD POPUP not work? Once all the photos are in one album - it's simply a case of putting the server path in there and submitting (only once), letting GALLERY do it's thing and all the images in that directory will be processed (resize, thumbnail, etc) - job done!

How did you achieve it - I am curious Rolling Eyes

SOL = SHIT OUT OF LUCK Wink

The real problem was impatience - mine. I'm so used to downloading software for Puke or other things and having to work around, clean up, hack and fix that my expectations were low - I didn't realize the FTP thing was exactly what I needed. So it worked fine - well sort of, I noticed that the popups don't always "kick in" and had to re-load the browser and login a couple of times ... probably something user/pass/session related. But once it started working it worked flawlessly.

-t-