Using Gallery to Build a photo CD

I am doing a little personal project: building a CD of images as a birthday gift. Basically, I'll use gallery on my local apache to get it right, then use wget to make a static copy.

Hopefully there won't be too many changes - but I have already got a slideshow of every image in the gallery, and I will be adding music. And of course, removing any links that rely on interaction with PHP - like login.

Has anyone else done this? Any hints that you can share?

Would people like to see reports of my changes, so they can do this themselves?

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Thanks for the help. I think I've got it!

I have my images in HTML, but it isn't nearly as flash as gallery, nor as good looking. What I wanted was something so I could configure the look, feel and layout in gallery, and then use wget or similar to make a static copy.

But wget is no good, as it doesn't understand javascript, so the slide show doesn't work. And the XML produced something a little less flashy and good looking than I had.

Back to the drawing board. Or at least sourceforge/freshmeat, where I found this miracle, <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/httrack/" TARGET="_blank">httrack</A><!-- BBCode End -->. I've had to tweak the gallery source a little, but I can create a nearly fully featured dump of a gallery, that doesn't require PHP.

If you want to see a demo my work in progress visit <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.joanhenge.plus.com/gallery_cd" TARGET="_blank">http://www.joanhenge.plus.com/gallery_cd</A><!-- BBCode End -->. Be warned, that's a cd demo, with (a rather daggy) animated gif and music. If you have a slow connection or a low tolerance of pain, go straight to <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.joanhenge.plus.com/gallery_cd/albums.html" TARGET="_blank">http://www.joanhenge.plus.com/gallery_cd/albums.html</A><!-- BBCode End -->. Note this site doesn't even have php!

PS do you like my slideshow-of-entire-gallery?

Thanks Warren.

Sorry to frighten you. :smile: That delete option is to help users voting for the best 3 images in an album. They can go through the slideshow multiple times, eliminating pictures each time until they have narrowed it down to three.

Extra patch required to give correct URLs on albums where "fit_to_window" is "yes." I've updated the version on my site, and sourceforge, but if you've already installed it, you'll need to apply this patch.
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>
*** ../../gallery/view_photo.php Sun Mar 23 12:03:25 2003
--- ./view_photo.php Sun Mar 23 12:07:09 2003
***************
*** 271,280 ****
img.width = imageWidth;
} else {
if (changed) {
! document.write('<a href="<?php echo makeAlbumUrl($gallery->session->albumName, $id, array("full" => 1))?>">');
}
! document.write('<img name=photo src="<?php echo $photoURL?>" border=0 width=' +
! imageWidth + ' height=' + imageHeight + '>');
if (changed) {
document.write('</a>');
}
--- 271,282 ----
img.width = imageWidth;
} else {
if (changed) {
! document.write('<a href="'+ document.getElementById("page_url").href+ '">');
}
! src= document.getElementById("photo_url").href;
! document.write('<img name=photo src="'+src +
! '" border=0 + width=' + imageWidth +
! ' height=' + imageHeight + '>');
if (changed) {
document.write('</a>');
}
***************
*** 319,324 ****
--- 321,330 ----
<?php

if (!$gallery->album->isMovie($id)) {
+ print "<a id="photo_url" href="$photoURL" ></a>
";
+ print '<a id="page_url" href="'.
+ makeAlbumUrl($gallery->session->albumName, $id,
+ array("full" => 1)).'"></a>'."
";
if ($gallery->user->canWriteToAlbum($gallery->album)) {
$adminCommands .= popup_link("[resize photo]",
"resize_photo.php?index=$index");

</TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

It's still there: so you should talk to your ISP about their DNS or proxy server.

Anyway, the best place to find copies of web pages is google. Paste the URL, hit return, and then click on the cache link provided. Viz:
<!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:b2OiEwcGpRgC:nwalsh.com/hacks/gallery/+&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8" TARGET="_blank">http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:b2OiEwcGpRgC:nwalsh.com/hacks/gallery/+&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8</A><!-- BBCode End -->
and
<!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:EE-KFy1mPlAC:nwalsh.com/hacks/gallery/gallery2xml+&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8" TARGET="_blank">http://216.239.39.100/search?q=cache:EE-KFy1mPlAC:nwalsh.com/hacks/gallery/gallery2xml+&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8</A><!-- BBCode End -->

You should be able to do the rest.

I've read through much of the discussion about creating a static version of a Gallery for burning to a CD rom. However, I'm not sure that things have progressed or settled enough to let a newbie like me make this happen without serious grief.

Has there been more progress to this end? I'd love to be able to specify a particular album and have that made static for burning to a CD while keeping the same look and feel as my online galleries.

One complication: I have made some dandy modifications to the Gallery code to allow it to interact with a MySQL database. I realize that this interaction cannot take place from a CD on a standalone PC, but would the same tool that makes the Gallery static also be capable of parsing the database responses and making those static?

This is a really, really important feature for me as I'm hosting wedding galleries and I want part of my hosting offer to be a CD of their site as we take the gallery offline after 6 months (traffic for a specialty event like that dries up quick after the event itself.)

If anyone else has had some success with a tool to do this that won't require 6 weeks of intense studying and a kernel rebuild, I'd be very grateful to hear your stories

Thanks!