Hello all,
I am trying to create a couple of things but am having some problems. Hopefully someone here can point me in the right direction. I have a couple sites I am working on that use variations of XML-based Flash galleries. I am trying to create a client-tool (CMS) to allow uploads of images and editing of the XML file that runs the gallery. I have gone through various tutorials but it isn’t quite coming together. So if anyone has some pointers to good tutorials or files I can dissect for this I’d appreciate it.
I am a complete PHP newbie so am flying blind. I do have it installed and running locally on OS X for testing.
I’ve figured out the displaying of XML files and uploading of images files, but can’t figure out how to combine the display of the XML data and allow the user to edit and re-export that info. The type of info is what you’d expect:
Image Name
JPEG Location
JPEG Thumb Location
Category (ideally a pull-down)
Image Description
Here are some other things I’d like for the tool to do. Load and resize the JPEG’s. I found a nice PHP cript for this, but it is dependant on cjpeg and a few other free Unix utilities. The problem with that is that I don’t have control over the hosting service of various clients and while most of them are running PHP, I can’t install any other apps. So I’m not sure if it’s possible to do this without these, or if it’s possible to do this pointing to a location of the apps on a different server. While I’d love it if I could get it to do this, the main concern right now is getting the XML file editing working.
Thanks!
