I’m getting a little lost in all the technologies available. I would like to have the actual buttons for the multi-gallery version of Josh’s gallery (it’s in his original post, about half way though) to be populated by my db, for the ‘entire site’ version of a photographer’s homesite I am building, to be available for all when it’s done (i.e., it will be entirely open source and free). I have a LOT to learn. For now, I have a db, and also within the original post, someone wrote a php script to generate the xml from a db, using PHP, which I was lucky that someone converted to ColdFusion for me. And it led me to think…is there anyway the actual gallery buttons cal be populated on the fly based on my db such that anytime the page is loaded, it reads the db and loads the proper buttons? I guess a similar approach would work…put the gallery names and id’s into a db, have a script to convert the galleries into an exl file (i.e., where it currently is an ‘album’ node in the multi-gallery version, and read that and populate the gallery appropriately. Read the albums available from the script, and populate the buttons accordingly, is what I’m trying to say. I can show you an example of where I’m going with Josh’s gallery, which has been a god-send for me (I owe this man BIG TIME) but it’s, as usual, a work in progress: http://shawngibson.com/faceitphoto.ca/marketa/ii/index2.html The buttons (under portfolio)…the main page is blank cuz I’ve no idea what she would want as an intro)…are hard-coded to the xml (you manually add them as per the original, not changed anything yet, and only thefirst 2 are coded I think), but I’d like them to be based on a db because that php script seems to offer me the chance to load the galleries themselves dynamically. It will be HOPEFULLY based on ColdFusion, but right now I can do either CF or PHP, because I can pay someone to do the conversion if necessary. I loathe PHP because I can’t for the life of me make sense of it, CF is much easier to try and understand. Are any of you inclined to help with this? I am lost with the whole remoting thing. It will be an open-source project for all to have, with all proper credits when it’s done. Currently, I’m using my best friend as my testing bed - it’s her gallery I’m trying to build. If this is clear as mud, please let me know. Shawn
