I HAVE ISSUES
So I basically have to redo a website with over 500 megs of photos.
The guy who took care of it before, did it all with ACDSee, so it was all hardlinked and had jenky code...
but it worked
I took over, and I had a plan of using PHP to set up a photo database. No go, the host they went with runs PHP with "safe mode on" which means I can't use any of the kick assed photo gallery PHP packages out there. I even had a geeky friend of mine compile all of the PHP into CGI scripts so the gallery program could make the calls it needed too. I mean, the PHP idea was going to be great. I could just upload a .zip file and make uploading and making html pages like 687654x easier. No go - the CGI would not work on our server.
This has left me dead in the water - I've looked at other gallery packages, and the only one that kinda worked was this really crappy one called Coppermine which used this funky plugin to display the image.
I wanted to know, if any of you great web developers had any idea how I could make this website work better? Besides all the CSS stuff.
I basically have to redo this whole website, and I've spent my whole spring break figuring out that I can't salvage anything but the photos.
I just want some dreamweaver template, or something, some program - because as I see it, this website is not going to be dynamic the way I need it to be since PHP is run in safe mode.
Do any of you know any work-arounds?
It's page that hosts thousands of photos taken at faires.
Any advice?
The guy who took care of it before, did it all with ACDSee, so it was all hardlinked and had jenky code...
but it worked
I took over, and I had a plan of using PHP to set up a photo database. No go, the host they went with runs PHP with "safe mode on" which means I can't use any of the kick assed photo gallery PHP packages out there. I even had a geeky friend of mine compile all of the PHP into CGI scripts so the gallery program could make the calls it needed too. I mean, the PHP idea was going to be great. I could just upload a .zip file and make uploading and making html pages like 687654x easier. No go - the CGI would not work on our server.
This has left me dead in the water - I've looked at other gallery packages, and the only one that kinda worked was this really crappy one called Coppermine which used this funky plugin to display the image.
I wanted to know, if any of you great web developers had any idea how I could make this website work better? Besides all the CSS stuff.
I basically have to redo this whole website, and I've spent my whole spring break figuring out that I can't salvage anything but the photos.
I just want some dreamweaver template, or something, some program - because as I see it, this website is not going to be dynamic the way I need it to be since PHP is run in safe mode.
Do any of you know any work-arounds?
It's page that hosts thousands of photos taken at faires.
Any advice?
