folderblog
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folderblog is a simple PHP script to create a gallery from a folder of pictures, complete the ability to post comments. It can be a starting point for a server interface for our Creative Spelling project, where our lab crew can post transcriptions online.
It works reasonably well out of the box — exactly what you expected for a 20k script. I added password protection right away. It does NOT have a database backend, which may be an advantage. Instead, it reads the list of pictures, and saves comments to file x.jpg to x.txt, which, again, may not be a bad thing.
For it to work, though, we need the ability to:
- display a midsized view of the sample for transcription, and to zoom in when needed. see http://folderblog.org/folderblog/wiki/index.php/Max%20Image%20Size%20Hack/
- read date and other info from the picts (there should be readily available scripts somewhere). see http://us3.php.net/exif
- simplify the "category" function, so that we can organize pictures (see tags)
- assign tags to pictures. Tags may include: age, id, type of work, special spelling patterns, etc.
- filter/sort by tags: right now it displays all picture thumbnails. Now necessary for what we do. Instead, we need a list of files to filter. This looked promising, except fotobuzz is nowhere to find now.
- keep track of which files have been coded and which have not
- keep all versions of transcripts — with old versions with hidden in the text file (with code) or named as x.1.txt or somethign alike.
Possible changes:
- Pool all transcript into a single text (XML?) file, rather than a thousand individual txt
- Pool all caption files into a single text (XML?) file; possibily automatically by reading the camera info.
- Autoscan folder structure to generate categories
- implement fotonote and save transcripts to the pictures themselves