automate web page creation

[rdo]

Hello,

Is it possible to automate the web page creation somehow? Is there a command line switch to generate web pages or script or something similar.

Here is my problem - I have archive of all my photos taken during several years where every photo session is in a separate directory. Now i have my own webserver, and i want to share the photos with my relatives. What i need initially is to create for every directory with photos the index thumnails page and the corresponding html pages for images. Then in time, when i add new photos i will need to do this again and again for every new directory.
The ideal solution would be to have a bat file and when i start it - to traverse all directories and subdirectories and for every directory to create an index page and the details pages. It will be good if i can tell it it to not overwrite any existing thumnail images and html files, because this will destroy the browser caches.

The traverse of directories from the bat file is not a problem. I see i can also create thumnails with the nconvert, but unfortunately i can't find the command how to start the webpage creator with this directory, give it the output directory and generate all the needed files.


Best regards

[XnTriq]

Have you considered a simple (i.e. non-database) PHP image gallery script?

• bolGallery
• EasyPhpAlbum / EasyPhpAlbum Lite
• MiniGal
• minishowcase
• ThePhig
• picy Gallery
• Single File PHP Gallery

• Nettuts+: How to Dynamically Create Thumbnails
• phpAce: Create thumbnails for all images in a directory
• Der Schattenschreiber: PHP Directory Listing
• David Walsh: Automatically Generate a Photo Gallery from a Directory of Images (Updated)
• WebCheatSheet: How to Create Thumbnail Images using PHP

[rdo]

Hi,

Thanks for your suggestions. I was hoping to avoid using dynamic webpages.
It is strange that i can't find on internet any tool that can generate static web pages in the way i need. XnView looks promising - the functionality is there, but it looks that it can't be controlled from command line.

[XnTriq]

• Fookes Software
  • Easy Thumbnails (User manual)
• commandlinefu.com
  • Quick HTML image gallery from folder contents
  • Quick HTML image gallery
  • Quick HTML image gallery
• Derivatives of Eric Pop's iGal
  • Brice Goglin: llgal
  • Wolfgang Trexler: igal-wt / igal2
• Matthew Mead: HtmlGallery
• Jason Paul: jigl (via c|net Download.com)
• Denis Sureau: Command line image gallery generator (via Softpedia)
• Sergey Antoshin: LeVeL BBS HTML Gallery Maker (via Nonags)

Harishankar Venkataraman: Static image gallery generators (Linux/*nix)