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Writing Your Own Image Gallery Application with the UNIX Shell

Issue 159

From Issue #159
July 2007

Jul 01, 2007  By Girish Venkatachalam
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You don't need a fancy photo management application to create a Web-based image gallery.
Conclusion

To create an image gallery application, you need to obtain the thumbnails, border style of images, audio file for the background music and the text for annotating each image. You also can give the user the opportunity to specify a particular annotation style.

Once you have these inputs, you can use the command-line ImageMagick tools to create a gallery and use a simple shell script to link them all together with HTML and produce a Web page.

Resources

ImageMagick: www.imagemagick.org/Usage

Netpbm: netpbm.sourceforge.net

tgif: bourbon.usc.edu/tgif

gallery2: gallery.sourceforge.net

Girish Venkatachalam is a cryptographer with nearly a decade of experience working on various modern UNIX systems. He has developed IPSec from scratch on the Nucleus OS for a router and worked with the guts of Apache, OpenSSL and SSH. He can be reached at girish1729@gmail.com.

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