I'm working on part II of a two-part series on using gimp and PHP to create an online gallery for LinuxFormat. The first part was writing a script that could be run on a directory full of images to generate thumbnails in both grayscale (actually, 24-bit destarutated) and color. That one was delivered last month.

This month I'm delivering the second part. I just completed the code and tested it at home. Works very cool. PHP is really pretty easy to get your hands around, most especially if you have Perl experience (though Perl handles regex in much more terse syntax).

This series, like most of my articles, evolved from my own needs. My personal web site is really outdated (its gotta be at least 6 years old) and needs a face lift. The first part to get that lift will be my GIMP galleries. The scripts I generated for this article will be the basis of that facelift. And now I'm ready to start the operation – but on the staging server first. If all goes well I should have these online within a week or two, probably after I finish writing the article.

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This is essentially done now – it only took a day of mucking around with it. It still needs a splash page (when no directory has yet been selected), a page logo (Galleries or similar), and it should display the linked, larger image in a page that looks similar to the contact sheet page. Once all that is done I'll need to link to the gallery.php page from the other pages instead of the old gimp.html page.

All of this is doable in a day. I may have this up by end of the day tomorrow.

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It's done. Only took a day and a half, and it's not online yet because I want to clean up the navigation on my personal site before pushing the new gallery pages to the production server. But the galleries are done. Very cool.

Now to finish the article….