photos and upload and web...

[Neo-Geo]

What is the best way to create an online photo album?
I want it to be as simple as it can with just this features
- thumbnails
- others can upload their own photos using web browser

and without using PHP script..

I've searched programs to make an online photo album, but anyone who wish to upload their photos must have that particular programs and FTP for uploading.

:cowboy:

[abzoid]

Both parts of what you want to do can't be done without some form of server side scripting, be it PHP, ASP, Perl, etc. to interface with the file system on the web server.

You need a server side script to handle the uploads, and you also need a script to read the file index of designated gallery folder then process and display the thumbnails. Neither HTML nor Javascript have this ability since they are both client side applications.

[Neo-Geo]

ASP and Perl are fine with me. How can I create one?

[SeiferTim]

Step 1: Learn About ASP - Get a book, or visit any of the
number of informative websites.
Step 2: Obtain a server space that include ASP - check around,
usually you pay a monthly fee, about $10
Step 3: Build Site - Dreamweaver would make this easy
Step 4: Code ASP - this is the tricky part, you'd basically have to
write most of the code from scratch, and set up logins and accounts, and permissions, and
uploading script... It would probably work a little bit like those
On-line hosting systems, that let you upload files via HTML...
have fun with this step...
Step 5: Upload Site - simple enough
Step 6: Use
that's what you need to do essentially.

[abzoid]

SeiferTim gives good advice, but step 4 isn't as difficult as he makes it sound. Most ASP hosts will have a COM component available named ASPupload that makes the upload function pretty simple. If not, there's an add-on server behavior for Dreamweaver that does uploads using the standard Windows CDOnts functions.

Another COM object, by the same folks that do ASPupload, is called ASPjpeg. It allows you to make thumbnail images either during the upload process to be saved as a file, or dynamically to send to the browser.

Take a look at the demo on this site that I did a year or so ago. www.PixClix.com. While the files aren't displayed as a gallery in this instance, they easily could be and I have for other projects. I'd show you those, but they're behind password protected areas.

[Neo-Geo]

that sound like a nightmare for me. I'm really really new to this server side script. I've found few scripts to upload files via web browser on the internet. (www.hotscripts.com) But, I don't even understand their explanation to modify it. I don't think I can write the code from scratch

I'll give a try to follow SeiferTim's advice.