I'm clearly looking for something for nothing but I'll still ask.

 

I've got a decent lightweight PHP gallery script that I use which I think was made by Ian Gunn on here. I've been using it for years and modified it a number of times to suit whatever purpose.

 

I've managed to modify it in the past so the gallery would appear to be on one website but the photos would be stored elsewhere.

 

I'm trying to do the same now but with Dropbox being the storage space for the photos since I have plenty of space on there. Unsurprisingly this doesn't work because it won't let you run PHP scripts.

 

Are there any free cloud services that do support PHP and provide a consistent link like Dropbox does? (ie...http://dl.dropbox.com/u/usernumber/folder/photos/gallery1/photo1.JPG)

Well I've just grabbed 1.5GB of free webspace from 000webhosting.com

 

Might do the job for the time being.

Is it possible to do a PHP Include with arguments?

Because this doesn't work....

<?php include "photo.php?gallery=gallery1"?>

I guess I don't want to include the PHP file just the output. Hmm.

Maybe investigate fread and fopen functions?

I think you can load a file over HTTP with PHP...

I may just abandon this idea since I think it is overkill and the thumbnail generation isn't that nice.

 

I think I'll make my own thumbs and have the list of photos in a text file or database and just read from either of those.

Well if you need them stored, use a text file, but can't you just get them from a directory listing?

I could do that. The sorting will already be done by filename anyway I guess.

 

Multiple galleries in separate folders.

 

Though that way I might still have to use empty files as placeholders since the actual images will be stored on Dropbox or another server. I might just stick to the text file because if I have it reading a directory it will just be using those filenames and pointing to an image elsewhere with the same filename.

https://www.dropbox.com/developers/reference/api
or
https://github.com/BenTheDesigner/Dropbox

I'll look into those.

 

I have now sorted the problem with a text file but a better solution would be nice.

The latter is just a PHP wrapper around the former, though it wasn't clear if it implements all the functionality yet, and doing REST with PHP probably isn't hard and might even be a useful skill to have, so I probably wouldn't bother with the wrapper version.

Why does this output the HTML over three lines? Or maybe it's not splitting it at all?

echo '<a href="'.$drop.$data.'" class="fancybox"><img src="'.$drop.$data.'" width="190px" /></a>';

I want this....

<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo1.JPG" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo1.JPG" width="190px" /></a>
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo2.JPG" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo2.JPG" width="190px" /></a>
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo3.JPG" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo3.JPG" width="190px" /></a>
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo4.JPG" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo4.JPG" width="190px" /></a>
<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo5.JPG" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo5.JPG" width="190px" /></a>

But get this....

<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo1.JPG
" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo1.JPG
" width="190px" /></a><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo2.JPG
" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo2.JPG
" width="190px" /></a><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo3.JPG
" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo3.JPG
" width="190px" /></a><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo4.JPG
" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo4.JPG
" width="190px" /></a><a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo5.JPG" class="fancybox"><img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/photo5.JPG" width="190px" /></a>

There's a stray linebreak on the end of each URL, so probably a stupid carriage return (\r), and thus I'd guess you're only splitting on newline (\n).

 

Either include an optional CR in your split (i.e. \r?\n if it's a regex), or better still set your text file (and any editors you have) to only use single-character newlines, so it doesn't even become an issue.

I'm about to leave work

Here's the full code if it is of interest

<?php
$dropb = 'http://dl.dropbox.com/u/blah/';
$user_file = @fopen("gallery1.txt", "r");
if ($user_file)
{
	while (!feof($user_file)) 
	{
    	$lines[] = fgets($user_file, 4096);
	}
   	fclose($user_file);
   	foreach($lines as $line => $data)
   	{
   	   	echo '<a href="'. $dropb .''. $data .'" class="fancybox"><img src="'. $dropb .''. $data .'" width="190px" /></a>';
   	}
}
?>

I'll look into fixing it when I get home.

I thought you were making a dropbox like deal using PHP. I was going to tell you how much I look up to you and how you've always been my favorite. But since you're not doing that I can't say those things to you!

Ha. That's still on Peter's to do list.

Hmmm, I'm guessing fgets includes the newline with the string, in which case you can either change that single line to this:

$lines[] = trim(fgets($user_file, 4096);)

Or replace the whole while loop with this:

$lines = preg_split( '\r?\n' , trim(fread($user_file , filesize($user_file))) );

Dan Herman already did that about ten years about. :P

Show me!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/vault/