This 'N That

If anyone was wondering why I didn’t update the photo albums in a long time, its because I’m in process of making an application for building these albums automatically, better then the current one used to make the albums, so now I’m gonna go on a bit about this, if it bores you, just skip it.
So, There’s three ways to create & manage online photo albums:
1. Make them manually – thats good if you only have very few photos, and lots of time.
2. Use a dynamic PHP/MySQL script to manage them – to much off a mess for my needs right now.
3. Use an App on my computer to generate the HTML pages and the thumbnail images
The last option sounded like the best one to me, so i started looking for an app, I was going to use WebAlbum, i liked the fact it was written 100% in AppleScript (not that that makes it any better, I’m just an AS scripter myself) but it wasn’t customizable enough. so after checking a bunch of apps i settled on Image Rodeo, but it wasn’t good for my needs. I use the PHP include function to dynamically include the header and footer into every page in this site, now the PHP tags broke the parsing of the template file, so i couldn’t use them, another problem was that the files were saved as HTML files and the links inside linked to HTML files, so what i ended up having to do is to a find & replace in all the generated files and change the header to the PHP include, and every time it linked to a file change the extension from HTML to PHP, and then manually change all the files extensions from HTML to PHP. Not Easy… there had to be an easier way, and there was…
I wrote an app myself.
It uses plain text headers and footers that don’t get parsed, so they let you to put anything in them without braking. there’s a setting so that you can change the generated files’ extension to whatever you want, and the generated content is controlled by adding CSS classes to them, which you can control from you style sheet. I finished version 0.8 about a week ago, now i just need to pack it with some default templates and documentation, finish the website, and it’s ready to go! I will make it available for download at http://www.MacGeniusWare.com/ if you want to see the site now, you can AIM me, and I’ll give you the UN/password (nothing secret there, just don’t want people getting there somehow without realizing the site isn’t finished yet, and try downloading it.)
More Photo albums are coming to the photo page soon, generated by WebPhoto!