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Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 18 Jan 2001 18:04:15 GMT
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 05:58:50PM +0000, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
> I've written a perl subroutine (thanks, Paul Hartzog) which finds all the files
> in a directory and returns some HTML code for thumbnails with links to those
> images. Is there a way I can modify this code so it can work with a URL
> instead of a directory? For example, so I can make thumbnail links to all the
> images in my Brickshelf gallery...
no simple way - since the script assumes you have local access to the
directory... and since there is no real way of you knowing what files are
in a directory on the webserver, unless it allows you to list them. the
only thing you can do is write some sort of spider, that will follow all
the links on a page... but that's a different story.
--
Dan Boger / dan@peeron.com / www.peeron.com / ICQ: 1130750
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| (...) If you want to use URLs to retrieve files, there is the Perl module LWP which has a "User Agent" tool. I use it to retrieve a set of web pages each week. With Brickshelf you can't get a plain list of your directory though. But you could make a (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| I've written a perl subroutine (thanks, Paul Hartzog) which finds all the files in a directory and returns some HTML code for thumbnails with links to those images. Is there a way I can modify this code so it can work with a URL instead of a (...) (24 years ago, 18-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.publish.html)
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