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Re: Thumbnail menu CGI script
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Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:33:12 GMT
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I still have no idea what he is trying to do.  When you
access a brickshelf folder it gives you an html page that contains
links to all of the thumbnail images.  You just have to extract them
from the html.  That would be trivial because the thumbnail images
are linked one per line and the format of those lines is always the same.
You even get the width and height of the thumbnail.

What more do you need?

KL

In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Dan Boger writes:
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 04:37:48AM +0000, Bram Lambrecht wrote:
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, I wrote:
Hmm, seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make a script that lists of all • the
images in a Brickshelf folder if that script was running on the Brickshelf
server...

If you don't have time to / don't want to do this, Kevin, no big deal.  I'll
just host the images myself.

writing a brickshelf specific script should be really easy, if you want it
to generate a listing of a folder - however, I'd ask kevin for permission
before launching such a script - it's considered impolite to run such
scripts without asking first...

:)



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Another way to get the information is to go to ${folder}/thumb where ${folder} is the path to the actual images. In that folder is the actual thumbnail files and a file called .sizecache. .sizecache contains one line for each thumbnail in the (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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(...) writing a brickshelf specific script should be really easy, if you want it to generate a listing of a folder - however, I'd ask kevin for permission before launching such a script - it's considered impolite to run such scripts without asking (...) (24 years ago, 19-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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