picViewer 1.0 Released

Posted By : todd sharp Posted At : August 3, 2006 7:08 AM Posted In: Flash Forms, ColdFusion

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picViewer is a simple application built for - you guessed it - viewing pictures! It is built using Coldfusion Flash Forms with a simple cfc to do a bit of the dirty work. Nothing fancy, but a really easy way to get a private, password protected photo sharing application up and running in literally minutes.

Setup is dead easy. Download the zip, extract to your webroot, update the ini file with a few settings and you're done.

Once you've set up picViewer on your server, all you have to do is FTP new picture folders to the pic directory to get your latest photos online.

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Demo Password = user.

If you really like picViewer, you can visit my wishlist.

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Michael White's Gravatar I like your flash solution but I'm still looking for a flex solution to display all of my photos on my site... currently I use fusion gallery to generate an xml file of a directory of photos, then use the flex sample application to display them using that xml file but I have to create the xml file separately for each gallery and I haven't figured out how to make the flex demo use more than one gallery at a time so I have a duplicate of the flex application for each gallery... this is a pain. Something that would simply read a directory and display the photos with some kind of transition would be nice or other way to automate the process would save my butt.

Posted by: Michael White on: 8/3/06 2:42 PM

todd's Gravatar Michael:

I don't see why Flex couldn't do exactly what i'm doing here. On load I read the top level pic directory and return a query of the directories below that to populate the select. Then on change of the select I read the contents of the given directory and populate a hidden grid with the pics in that directory. The navigation is just a fancy way of adding one (or subtracting) to the selectedIndex of the grid which is bound to a cfformitem type=html for the pic. If I can find any time soon, I'll try to whip one up in Flex - that is if my 30 day trial hasn't expired :(

Posted by: todd on: 8/3/06 5:50 PM

Steve Walker's Gravatar Todd,

Nice job. You do some pretty amazing things with Flash forms.

Michael,

I have taken SlideShowPro (www.slideshowpro.net) and added it to a VERY basic Flex app (www.sphereproject.net). There is a CF Management utility by Ryan Guill (http://www.ryanguill.com/cfssp/) or you can buy SSP Director (AJAX/PHP/MySQL solution). I tried the CF solution but it didn't write to a database so I switched to the PHP variant.

I agree with Todd that this should be very easy to do in Flex, but I needed the gallery quickly for a different project and the swf loader in Flex saves tons of time. My long-term goal is to take SSP Director and build a Flex version, but it is project 157 on my list.

Posted by: Steve Walker on: 8/4/06 5:22 AM
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