Need Help on My website with downloadable files

[FrankWerner]

Another option,

this one supports selectable images, which the vistor can select and download as a zip file.
http://linpha.sourceforge.net/
It has an integrated file manager with which you can simply drag and drop your local pictures to the server, and there are different themes for it so you can change the view of it to your liking.

As its open source, its free but the site is a little bit clutterd and you can't see what it all can do at once so I copied the feature list from sourceforge from the documentation site for you to view. Your webguy should be very able to install and configure it.

Easy HTML based installation (even the DB is created for you)
Automatic creation of thumbnails (even for most videos)
Supported file types (images): jpg, gif, png, tiff (even more with ImageMagick (http://www.imagemagick.org/)
All image preview sizes adjustable due admin page
Supported file types (videos): avi, mpg, mp4 (play videos within your browser (quicktime plugin))

Add users and groups
Set permission of albums (by groups)

Styles (css)

Album comments, Image comments, Description, Categories

Slideshow (fullscreen!)
View panorama images in 360° view with java applet (ptviewer)
View EXIF data of images (even if PHP misses native EXIF support)
Virtual "new images" folder which contains all new added images

Print images (2/4/8/16 images per page, index print)
Mail images to users
Download images as zip/tar/gz/bzip archive

Rotate images

Satistics page
Most viewed images
Most downloaded images
Latest comments

Extended search capabilities: Boolean search, search for keywords (description, filename, comments, exif data)
Search only in specified albums
Search only for specified categories (boolean)
Search only between specified EXIF date (from-> to)

Translated in over 15 languages: Autodetection of language due browser setting

Integrated filemanager (modified version of FSGuide http://fsguide.sourceforge.net)

Image cache
Guestbook
Mailing list
Benchmark
Watermark
DB management (backups)
Facetmap (coming soon)
And much more...

[john_Beardsworth]

Guy

You said up front that you wanted to just upload a whole folder of images and have the client logon before accessing them. Let me throw a very low tech option at you and see how it works.

Your site uses php and so I'd guess it's on a Unix based server. So why don't you simply forget about generating any web pages, upload the folder of images and protect it with a file called ".htaccess"? This is a simple text file with the user names allowed to access the folder. Elsewhere on your site is a file usually called ".htpasswd" contained the encrypted passwords. Then each client would logon to their folder and grab the files they want.

How does that sound? Thee's a little more to it, but not much - it is a really easy and very secure.

John

PS BTW do check out your site on a big screen - the images on the right are a long long way from the stuff on the left

[Guy_Mancuso]

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PS BTW do check out your site on a big screen - the images on the right are a long long way from the stuff on the left

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i told my web designer the same thing but of course he said what about if someone is running a much lower resolution monitor . I said who cares, the folks that hire me are on big monitors. LOL I actually do need to do a redisgn , maybe get rid of the flash stuff , little outdated these days



Actually clients can go in and see folders now . I wanted to give them thumbnails because they always don't need the whole motherload at once. Maybe just 10 to 20 or whatever

[SteveEllis]

You might check out this one..... web page

[SimonPaul]

Guy,

About protected access. Some hosting packages like www.ipowerweb.com have an easy way to protect some folders. Just need to create a folder such as "clients" log on to their website and you just have set a username and password for that particular folder. I do it it all the time and it takes one minute.

About downloadable thuinbnails: what about PS web Galleries. If the 800 pixels limit for most templates is too small. There is the option to click on "no resize" or similar, and the client will be to drag and drop in a flash.

Sorryt there is a cat on my keyboard and make the typing tedious. S.

Mark Tucker posted on this a while back. It was in 2004, but, I'm unable to find the posting. He uses a capability where clients can log onto his Web site, select images using a 'light box' capability,' and possibly do other things, such as download.

Best regards,

Bill

http://www.imagefolio.com/

Yes, I bought it, and I endured the pain of setting it up. I would not recommend this to anyone that's not an extreme masochist though. They must show me their whip, chain, and leather outfit before I gave them the OK. Terrible documentation, poor support, and no web-based interface; you must go under the hood and alter the code, to get it customized for you.

I still use it on rare occasions, but at some point, I realized I needed A Life more than I needed to try to use this on a regular basis.

There is certainly a need for this type of application though. A user-friendly version. I guess these guys mean well, but it is not ready for Prime Time.

"Warning! Danger Ahead, Will Robinson...".