• Registered: 2013-12-25
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Large photo site

I have a website that I put together for the unit that I served with in Vietnam in 1965-1966. It has over 8000 photos as well as several hours of video, documents and writeups from some of the guys about events. The URL is http://11thrru.org

Currently the photo part is in a ZenPhoto php/MySQL application. It works well, however it has been hacked several times by idiots who think that they will find credit card info or some such. There is none to find.

I want to move from php/MySQL to HTML5 to eliminate the problems. I have already done that with the rest of the site and it is straight html/css. Jucebox looks like just what I am looking for.

My main question is about structure: there are photos from 68 people so far with from 1 to several hundred photos in each directory and some directories have up to 6 subdirectories with photos from different operations etc. What would be the best direction to take to replicate this with Juicebox?

  • Registered: 2012-04-24
  • Posts: 5,924

Re: Large photo site

With Juicebox, you could create many individual galleries (each with as many images as you like) but you would need to link them all together manually (possibly by following the Multiple Galleries instructions and examples here).

An alternative solution might be to use another one of our products: Showkase.
Showkase is a PHP web application (although it does not require or use a database) which allows you to create multiple galleries online in a browser interface and automatically have them listed and linked together on gallery index pages.
Demo sites can be found here and a sample gallery index page can be found here.

If you do not want to use PHP on your site at all, then Showkase would not be a suitable solution and you would need to assemble your site (incorporating multiple Juicebox galleries) manually on your computer and then upload it to your web server via FTP.

Another possible solution would be to use the Juicebox skin for jAlbum.
You would be able to drag and drop a complete folder structure into jAlbum's main window. A Juicebox gallery would be created for each folder/subfolder in your input structure and all the galleries will be linked together by a JavaScript navigation tree. A sample gallery with two folders can be found here.
The complete album would be created on your computer and you would then upload the files to your web server. (There is no PHP or database involved in this process.)

  • Registered: 2013-12-25
  • Posts: 2

Re: Large photo site

Thanks for the info. I have been experimenting with Juicebox and jAlbum all day and, while I can put together an album, there are too many items on the existing ZenPhoto album that do not render in Juicebox. Stuff like Adobe .pdf files, Microsoft PowerPoint presentations, slide shows, etc. I think that I will stick with ZenPhoto for this site at least for now. There are several smaller sites that I manage that have only .jpg media and I will look at Juicebox for them.

Thanks