• Registered: 2015-08-04
  • Posts: 2

Topic: Using photos on my server to create galleries

Hi

Just bought Pro. I'd like to use the already populated image folders on my site to create a gallery. The main reason is that I have maybe 2000 images (and growing) which I don't want to store on my local device, so I'm storing everything on the site.

I can't see how I can do this if I'm running Juicebox locally.

Is this possible?

Many thanks

Rob

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

Re: Using photos on my server to create galleries

If you are trying to create a gallery locally with JuiceboxBuilder-Pro, then you will need to have the images on a local drive. JuiceboxBuilder-Pro cannot create a gallery from images on a web server (except when using Flickr as a source of images).

You could, however, create a gallery manually (following the instructions here) and use absolute URLs for the imageURL and thumbURL entries pointing to the images on your server.

If you wanted to create a gallery populated by images in a designated folder on your server, then you could implement the suggestion in this forum post. However, this would work only when the gallery is uploaded to your server. You would not be able to run the gallery locally (from your own computer) as it relies on PHP (a server-side scripting language) to dynamically build the gallery's XML file.

  • Registered: 2015-08-04
  • Posts: 2

Re: Using photos on my server to create galleries

Thanks Steven

I'll just amend the way I store the files on the site as Juicebox seems to allocate the originals to the images folder, which is kinda what I was doing anyway. Just have to download the site images temporarily then delete the local files.

Good looking output by the way and just what I was after!

Kind regards

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

Re: Using photos on my server to create galleries

I'm glad you've found a suitable workflow. Perhaps not ideal but probably the best solution for your problem.

...Juicebox seems to allocate the originals to the images folder ...

Just to confirm, if you deselect the 'Resize Images' checkbox on the 'Images' tab, Juicebox will copy the source images across to the output 'images' folder without any processing/resizing.

Good looking output by the way and just what I was after!

That's great to hear! I'm glad you're getting on well with Juicebox!