Hello
I have never used Coppermine Gallery before and I wanted to ask you if it can cope with my specific setup... I see it has many, many features and I wouldn't want invest too much time into researching it all if in the end it turned out that it can't do what I need... I'm sure everyone who ever looked for a perfect piece of software for themselves will understand that...
Here's my situation:
I have two machines in my LAN:
1. a Windows XP one, on which I hold all my photos on in one folder and a e.g. '21-02-2009' date subfolders that actually hold all the images...
2. a local Linux server that runs the webserver
Now, what I would want to be able to do is to "submit" that main folder with my photos to Coppermine and for it to be able to automatically make albums/galleries based on the 'date' subfolders with thumbnails and the whole sha-bang...
Here's a couple of restrictions:
1. the thumbnails should be kept on the server; no files should be saved inside the folders with the images
2. it should automatically acknowledge when I add a new 'date' subfolder with set of photos, e.g. from today and update the gallery (can be with a cronjob or something)
So basically I need a system that'll allow me to show my new sets to my colleagues and so I can easily access it when I'm not at my computer...
I have already mounted the main photo folder on my server machine so accessing it is not a problem... The question is can Coppermine do the rest...?
BTW, I'm a PHP programmer so if there's something that needs to be altered/plugin written/etc, I'm up for it...