#73 Creating a Web-Based Photo Album
CGI shell scripts aren't limited to working with text. A common use of websites is to have a photo album that allows you to upload lots of pictures and that has some sort of software to help organize everything and make it easy to browse. Surprisingly, a basic "proof sheet" of photos in a directory is quite easy to produce as a shell script. Here's one that's only 44 lines.
The Code
#!/bin/sh # album - online photo album script echo "Content-type: text/html" echo "" header="header.html" footer="footer.html" count=0 if [ -f $header ] ; then cat $header else echo "<html><body bgcolor='white' link='#666666' vlink='#999999'><center>" fi echo "<h3>Contents of $(dirname $SCRIPT_NAME)</h3>" echo "<table cellpadding='3' ...
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