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Seeking options for managing upload of collated files

Asked by picoallen in PHP Scripting Language, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML (DHTML)

Tags: php, javascript, Firefox, IE 6, IE 7, http://www.speakingoftheotways.net

I am an environmental activist, and am creating a website that can be used (among other things) to publish the findings of environmental assessments.

At the page http://www.speakingoftheotways.net/issues/phytophthora_yaugher_map_b3.php you will see a map image depicting an area of woodland that is being carved up by bike riders. I'm photographing the damage, and outbreaks of a plant disease being spread by the riders.  (I'm not picking on kids here; we're talking about 50km of tracks through an ecological wonderland, constructed with backhoes.)

My challenge right now it that in a single day of survey work, I collect hundreds of photographs. I categorise these into a nested folder hierarchy on my PC that has folders for  'site', 'track' &  'date'. I'll also have a database that records this information, plus the map names, plus the file names.

What I need is a system that allows me to automatically reconcile the contents of the images folder on my web server with the contents of the image folders on my PC. (I also intend to have it create several different resized versions of the images as it goes, but I've seen code that should not be too hard to adapt.) I will then get php to automatically generate thumbnail lists of the images, which when clicked open a zoomed image to reveal the evil ways of those dastardly mountain-bikers. (In future of course this will be applied far and wide to the practices of environmental vandals.)

That way, I can come back from the field. Dump my photos to my PC. Put them in the appropriate folder. Go through them and adjust exposure etc of each. And hey presto! update the website.

Any thought on the best approach to this will be most welcome. The possums,  bandicoots and wallabys  will count you in their prayers I'm sure.

(By the way; the maps are not a true GIS maps. I create then in Adobe Illustrator for now. True GIS will be wonderful when I find the time to get my head around it some time in the far distant future. I manually create hyperlinked image maps on the map-photos that open the photo pages.)

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