Is there not a solution that already exists that allows me to recursively search my directories on my server and then use that directory structure as album links for a gallery view? After having searched the directories it should then treat each of those directories as an album and contain the various tools that you expect when viewing photos (resize, crop, rotate, etc). This also needs to auto-resize photos for the thumbnail view, and be web two point oh-ish...something along the lines of jquery lightbox. Exif data might be nice, but is certainly not a deal breaker. It should probably cache that crawl of the directory and maybe through a cron job it can recrawl every so often. I would also like authorized users to be able to upload as well. But uploading the files through the gallery should NOT be required a lá Gallery3. (Rather annoying as I have a structure and lots of files already uploaded on my server.) And I would like to be able to just dump new folders on the server after a day of shooting and have to do nothing but run a cron job and then hand out the URL for interested parties to look at. Tall order?
Maybe...but that is what I do...
