BigBear Design » web development http://bigbeardesign.net/blog Websites for Small Businesses Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:52:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Installing Movable Type is a Pain In The Ass http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2008/installing-movable-type-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/ http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2008/installing-movable-type-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/#comments Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:52:07 +0000 emil http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/?p=22 Whoever says installing MT is simple and easy deserves a thorough beating. You’ll be doing a few extra steps like uploading to two different locations and chmod a few files. Sure, no biggie. But after following all installation and troubleshooting steps exactly all I got were unhelpful descriptionless error messages!

It turns out that the installation guide conveniently forgot to mention three important steps *grumble grumble*:

  1. create a MySQL database and user
  2. rename mt-config.cgi-original to mt-config.cgi, then fill in the settings
  3. insert $ENV{'MT_HOME'} = '/home/userfolder/public_html/cgi-bin/mt'; in the Bootstrap.pm file

If only Wordpress natively supports multi-site management. Oh well.

]]> http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2008/installing-movable-type-is-a-pain-in-the-ass/feed/ 0 Create A Simple Photo Gallery With 6 Lines of Code http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2006/create-a-simple-photo-gallery-with-6-lines-of-code/ http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2006/create-a-simple-photo-gallery-with-6-lines-of-code/#comments Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:31:12 +0000 emil http://bigbeardesign.net/blog/2006/07/create-a-simple-photo-gallery-with-6-lines-of-code/ A client’s website needed a simple one-page photo gallery with small thumbnails in a few categories, probably Lightbox opening the photo when clicked. While there are more powerful photo gallery apps or scripts already available, they were too large, or are already taking too long to figure out how to use with the site’s design. Thankfully, I stumbled upon a link to a PHP article from DevSource and found out about the glob() function. Here’s a slightly edited version of the article’s example:


<?php
function getphotos($photogroup) {
  $files = glob ("images/thumbnails/$photogroup-{*.jpg,*.JPG}",  GLOB_BRACE);
  if (is_array($files)) {
    foreach ($files as $image_small) {
      $image_large = str_replace("thumbnails/", "", $image_small);
      echo "<a href=\"$image_large\"><img src=\"$image_small\" /></a> \\n";
  }
}
?>

This loads all jpegs in images/thumbnails/ then links to their full-sized counterparts in images/. The files are named with a photogroup- prefix so you can easily load only a particular group of photos. Ex. to load all images beachparty-01.jpg, beachparty-02.jpg, beachparty-03.jpg, etc., use <?php getphotos("beachparty"); ?>.

P.S. Turn off visual rich editor before trying to post code in Wordpress.

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