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Revision of iPhoto and Gallery integration from August 28, 2003 - 3:53am
As I've said elsewhere, Gallery is still the best web-based photo gallery app.
Now I'd like to shortcut my two-step process of using iPhoto plus Gallery Remote (make sure you add the beta stuff if you want everything working nicely).
Ideally, the LazyWeb will conjure up someone who knows the inner workings of iPhoto and can make a plug-in that adds a "Gallery" tab to the Export function. Select photos, choose whether to resize locally, connect to your Gallery and select/create an album, press export -- voila!
The new(est) versions of Gallery allow for WinXP users to install a DLL/registry hack that adds their Gallery as an option for the "publish to web" button that appears in folders filled with images, so I know it's doable. The Missing Sync even adds an Export tab to get iPhoto pics into my Sony Clie!
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I've written a plugin for iPhoto which export to Gallery. It just reached a useable state. Email me at gallery (at) zwily.com if you're interested in trying it out before I finish it for release.
There's now a web page for iPhotoToGallery:
http://zwily.com/iphoto/
Check it out if you're interested.
Myself and a few others are now using this plug-in -- it works great! Email Zach at the address listed above, and he'll send you the plug-in. Tell 'em Boris sent you...
I've been running this plugin for over 4 months now in conjunction with posting to my gallery http://www.shao.org/gallery (it's actually the only way I've ever populated my gallery) with generally good results, aside from the occaisional crash when some network burp takes out the plugin. Only thing I would be careful about is corrupting your iPhoto library - crashes seem to dramatically increase the possibility of something happening.
I'm willing to provide what little time I can to help out. I'm just getting started learning Objective C/Cocoa, and this would be a great project to cut my teeth on. E-mail me at scott -AT- smerpology -DOT- org.
I'm guessing the item at the following URL will be of some help...
http://www.droolingcat.com/software/betterhtmlexport/
This specifically exports iPhoto images as plain HTML. Gallery is a PHP-based app that supports direct uploading of pics, and it handles creating thumbnails, etc. on the server.
See Andrew Stone's page on iPhoto Plugins.
There are a couple other ways to get at your iPhoto data if you are running iPhoto2. You can read the file Pictures/iPhoto Library/AlbumData.xml or use the scripting interface. See Apple's AppleScript page for more information on the scripting interface.