Creating a photo/video upload interface for client

[tina3]

I'm an experienced HTML/JavaScript designer and I've been creating basic functional and pretty sites for about 10 years now. But I have a challenge and I am not quite sure how to approach it! A client of mine would like to have a page on their website listing horses for sale at their farm. They want to have a login tool so they can upload photos, descriptions, and videos of the horses, edit and delete them without going through me. I said "sure" thinking I can use an existing photo gallery free script or something.

My concept for the page is to use the same layout template as the rest of the site, and have a main list showing a thumbnail and description of each horse. if the user clicks the horse they come to a "details" page which displays additional photos and info and sometimes video links.

So here is where I get confused and afraid :( My hosting service comes with a suite of scripts including things like Coppermine and Gallery photo galleries, and a lot of content management scripts and wiki stuff. (I can provide a detailed list if anyone thinks they can help me chosoe one). I have never used any of these tools before and figured I would start with the photo gallery scripts since they are meant for the purpose. But I am having a heck of a time making the gallery look like and behave the way I want. It sort of works, but it would be a nightmare to explain to the client how to upload their pics, and it still does not look the way I want. It is starting to seem like more work than writing my own! I have visited the help forums of both gallery programs and I can't find what I need there.

So, does anyone have some suggestions as to where to start, what type of tool to use - or can I write this myself by learning a bit more DHTML?

Thanks in advance!

[Jack O'Connell]

Hi Tina:

You would be best served with a "classified ads" script written in PHP and interfaced with a mysql database. If your host dosen't suport these, there are alsp cgi script.

Jack

[tina3]

Thanks, Jack

What type of PHP do you recommend? I am not a PHP programmer although I have played around with ecisting scripts. Here is a list of the ones offered by my hostings service:

Blogs:
b2evolution
Nucleus
pMachine Free
WordPress

Content Management:
Drupal
Geeklog
Joomla
Mambo Open Source
PHP-Nuke
phpWCMS
phpWebSite
Post-Nuke
Siteframe
TYPO3
Xoops

Customer Relationship:
Crafty Syntax Live Help
Help Center Live
osTicket
PerlDesk
PHP Support Tickets
Support Logic Helpdesk
Support Services Manager

Discussion Boards:
phpBB2
SMF

E-Commerce:
CubeCart
OS Commerce
Zen Cart

F.A.Q.:
FAQMasterFlex

Guestbooks:
ViPER Guestbook

Hosting Billing:
phpCOIN

Image Galleries:
4Images Gallery
Coppermine Photo Gallery
Gallery

Mailing Lists:
PHPlist

Polls and Surveys:
Advanced Poll
phpESP
PHPSurveyor

Project Management:
dotProject
PHProjekt

Site Builders:
Templates Express

Wiki:
TikiWiki
PhpWiki

Other Scripts:
Dew-NewPHPLinks
Moodle
Noahs Classifieds
Open-Realty
phpAdsNew
PHPauction
phpFormGenerator
WebCalendar

[Jack O'Connell]

Hi Tina:

Take a look at the features in Noahs Classifieds.

Seems like that may be what you want.

http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/

Jack

[candelbc]

I think the underlying recommendation would be that you'll need to start looking at a Server-Side language such as PHP or ASP. It would appear from your server that PHP is recommended.

-Brad

[tina3]

Mnn, I had not thought of trying that one, but it makes sense. I'll go play around with it and see how much I can do - thanks for the tip!

[tina3]

Hi Tina:

Take a look at the features in Noahs Classifieds.

Seems like that may be what you want.

http://classifieds.phpoutsourcing.com/

Jack
Hi Jack,

I've installed Noah's and have configured it in every way perfectly for what i want... EXCEPT that I can only allow the user to upload one photo per ad. I need to allow them several photos and possibly a video clip.

I posted on the PHP forum for help with this, if you have experience with Noah's could you take a look?

http://www.webdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=103281

Thanks so much!