What's this "singapore" stuff?
Chuck Norcutt
Dan Mitchell wrote:
> Chris Barker wrote:
>> Lovely, Dan. Those are excellent shots. I really like the display
>> system as well (Singapore) and I've downloaded it to try for myself.
>
> This is the newest version of singapore -- I was using the previous
> one before, but they've updated the default style for galleries and it's
> that little bit cleaner and the CSS works better. Now I have the task of
> moving everything over from one to the other, but on the upside, that'll
> finally give me a chance to (re)organise everything while I do that.
>
> Style aside (and there's other skins for singapore) it does what a
> good gallery app should, ie I just dump files into folders on the web
> host, and it magically handles thumbnail creation for me; I can edit
> file descriptions from a browser, etc.
>
> [OT tech stuff follows, beware]
>
> The main advantage of singapore (for me) is that all the data is
> stored in plain text files (rather than the more common sql database [1]
> that (for instance) gallery uses). That makes it simpler to back up /
> restore, and should be easier to move between web hosts. I can also
> understand the code in singapore, it's just about simple enough for me
> to keep up with -- so I've tweaked mine to put the exif info in.
>
> -- dan
>
> [1] using mysql for metadata storage is almost certainly more efficient,
> but because I don't understand how databases work, I don't trust them.
> Text files, I get.. :)
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