This are some simple php files and bash scripts to display your F-spot
-photos including information from the data-base on a webpage.
+photos including information from the data-base on a webpage. To get
+up and running follow these steps:
-You can exclude/include certain tags incase you want for example on
+1) You can exclude/include certain tags incase you want for example on
show pictures on the web that were tagged "Public".
To use the scripts copy config.ini_template to config.ini, edit it and
f-spot-db-reduce.sh --include='Public'
This will create a new smaller database that only contains information
-about pictures with the Public tag. Next run
+about pictures with the Public tag.
+
+2) Next run
./create_thumbnails.sh
This script creates thumbnails of all pictures and save them in local
-directories. I will only create 100 pictures though, so you will need
-to run it several times. This is done, so that you can easily run it
-via cron for example every hour on a remote server without creating
-jobs that last forever.
+directories. I will only create 50 pictures at a time though, so you
+will need to run it several times. This is done, so that you limit the
+time this tasks run, so that it doesn't get shut down on for example
+rented web-space where execcive CPU uses is an issue.
+
+3) install .htaccess
-Ones this is done you can visit index.php and everything should be working.
+edit the "RewriteBase" in the htaccess_template file and rename it to .htaccess.
+Onces this is done you can visit index.php and everything should be working.
Feel free to fork, send in patches, make suggestions.