Well, had the most horrible flu this weekend, and while flat on my back, doped up with whtever was around to make my will to live hang on, I created the first pass of my Zenfolio uploader.
It’s not polished in anyway way, there is no error checking, and it doesn’t check to see if you have uploaded anything previously (yet). What it does is take a heirarchical directory of files – JPEG’s, and dynamically converts PhotoCD’s there are any – and tries to match that structure to Zenfolio.
It’s main reason for existing is for moving large quantities of photos from a server or a workstation that have been previously organized in a file-structure, but need to be also need to be published to Zenfolio – and to have the process be as automatic as possible!
Zenfolio is neat, if that you can have unlimited nesting of your albums, so you can go deep in your heirarchy. As for recomended structure, here’s what I have:
1 set of directories fashioned like this:
Year->Month->Event->Subevent->SubSubevent
The other set is organized less date-like:
Person->Event->Subevent->SubSubevent
There are some sets of photos I want to associate with me, my wife, a certain event, etc.
Something I haven’t figured out yet is how to make a Photoset (Gallery) instead of a Group and then a default Photoset when you reach the end of a directory tree. This would possibly make it look much cleaner. It’s on the to-do list.
I was able to upload about 2.8 Gigabytes of files before it segfaulted – I think Convert must have choked on a bad file. That’s not too shabby, but there’s still more work to be done. Hopefully this is a leg up for someone else.
As always, enjoy!
-Dan