I didn't use the script below to create thumbnails "DoH!" but I did use 
PhP to put RANDOM pictures on my website.  
http://www.screechowl.org/scouts/woodbadge/wbpics.php

the source is at  http://www.screechowl.org/php-mysql-code/wbpics.txt

enjoy, scream, laugh, cry, what ever it takes.

Sam.

Karl Bongers wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:41:06AM -0500, Shawn wrote:
>  
>
>>I want to take an ls of a directory and dump it into an html file (pics) for temporary use. Until I get a sight up with thumbnails (read lack of time right now).
>>What's the best way to do this?
>>    
>>
>
>This script will make resized jpgs/thumbnails/html-index out of a dir full
>of jpgs, suitable for web viewing.  Uses convert from ImageMagick.
>
>#!/bin/sh -v
>SCRIPTNAME=$0
>if [ "$1" == "" ] || [ "$1" == "--help" ] || [ "$1" == "-?" ] ; then
>echo use# $SCRIPTNAME directory
>echo where directory = path to scan for .jpg files.
>exit 1
>fi
>
>if ! [ -d $1 ]; then
>echo Error: The first parameter should be a directory name with picts.
>exit 1
>fi
>
>WEBDIR=$1_web
>THUMBDIR=thumbdir
>THUMBFILE=$WEBDIR/thumb.html
>#BAKDIR=`date +m%md%d`
>
>if [ "$3" != "_2NDPASS_" ] ; then
># first invocation, where we create a new backup path based on
>
># create our thumbnail directory.
>echo Creating thumbnail directory
>mkdir -p $WEBDIR/$THUMBDIR
>
>echo "<html><head><title>Picts " `date` > $THUMBFILE
>echo "</title></head>" >> $THUMBFILE
>echo "<H1><B>Pictures</B></H1><P>" >> $THUMBFILE
>#find $1 -name *.jpg -exec echo \<IMG SRC=\""{}"\"\>  >> $THUMBFILE \;
>
># use find to recursively call ourself as 2nd invocation to
># convert the file.
>find $1 -name "*.jpg" -exec ./$SCRIPTNAME $1 "{}" _2NDPASS_ \;
>
>echo "</body></html>" >> $THUMBFILE
>exit 0
>fi
>
># 2nd invocation(find calls us on 2nd invocation.  We are given
># $3 = "_2NDPASS_"
>
>if ! [ "$3" == "_2NDPASS_" ]; then
>echo Parameter 3[$3] not a 2nd phase operation.
>exit 1
>fi
>
>if ! [ -d "$1" ]; then
>echo The folder [$1] does not exist.
>exit 1
>fi
>
>if ! [ -f "$2" ]; then
>echo The file [$2] does not exist.
>exit 1
>fi
>
>FNAME=`basename "$2"`
>DNAME=`dirname "$2"`
>echo \<A HREF=\"$FNAME\"\>\<IMG SRC=\"$THUMBDIR/$FNAME\" ALT=\"$FNAME\" \> \</A\>  >> $THUMBFILE
>#echo "<BR>" >> $THUMBFILE
>convert -quality 35 -geometry 320x256! $2 "$WEBDIR/$THUMBDIR/$FNAME"
>convert -quality 50 $2 "$WEBDIR/$FNAME"
>
>
>
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