JCDSee creates an HTML directory listing of any folders it finds so that they can be browsed as a website. Folders can contain any type of document, but it handles photos especially well by creating multiple sizes, navigation helpers and a slideshow mode for sequential viewing.
- Recognizes 5 general file types: image, folder, music, text and "unknown". "unknown" file types can include video, or anything else, but will not have an icon unless you provide one manually.
- Will generate & cache thumbnail icons of any jpeg, gif or png files it finds.
- Four image display modes:
list,thumb,singleandslide. - Fast: Properly handles slow Internet connections via pre-caching images.
- Allows owner to add description of each file / folder.
- Supports dating / numbering of files and folders.
- Short URLs with no configuration.
- Internationalized: supports UTF-8 file / folder names, URLs and descriptions. See example of 20+ languages on one page.
- Progressively enhanced: can be used without JavaScript.
- Private: No login, cookies, etc. required.
- Accessible: Can be used with screen readers, keyboard navigation, etc.
- Perl with these modules installed.
- An xml sitemap of all folders on your site. See example sitemap here. This can be generated with various free tools, but I have not published my code yet.
- Apache mod_rewrite for clean urls.
JCDSee supports clean URLs via mod_rewrite (see .htaccess).
If you link to a folder, that folder will be loaded in list mode by default.
https://jac.pics/pics/1976/
You can also specify one of four display modes (list|thumb|single|slide) as the root folder to change the way images and icons are displayed.
https://jac.pics/list/pics/1976/- List mode (just like default above).https://jac.pics/thumb/pics/1976/- Thumbnail mode (less words, bigger pictures).https://jac.pics/single/pics/1976/cat.jpg- Single image display.https://jac.pics/slide/pics/1976/cat.jpg- Begin slideshow starting with "cat.jpg".
You can use the special /go/ url to redirect to any folder in the system. Supports fuzzy matching, no explicit definition of URLs is necessary. See #29 for more info.
Examples:
JCDSee generates a very basic flat-file database in each folder named .jcdsee. This file is a pipe-delineated file with this format:
filename.jpg|Optional HTML description of the file.
Fancy file name support:
2015-08-13_This-is-the-day.jpg- Date prefix will be understood by the software and displayed differently to visitors.99_Almost_number_100.png- Simple number prefixes (used to set order, etc) will be hidden from website visitors.El Niño.jpg- Spaces and UTF8 characters in file names are okay.
- Do not host user-supplied images, files, etc. JCDSee is intended to be used for content you created and are sure is safe.
- The software requires all files to be in a folder called "pics".
- The system tries to prevent unauthorized access to files and folders, but needs more testing.
- Does not use SQL, cookies, sessions, etc.
- On jac.pics I use an admin script to automate many tasks (editing database, building the sitemap, etc). Althought the admin script is now available on GitHub, it requires additional scripts to work properly.
You can use this script from the shell to generate thumbnails, create the .jcdsee database files, debug problems, etc:
./jcdsee.cgi debug <directory> <display_mode> <pic_cur_idx>
All arguments in <> are optional.
URL Parameters have been deprecated as part of the "Better URLs" upgrade. Ignore this section if using mod_rewrite. If you are using URL parameters, they should still work, but the app will respond with clean-urls by default. Support for params may be removed in future versions, but for now these are your two options:
display_mode=[list|thumb|single|slide]- defaults tolistmode.pic_path=/path/to/picture.jpg- link to a single folder or picture.