Flash Image Gallery Backend 03.08.08
I need a backend to load the images into a flash gallery.
The flash gallery has already been made but needs to be modified to become dynamic.
The fields are very simple, only 1 title and 1 image, so the db structure and programming should be easy and cheap.
I don’t mind if the backend interface is in flash or html.
Programming should be in php with mysql.
Here you will find the details:
http://70.85.16.14/test
The image gallery works this way:
There are fixed categories (Editorials, Celeberties, Sports..) that never change.
When I click on the category it will load the subcategories as an image gallery (see link above). Each category is define by the first image I load in the picture set of the category to make things even faster to program. Each category only has 1 title as in demo.
What is missing from the demo is the next/previous buttons which need to appear if there are more subcategories than what fits on the page.
When I click on the subcategory, the scene changes to the detail image. Here the subcategories all move to the bottom of the page with that scroll with a typical ‘horizontal scroll’, while above them the actual pictures of the subcategories appear on a scroll bar type of layout.
Notice this detail: All images are the SAME height, which means that when it loads a wide picture it will be frame wider (with same height) as the vertical cut images. Example image number 4 shows this.
These picture images do not have any title and must of course follow this layout.
In the programming of the backend I would like you to include an open source component for the handling of the image sizes and dimensions so that I can set the resolution and/or size and the component will format (WITHOUT cropping) my images to fit the layout. (If this aspect is too expensive then point it out so you can keep the cost down as much as possible).
The first image of the picture set will define the picture of the subcategory. in this case, ALL subcategory images are the same size and layout so if the user loads a horizontal cut image as the first image of the picture set it is OK to crop it automatically to fit the layout.
I hope I explained the project well. I wrote a lot the the work is not that much 
