Importing albums from folders

[Rayiw]

Hi guys,
I have a similar problem, and currently working on alternatives to do this.

I'm a newbie, do not sure what is the most efficient way to do this, and I'm also struggling to get albums to display to guests, so if you have any insight into this I'd appreciate it.

Ok here is what I am testing.

I use a tool called Sothink SWF Quicker. I use the Album template.
I create a flash album with external images. (The reason why i selected external was to see if I can create one album, for many different images)

It creates the html display code which I load into a forum post (with html enabled)
You will have to play around with the sizing to make it fit, but this is html.
The question is where do I load the images and swf file?

Right now I have a folder called images on the server and placed everything in there.
I provide a full link to the content from the html and it works.

• benefits are I can batch upload any number of images.
• It has a slide show with a reasonable size image, with control options.
• It is flash so images are protected from download
• Also protected from linking too.

Issues:

• Not sure it works well with photos of different orientations. (I have manually post processing rotated some images and shrunk them to fit vertical dimension, I need to pla around with centering the image)
• I'd like to custom name the browser
• I want to add captions somehow

Questions.

1. If I add an attachment to a forum or article, what is the physical address location? (I'd like to address items for display, ie attach an album with embedded images)
2. Once you have added html into a post, how do you redisplay it to edit it?
3. I have checked various posts about album support and have not come to a conclusive solution, if anybody has any better solutions please advise.

I took a look at PHPMotion, but its too time consuming uploading images in threes and labeling each individual one. Then you have the different authentication to deal with.

If you want to take a quick look at what this looks like go HERE

Would be interested in your comments.

thanks