Yeah, I know, there are millions of websites out there that do exactly what I need. But—you probably already know that—I am a minimalist. What I want is a webpage where I can easily upload pictures to and get a page with just that picture (but with some alignment and file information). And I want it to be simple.
My idea is to use Skitch (the most awesome Mac app for taking screenshots) and it’s ability to upload to FTP servers. Then I have a simple index.php and a .htaccess. The .htaccess tells the webserver to not show the image, but to call the index.php (a PHP script) with the filename as parameter. This script returns a small HTML page that embeds the original picture and beyond that it displays the filename, the file’s creation date a small textbox with the HTML code to embed the image with a link to this page.
Additionally, it would be quite cool to generate preview images (75x75px crop jpeg) automatically when first opening the images’ webpage.
And even more, it would be great to add an archive.php that loads all the information it can get about the files I uploaded (just a directory listening in PHP) and displays it sorted by date and with preview images. Furthermore, I would like to upload more than just images (like zip archives), but these files would not get special pages or previews.
