Using a table of contents

Application Photo Album Helper is meant for use with dynamic web photo albums. It assumes a web application produces albums from a set of image directories dynamically as opposed to photo albums where static HTML pages need to be generated in addition.

A table of contents file can be created on the server for a dynamic photo album when required. The table of contents can be used to specify album names and album types. Its is created as an XML file with the following format

<albumTOC>

<album name="China" dir="china" type="public" />

<album name="Denmark" dir="denmark" type="public" />

<album name="Dampfbahnclub April 2005" dir="dcl" type="private" />

</albumTOC>

To use a table of contents with an album published via FTP

  1. follow the steps listed in chapter "Publishing images"

  2. switch on option "use TOC"

  3. specify an album name and type before pressing button "Publish images now"

When a table of contents file is found on the server, the specified TOC entry is appended. When no TOC is found, a new one is created with the respective new entry. The TOC file is always named toc.xml located in the directory above the directory that is newly created during FTP transfer.

Please note: Option "use TOC" is only available when the Light Development XML Package is present in the lib directory of application Photo Album Helper. See also chapter Adapting the publishing process about how to customize steps in the context of FTP image file transfers.

See also

Publishing images

Different publishing configurations

Components used by Photo Album Helper