tazem
04-06-2007, 06:52 PM
I think I'm in over my head here and need some advice. I'm trying to add my fonts collection to my free graphics web site; which I am in the process of redisigning now. There are well over 15,000 fonts that I want to add. I'm looking for several things;
extract the info from the font file
add it to the database
pull info from database
display in HTML page
With my current font manager I can generate the sample gif's and basic html code to list them, so many per page, alphabeticly. I probably will do that just to get them up there. But that's just an interm soulution.
As I don't know ANYTHING about either PHP or MySQL, other than I have them with my host, it will likley take me months to learn how to do what I want. Is there anything out there already that may do some or all of what i need?
Here is a breakdown of what I'd like to do.
On the site
Search:
Alpha navagation - A-Z #
Catagories - comic, deco, grunge, dings, script, etc.
Designer - by name
Font Family
Font Style - bold, wide, condensed, etc.
Display:
Select number of samples to show on each page - 10, 20, 50, 80
More info - opens new popup with full character map image & other info
Sample:
Font Name : Revision
SAMPLE IMAGE
MySQL
Database:
font name
file name
zip name
charset name
font url
sample url
zip url
charset url
family
style
weight
designer
copyright info
creation date
revision
vendor
type
catagories (check list of about 30)
keywords-tags
other info
(anything else that may be needed)
Boy, I sure liked the first breakdown better! I best revise my learning timetable :o
Any help would be greatly appericated and earn you my undying gratitude.
tazem
extract the info from the font file
add it to the database
pull info from database
display in HTML page
With my current font manager I can generate the sample gif's and basic html code to list them, so many per page, alphabeticly. I probably will do that just to get them up there. But that's just an interm soulution.
As I don't know ANYTHING about either PHP or MySQL, other than I have them with my host, it will likley take me months to learn how to do what I want. Is there anything out there already that may do some or all of what i need?
Here is a breakdown of what I'd like to do.
On the site
Search:
Alpha navagation - A-Z #
Catagories - comic, deco, grunge, dings, script, etc.
Designer - by name
Font Family
Font Style - bold, wide, condensed, etc.
Display:
Select number of samples to show on each page - 10, 20, 50, 80
More info - opens new popup with full character map image & other info
Sample:
Font Name : Revision
SAMPLE IMAGE
MySQL
Database:
font name
file name
zip name
charset name
font url
sample url
zip url
charset url
family
style
weight
designer
copyright info
creation date
revision
vendor
type
catagories (check list of about 30)
keywords-tags
other info
(anything else that may be needed)
Boy, I sure liked the first breakdown better! I best revise my learning timetable :o
Any help would be greatly appericated and earn you my undying gratitude.
tazem