What with the recent bout of photo displays from TPC, it occurred to me that I have piles of scanned photos from recent company parties, and I thought it would be fun to put them on my intranet, which is running Apache, although not mod_perl.

I searched for Slideshow on CPAN, and found Slideshow by Kevin Lenzo. This appears to be used in a classroom environment, and uses server-push to keep a series of clients looking at the same page. Then there's a group of modules for creating slideshows under Tk, which is also not what I want.

So I searched for perl web slideshow and found a large list of pointers to things that probably do what I want.

But rather than run the risk of wasting time downloading random code of unknown quality, I'd like to know whether any Perl Monks can give their seal of approval, or otherwise, to any Perl-based web slideshow packages that might be out there.

Note that I'm not even particularly fussed about doing this dynamically. I'll settle for a script that takes a list of files and spews out a series of static pages (although it would be nice to be able to do a meta/refresh, in order to have the pictures cycle by themselves).

Thanks for your pointers.


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In reply to Looking for a good Perl web slideshow script or module by grinder

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