Interesting - does the sitebuilder program take care of re-working the gallery.xml file to match up image names and thumbs to which it's attached?  If so, then I just wasted a whole bunch of time.

My workflow for creating (or updating) goes like this:

create folder on my desktop called "images" with appropriately sized images
create folder called "thumbs" - re-size and save the images into that folder

Copy & Paste template folder from svBuilder program onto desktop, rename it to the gallery name, then remove and toss the template "images" and "thumbs" folder, and replace them with the ones created above.
Open gallery.xml (in Dreamweaver), manually modify the image names, the captions, etc. to fit my gallery and save to the folder, THEN I open svBuilder.  When I do, all the images and thumbnails appear and I build my gallery (which builds the index.html file in the folder I pointed to).  Upload, and enjoy.

When updating, I simply open the local folder, replace the images, replace the thumbs, and update the gallery.xml file to fit my needs.  From there, I open my FTP client, and upload the "images" and "thumbs" folder, and the new "gallery.xml" file.

Perhaps, since I'm a newbie to all of this (about 25 days ago, I couldn't program a blank page to say "hi")...
...and in three weeks, I've built the following:

http://www.sonic.net/~roo/SCWEP/
http://www.sonic.net/~roo/automotive/

and started up a new forum:

http://www.sonomaweddingforums.com

Perhaps I'm doing it the long (or wrong) way??

Hi,

you are correct that svBuilder and BuildGallery.php do not automatically sync up. svBuilder is used to modify a LOCAL gallery (on your hard drive) by writing to the gallery.xml file. BuildGallery.php is used to create or modify a REMOTE gallery (on a web server) by writing the XML and creating the thumbnail images. To sync between the 2 tools you will need to use FTP to download and upload the latest files.

I imagine the workflow being like this:

1) Create your remote gallery with BuildGallery.php

2) Download gallery folder to your local machine

3) Open Gallery Folder in svBuilder to configure it

4) Upload gallery.xml to web

If you want to add new images to your gallery, just add them to the remote images folder and re-run BuildGallery.php. Your svBuilder configuration will be retained. If you want to re-configure your gallery with svBuilder you will need to re-download it.

Can you supply some more detail? You mean you followed the 4 steps above and then tried adding new images?

This may be a silly question but it's worth asking. Can you confirm that you are using BuildGallery version 2.1? BuildGallery version 2.0 works with SimpleViewer 1.9, BuildGallery version 2.1 works with SimpleViewer 2.

jack

I'm a bit puzzled by this white screen. It looks like there are some errors but you are not seeing them. Could you try a small change to the code of buildgallery.php on your server? Back-up your gallery first – I'm not suggesting anything dangerous but it's always good to have a backup before you mess with code. If you want to be super-cautious then create a small test gallery and mess around in there.

The buildgallery.php file starts with some comments and then there are a couple of lines like this:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
error_reporting(E_ALL);

Don't change these lines, just add one more line in-between them like this:

header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL);

That's a number one by the way not a lower case letter l. Let us know if you get any more output instead of the white screen.

jack