I'm honestly not trying to get someone to do this for me, but all pointers, comments and suggestions will be eagerly read and pondered!
Okay... with the sticking points/confusion points in bold, I'd like to be able to:
- Upload a JPEG
- Get its pixel dimensions
- Resize it to a thumbnail (to be shown in a web page) <- this is where I really hit the headscratching point
- Add some metadata
- Zip the image
- Make it available for download
1: Uploading a JPEG. I can do this easily enough with PHP, but for personal satisfaction I'd appreciate suggestions for how (and if) I should approach this in a more LC-centric way.
2: Getting pixel dimensions. I have this sorted using shell() to call exiftool, which I also use for [4]. As with [1] I'm interested in how I might do this in LC, but it's not a sticking point.
3: Resizing the image. For a regular LC stack I could simply set the filename of an image to the JPEG file, scale it as appropriate, then export a fresh JPEG which can be referenced by HTML. But the LC Dictionary lists the export command as being for desktop and mobile platforms; it doesn't list server. How should I approach using LC on a server to resize an image?
I could use a different server tool, but I want to do as much as I can with LC! It should help me learn this aspect of LC, I think and hope.
4: Adding metadata. Got this working fine using exiftool called from shell().
5: Zip. Not tried it yet but I'm reasonably confident with the zip entries in the Dictionary.
6: Offering the zip for download. This is easy stuff.
I realise allowing file uploads on a public server is a potentially very risky thing to do. I'm very happy to read any thoughts about this too.
Keith