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[add]

Hi all,
I have been searching for an interactive application or other type of technology that could search (by name) a digital photo mosaic for an individual photo-tile in said photo mosaic. Can anyone help?! Any info is welcome.

Thanks!

[TcM]

Can you give more details? I didn't understand exactly what you are looking for (what you will be searching)

[Brandon W]

I'm with TcM on this one, what are you actually wanting to search? What do you mean by search by name? Wouldn't that be like searching through the folder it's in...

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What I want to do is create a photo mosaic, digitally, using my own photos. Then, upload the photo mosaic into this application. Then, using this application, be able to search for one specific photo in my photo mosaic. This one specific photo could be called "Tree", so I type "Tree" into the search field of the application, and it zooms in on that one specific photograph called "Tree". Is there an application out there already like this, and if not how could I develop, or have one developed?

[BlaineSch]

Google Picasa here:
Picasa 3: Free download from Google

[Brandon W]

As Blaine and Jordan both mentioned. You have Picasa by Google which you can use and to create your own you would use HTML and CSS to create the display. Javascript for the interactivity and the zooming of the images. Then use a SQL database to hold the files which you will upload via PHP. Get PHP to retrieve the images from the SQL database which you will use JS to display them. And PHP to search, along when you upload the file get them to input a name for the image. Which will also be in the database then PHP will find that inputted name and display the image corresponding to the searched content.

Could be dynamic and would come out very nice :)