need help creating simple image gallery

[the_reverend]

First off, my server does have Image Magick, but I must be honest that I don't really know how to use it... I just know that it is capable of doing what I need it to do... which is:

I would like to have a set of directories on my site for different image galleries. They will be relatively small galleries (4-10 images). I don't want to get messy making thumbnails in photoshop and hand-coding it all as html... I know I'll end up with dead links, and I'd really like to learn how to do this right. So I want to have a php script look in images/... if there is not a corresponding thumbnail in thumbnails/, then I want image magick to create one. Then I want the script to display the thumbnail and have it link to the full-size image with the thumbnail image. Every 4 pictures or so, I want it to insert a <br>.

I'm not really a total newbie with php anymore, but I haven't really had to do anything quite like this before, so I'm a little lost.

Thanks for your help.

-John
http://www.reverendsgarage.net/

[the_reverend]

Instead of just checking if a thumbnail already exists, how could I make it check if an up-to-date thumbnail exists??? Should I just have it make sure the thumbnail date is later than the image date???

[Anon]

Check http://www.vddh.com/?page=scripts
it is an image gallery generation tool written in PHP which seems quite nice.
If it is not exactly what you're looking for, it may still give you a good idea.