a static html gallery generator written in owl lisp
work in progress, i may or may not introduce breaking changes
as a fast alternative to my cringe perl cgi script that used to power my website.
- owl lisp
- robusta (will clone as submodule)
- ImageMagick
$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/krzysckh/chai
$ cd chai
$ make
# make installthen, create your galleries like this:
- my-gallery/
- config.scm
- photos-from-somewhere/
- index.scm
- ....jpg
- ....png
- ...
- photos-from-somewhere-else/
- index.scm
- ...
config.scm, and every index.scm will be (eval)'d at runtime, and they must
return these association lists:
; config.scm:
'((css . use-default) ; this setting is not implemented yet
(gallery-template . use-default) ; explained below
(index-template . use-default) ; explained below
(page-name . "example gallery") ; the <title> and the <h1> title
(output-directory . "public_html")) ; output directory under my-gallery; index.scm
'((gallery-name . "gallery name here") ; name of the gallery (the title)
(date . (07 9 2023)) ; day month year
(description . "description") ; self-explanatory
(private . #t) ; if #t, add .htpasswd to dir.
(htpasswd . "/etc/httpd/conf/.htpasswd")) ; this can be skipped when
; private = #f'use-default can be used if you don't want to write your own
{gallery,index}-template. Though if you want to, a template is a function
that takes the body of a given page, so for example, an index-template could
be implemented like this:
; config.scm
`((css . use-default)
(gallery-template . use-default)
(page-name . "example gallery")
(output-directory . "public_html")
(index-template . ,(lambda (idx)
`(html
(body
(p "this will be an index to the gallery")
,idx
((a (href . "https://example.com"))
"a link to example.com"))))))Note that index-template is not just plain html, it's html written in
s-expressions (cool!!). This is what (robusta encoding html) does.
To get to know more, look at chai/defaults.scm, which defines default pages
as (robusta encoding html) expressions.
- chai doesn't try to sort the galleries in the index by date. sorry (for now),
- user-defined css doesn't work yet,
- the man page sucks
krzysckh 2023, 2024
krzysckh.org
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