[Ids-devel] IDS bugfixes/enhancements

[timduru <ti...@ti...>]

Hi ,
Just thought I would send a small message  about some of the modifications I made, 
well overall I'd like to say that IDS works quite well and it's really very useful for my site :)

Over the years I've made quite a few modifications, I think a few users could be interested by some of them. 
Some are just bug fixes,speed optimizations, and a few new features and enhancements.

You can see the modified version running there:
http://fursuit.timduru.org/view/

It's based on 0.81 but it shouldn't be too difficult to incoporate the modification made from 0.82


I'm not even sure to remember everything I've modified and to get a full list I would have to make a more detailled diff with the original source code.
You know how it is, most of them were quick hacks 'on the fly' but they work fine ;o)

But I'll list some of the modifications I remember of below:

+ exif problem, when an image had exif info into it,  the thumbnail was including the exif data and so making it like 30KB too big. (that one was really making dialup user yell ;o)  )

+ speed optimization in non date sorting mode, (as it was sorting by date first even in name sorting mode, and that can be quite slow on a few thousands pictures directories)
From what I've tested it can be about 15x faster for large albums if you don't sort by date.
2x only if you sort by date.

+ a few 'software errors' problem fixed, like it doesn't stop even if one picture is corrupted, but keep displaying the albums.

+ pretty url system
that one needed quite some rewriting all around in the code, but that was one of the biggest complaint I was getting from the users: that the urls were not really friendly. 
with the new system the url is just like browsing regular directories
and you can just append ',imagename' to see an image.
(have a look at the online site)

+ possibility to just put a file in an html  file in the directory corresponding to an album, so that the content is included and displayed in the album
(it's useful to me as I allow both the image archive to be browsed by IDS and raw apache directories, I then configured apache to display the same html file IDS is now using as the header of the directory, so I don't have to enter the comments twice)

+ CGI::Cache compatible to speed up things, (well it's not configurable it's either include the code or comment it so far, but it's located at the very beginning of the code) I've tested it for some time and it worked quite well and were making things faster. 
But I then removed it as I update my page quite often, so having it cached too much was not the best in my case.

+ added the display of the first filename of a subpage after the page1...2..3.. at the bottom of the album
+ added next and prev page links
+ search function was not working with symlinks
+ cookie changed a bit to make it work with multiple virtual hosts, seems to be working , but might need some more debugging .. 

some of the modifications / features are in the config file, some others would need some more cleaning to be incorporated.

It might also need some customization for general use as some of them are  quite focused on the way I use it for my site.

Well let me know if there is some interest in all these modifications. ;)

Timduru