Hi All,
let me say I've been happy with PHPix for the past month or so as I've implemented v1.
There was one MAIN feature which was going to make me switch to some other album program, and that was the ability to use a database to store a description about a given photo.
I see there is some description ability in 2.0, but I'm not sure if it goes down to the indivudal photo level. I do appreciate the fact that PHPix doesn't need a database - it certainly means that it has a wider audience appeal. I don't really need viewer comments, just the ability to add some text to a photo for a commentary -- granted, after you upload 100 photos of your recent trip, you are not going to sit down and write up something about all of the photos (erm, are you?), but adding a few comments to a select few would be VERY nice.
Also, in V1, I've got an issue with how to sort the photos inside an album to display in a desired order. I'm just modifying the filename - is there a better way?
Well, onto the feature I'd like to share with you. If you'd visit http://www.modernmustangs-tb.org/ , you can see a site I help set up. In the EVENTPICS section, look at Members. Select that one member, CHRIS KELLEY.
Note how in the NAV BAR, there is an extra item for [View Bio].
One of their requests was to have a place to upload members' pics of their car and be able to write something about it. I thought I'd make some fancy member page with photos below it, but in needing to get something done ASAP, this seemed VERY easy to just modify the nav bar section to look for an "HTM" filename which is exactly the same as the album name, and if so, allow the BIO to be seen. I guess this is the same strategy used for the album contents in V2, although I only saw V2 this morning.
I'd like to stay with this package, esp. since there seems to be an active developer base here.
FYI - I had looked at another pkg. named GALLERY, but it uses NetPBM (what a pain in the ass) instead of simple GD or IM. With respect to picture descriptions, he told me "The data is serialized to the file system using PHP's serialization code.". I don't know what that means, but perhaps its a better way than having all those ___desc files.
His project is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery/ , but its interesting that most of his FORUM msgs are filled with some type of ERROR problems because of its complexity, AND he doesn't support nested Albums like PHPix, so don't think I'm trying to promote his AT ALL - just floating this "serialization" thingy if it fits here.
thanks,
i look forward to becoming a part of the advanced user base here.
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2001-02-12
jaymer, the next version (2.1) will make it a lot easier for you to provide your own hooks into the layout... Do you think it would be sufficient if it allowed you to do something like, for example:
Hi All,
let me say I've been happy with PHPix for the past month or so as I've implemented v1.
There was one MAIN feature which was going to make me switch to some other album program, and that was the ability to use a database to store a description about a given photo.
I see there is some description ability in 2.0, but I'm not sure if it goes down to the indivudal photo level. I do appreciate the fact that PHPix doesn't need a database - it certainly means that it has a wider audience appeal. I don't really need viewer comments, just the ability to add some text to a photo for a commentary -- granted, after you upload 100 photos of your recent trip, you are not going to sit down and write up something about all of the photos (erm, are you?), but adding a few comments to a select few would be VERY nice.
Also, in V1, I've got an issue with how to sort the photos inside an album to display in a desired order. I'm just modifying the filename - is there a better way?
Well, onto the feature I'd like to share with you. If you'd visit http://www.modernmustangs-tb.org/ , you can see a site I help set up. In the EVENTPICS section, look at Members. Select that one member, CHRIS KELLEY.
Note how in the NAV BAR, there is an extra item for [View Bio].
One of their requests was to have a place to upload members' pics of their car and be able to write something about it. I thought I'd make some fancy member page with photos below it, but in needing to get something done ASAP, this seemed VERY easy to just modify the nav bar section to look for an "HTM" filename which is exactly the same as the album name, and if so, allow the BIO to be seen. I guess this is the same strategy used for the album contents in V2, although I only saw V2 this morning.
I'd like to stay with this package, esp. since there seems to be an active developer base here.
FYI - I had looked at another pkg. named GALLERY, but it uses NetPBM (what a pain in the ass) instead of simple GD or IM. With respect to picture descriptions, he told me "The data is serialized to the file system using PHP's serialization code.". I don't know what that means, but perhaps its a better way than having all those ___desc files.
His project is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/gallery/ , but its interesting that most of his FORUM msgs are filled with some type of ERROR problems because of its complexity, AND he doesn't support nested Albums like PHPix, so don't think I'm trying to promote his AT ALL - just floating this "serialization" thingy if it fits here.
thanks,
i look forward to becoming a part of the advanced user base here.
Jaymer...
http://www.jaymer.com
jaymer, the next version (2.1) will make it a lot easier for you to provide your own hooks into the layout... Do you think it would be sufficient if it allowed you to do something like, for example:
<? include("local.inc"); # defines get_comment() ?>
<div name="comment">
<? get_comment($album) ?>
</div>
The new template-based system would make this easy easy easy.