Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Paying Work: PhotoAlbum modification

[Shaun M. <sh...@ae...>]

On 19 Aug 2005, at 17:10, Marino Pascal wrote:

> Shaun,
> you've probably thought about it already but how about using
> http://gallery.sourceforge.net  ?
>
> It has all the features you are looking for, it's a mature product,  
> actively developed, open source.
> It has support for
> Nuke 5.0+
> NSN-nuke
> Post-nuke
> Geek Log
> phpBB2
> Mambo
>
> and at an earlier life for PHPWS 8.

Used it before. It's ok, but I'd rather stick with phpWebSite modules  
so I don't have to hack a 3rd party product each time either changes.  
It's a false economy and the integration always looks a right dogs  
dinner with two very different interfaces sharing the same page. That  
just wouldn't do for a professional site.

In any case, I've just about finished hacking photoalbum myself now.  
Had an excess of programming juice one night and a few hours later....

It now has personal albums that each user can upload into, assignable  
ownership of albums by an admin, search facilities, better resizing  
of images and comments. Just got to tidy up the config a bit so it's  
more general purpose and I'd like to replace some of the error  
handling so that users don't get errors about recompiling GD when  
they try to upload a Windows bitmap.

It probably also needs integrating into Approval for creation of  
albums by users as at the moment they have to ask an admin to create  
one and assign ownership before they can upload.

Other than that, done. Thanks to Jim for reminding me there was an  
owner field, it proved much more simple than I thought.

I then went on to add private forums to phpwsBB. That's done too  
now. ;-)

Shaun
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