Re: [Phpwebsite-developers] Wish-list for 1.x core

[Verdon V. <ve...@ve...>]

Hi Shaun,

On 5-Jan-07, at 9:02 AM, Shaun Murray wrote:

>
> On 3 Jan 2007, at 14:27, Verdon Vaillancourt wrote:
>
>> * Core image upload function (perhaps added to core/class/File.php)
>
> I was thinking about this this morning when working out how http://
> www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ might be used to present
> images in blog or a photoalbum rewrite or in an ecommerce module
> where you want small images in the description but big images, or
> multiple images.
>
> I'd like to see a core Image class instead of bundling into File like
> we used to. Maybe it's parent is File so that there's common
> functions but there's different requirements often such as
> thumbnailing, resizing, watermarking and viewing.
>
> I was also thinking that an 'album' class was needed to manage a
> group of images or maybe this should be able to more generally manage
> a group of files including audio, video and normal files. Then with
> an album core class available it'd be easier to upload, present and
> manage multiple images in a standard way across the modules.

I've come to realize since my initial post that there is a fairly  
good image class in File Cabinet (that's what the Featured Photo mod  
is using and it seems a good example of how it might be used) but  
it's not as complete as what you're describing. I wasn't really  
looking there for 'core' things. I guess that's just semantics and in  
the long run probably doesn't matter where things are located in the  
file system, but I was considering File Cabinet a mod and not core  
(albeit a core module). Another way it might have been handled would  
have been to have put File Cabinet's file and image classes in /core/ 
class/ and I might have found them there. You say tomato and I say   
tomato ;-)

Anywise, I agree that thumbnailing/resizing and watermarking are  
critical functions. BTW... thumbnailing/resizing is still available  
in /core/class/File.php

>
> Have a play with lightbox2 btw. It's lovely.
That is a nice visual effect. Someone has made a mod for zen-cart  
(open source e-commerce solution) that uses it and it's pretty popular.

rgds,
verdon