#56 Soft Galleries

[Philippe]

In Singapore, galleries are "hard" in the sense that
they are based on file directories. In my previous web
site, I had developed (in Javascript, unfortunately) a
"soft" gallery system : the gallery content was
generated on the fly based on any field in the
database, e.g. : an album name, a posting period
(allowing to list the most recent images for instance),
a keyword (landscape, people...), a location, etc. The
database itself was a single csv file that I maintained
with Excel on my PC. Since my programming skills are
very poor, I would expect that a seasoned developer
could implement this quite easily in Singapore. My
experience is that such a system brings a tremendous
degree of flexibility to an image gallery.

Philippe Frize
http://www.frize.de/photo/

[Tamlyn Rhodes]

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This is in the works (there's been a 'categories' field in
the db since v0.9.3!) but it will be in addition to the
'hard galleries' as one of the very appreciated features of
sg is the ability to just dump pics on the server using FTP
or whatever. It may also be a SQL-only feature since the
distributed csv structure doesn't lend itself well to this
kind of application - we'll see.