#2 A number of feature requests

[Neil Creek]

Hi. Love your program! Using it to generate a
browsable gallery of my 18,000 images on my HDD which
is accessible to the web via an apache server. Some
things which would I would love to see added to YAPPA
are:

*MUST have* Ability to have recursing albums to follow
recursing directory structure.
Next and prev links from album to album.
Thumbnail generation option to batch create all
thumnails at once, rather than wait for the first user
to come to the album.
Album hit count under album name.
Image filesize and dimentions under thumbnail.

Nice but not essential:
Voting/comments on images.
Ability to sort images by vote/views.
Sort images by filesize/dimention.
Random image script to extract to a "block" in a web
page.
Stats page that describes all hits and sorts by album
etc.
Admin page to add, describe, organise etc all images
and albums.
Random image album generator (makes albums from random
selection of images).

Just some ideas that I think would make your great
script even better. The only one I would ask for
above all others is recursive directory album
generation.

[Patrick Beckhelm]

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I second the suggestion for batch thumbnail
generation. It would help a lot in terms of reducing the
lag-time that users get if they're the first ones to view
an album.

Similarly, I'd like to request that a batch generation of
the various sizes of images be implemented. So, you
could run a script that would resize and cache the
640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768 images so that
there's less lag when a user tries to view them.

It's probably trivial to write a script to do it, and if it's
not something that will ever be implemented, I'll
probably do it myself, but it would likely be useful for
the Yappa community.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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I second the motion of batch creation of thumbnails,
but I'd like to extend that to include the batch creation
of already "convert"ed images to whatever sizes that you
want (say you only offer the ability to get 640x480 and
800x600...you would specify that and they'd get created
in one fell swoop).

[Patrick Beckhelm]

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I decided to get around to writing a script for batch
resizing photos so that you can create all thumbnails and
whatever sized photos that you desire. It's quite the
simplistic script, but is available here:

http://pb.kenjim.com/prime.sh

This script, in its current form assumes that your directory
structure is like so:

$pixdir/_thumbnails
$pixdir/_640x640
$pixdir/_800x800

...where $pixdir is the directory actually containing the
photos. Work with the script, it's not tough to follow.

Feel free to use, abuse and distribute the script. I should
be rewriting the script in perl sometime, but I'm not sure
when. If anyone else does it first, feel free to post a
link so I can check it out.

Patrick

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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What would be nice too is that when you remove pictures,
thumbnails be removed by the same time :)