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burthold
Junior Member
USA
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 Posted - 03 August 2002 : 20:38:53
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Well, I thought of having all new users automajicly have a photo album entry but I personally don't like people flooding out the photo album by making a run on a forum. It would be a good way to run up your bandwith and kill your disk space. I have been on vacation I will look at adding and admin option to create users automaticly on signup I am also working on size to fit pop up windows for showing the photos. I am also looking at just adding an admin option to run through all the users and add any not currently photo ablum users.
Thanks for using the album!
Wes
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rick7165
Senior Member
USA
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
426 Posts |
Posted - 07 August 2002 : 14:53:19
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Well, could you have posted this on a new thread? It doesn't have anything to do with my photo album that is made for snitz. I envite you to try my album and talk to others who are currently using it.
Wes
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rick7165
Senior Member
USA
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Posted - 07 August 2002 : 15:31:02
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Sorry you took me wrong I wasn't attacking your mod... Just letting you check it out it might help if you want to advance or improve your code. I write some stuff and pick things from all different mods to create one... Just thought I'd pass it on as we know we all try to improve the code. :)
My Apologies
Rick
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Well, could you have posted this on a new thread? It doesn't have anything to do with my photo album that is made for snitz. I envite you to try my album and talk to others who are currently using it.
Wes
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
426 Posts |
Posted - 10 August 2002 : 16:03:50
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Not at all I just didn't want confusion on what I am working on and any other similar mod. As a code writer you know its not as easy as cut and paste from one code base to another. I am close to releasing a new version of the photo album that includes some features that are identical to the photo album link you posted but had it in the works before hand. I am also making album administration more powerful. The abliltiy to allow or not allow 5 of the most popular graphics formats Gif, Jpeg, Tiff, Bmp, and Png. Bulk user addition. Photos now display on the same page as the thumbnails. Thumbnails sit on top and the pic changes underneath them. This makes for easy navigation.
Stay tuned should be released within the next week. I want to test as much as I can before I release this time 
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Pouyan
New Member
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Posted - 10 August 2002 : 17:00:23
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burthold,
wow! That sounds exciting...can't wait 
See if you can add an "approve pictures" feature for Admin or moderators to be able to view and approve or remove pictures posted by members.
If you can allow albums to be broken into different categories, up to 2 or 3 levels deep.
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 10 August 2002 : 21:44:36
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I have been thinking on adding administration of albums so admins could delete any image they didn't like. I don't know about and approval mode. That could get ugly on sites with more than a few people posting pics. I have also thought about categories for user albums I don't know if I would allow more than one level it can get pretty complicated if you have 3 levels under a main level to navigate for people who just want to view pictures. I'll play with it and see what it looks like. Thanks for your feedback!
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Pouyan
New Member
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Posted - 11 August 2002 : 02:31:18
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I don't know about an approval mode. That could get ugly on sites with more than a few people posting pics.
Well how about giving Admin the option to turn auto approval on/off ? Albums can be approved by default or not. Most popular photo gallery applications I have seen have this feature.
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I don't know if I would allow more than one level it can get pretty complicated if you have 3 levels under a main level to navigate for people who just want to view pictures.
I guess the features I asked for are more likely to be seen on a "Photo Gallery Mod". Your's is "Photo Album". Photo Gallery consists of several Photo Albums. I guess one level is ok for small photo albums, but once your album or gallery gets large it is much better to organize by setting up categories however you like up to 2 (or even 3/4) levels deep. This won't make it complicated for people who just want to view pictures, it makes your application more powerful & customizable for your user.
Take a look at these two examples:
http://www.cjwsoft.com/aspgallery/demo/
http://savannahwebdesign.com/demos/ProfessionalGalleryv4.0/default.asp |
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
426 Posts |
Posted - 12 August 2002 : 03:16:34
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The albums I have looked at usually don't allow deeper categories than the user i.e. user->category->pic. I haven't seen many that allow the user->category->category->pic kind of setup. I am working on the user->category->pic setup with the ability to move pics around to diffrent categories after they are uploaded. I am now currently setting up the ability to approve or disaprove photos by admins when you go to the photo album as an admin it will list all the users with albums that need photos approved you will then see all the photos that need to be approved. If you find a pic that you don't like you can delete it from there. Users will also have the ability to mark photos visable or not so they don't have to delete photos if they just want to take them down tempararily. A user will not be able to change the view status until the photo has been approved. Admins will be able to turn approve on or off and also set the number of categories a user may have.
I have also setup admins with the ability to delete any single image from an album or upload a pic into any album. This is currently working in test.
I have setup multiple image types. This is working in test.
I have moved to a diffrent GNU based thumbnailer that doesn't require installing any files but still requires read/write/execute permissions and the aspexec dll to be installed on the server. There is no way around the dll install that I can find. It is freeware. The thumbnailer will generate thumbnails as jpegs. It doesn't handle some gifs. It looks like corrupt gif headers.
I am also toying with rolling the component and non component source code together in one base. no more seprate code bases to maintain.
So, with all this on the plate It may be longer than next week before I get it all done plus writing the update scripts to keep current albums from blowing up.
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Classicmotorcycling
Development Team Leader
Australia
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Posted - 12 August 2002 : 03:31:14
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Looks great the changes you are doing Burthold. Can not wait for the release.
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Pouyan
New Member
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Posted - 12 August 2002 : 13:14:25
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The albums I have looked at usually don't allow deeper categories than the user i.e. user->category->pic. I haven't seen many that allow the user->category->category->pic kind of setup.
We're not on the same page. Yeah I understand what you are doing, you are categorizing the album by user instead of categories. Your album ir organized by usernames that have submitted pictures and then under each username all the pictures they have submitted right ?
I was talking about having different categories for users to surf & submit their pictures under the right category, so for example in your photo album you might have a category called "Cars" and then under it: "BMW", "Mercedes", "Jaguar", if a user wants to submit a picture of a BMW they go under cars--> BMW's and submit. That way if a user wants to view BMW pictures they know to look under the right category instead of browsing every forum username to find pictures.
Another example is to have a category called "Forum Members" and then under it have "Male Members" & "Female Members", that way male & female members know where to go submit their pics and if someone wants to view male members pics they know where to browse... |
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 12 August 2002 : 14:19:33
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Oh! Well that makes since. You're right we wern't on the same page. I will not build the album out that way. I like users to have their own category and not just put all pics in category types like cars, people, etc. These are personal albums not just an open board album. Well, despite the confusion your post did give me good ideas about how I wanted to finish the album mod out. I will be locking the current feature set and focus finishing adding the features, code cleanup, and compatiblility issues with snitz 3.4 and 4.0 when those code bases become available.
Thanks for all the feed back!
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Pouyan
New Member
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Posted - 12 August 2002 : 17:21:14
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Yeah it makes perfect sense now, you are doing a totally different type of photo album. The photo album that Rick gave us a URL to earlier and the ones I posted are all organized by categories. They serve a totally different purpose, and therefore cannot be compared to your's. Yes you were right, Admin approve feature is not necessary for your mod.
Gosh...if a forum has 1000 members your photo album is gonna have 1000 categories ? one for each user that uploads pics ? Then how are users supposed to locate the pictures they are looking for in your photo album ? give it some more thought...
Maybe you or someone else could take this mod further to have it organized by categories and give the option to sort by user, submission date, or category and allow users to submit keywords for each pic upon upload then a search funtion. That way it can be used as an all-purpose photo gallery more powerful than all the expensive gallery applications available in the market |
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burthold
Junior Member
USA
426 Posts |
Posted - 13 August 2002 : 02:59:54
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Well, On other sites like mine people post links to thier pics and yes it can be thousands. I am simply housing these on my site as a bonus to my members. You can browse the photos of other members. I want to add a search feature once this code base is stable. Generally, people come looking for a particular members section to see what they have done to their car. I may make a diffrent version with the option you request but not until my current format is done and stable. One thing you have to deal with on large albums is sorting thousands of pics in just a few categories and display them. The fastest paging solution I have ever found doesn't work with ADO and MySQL compatiblility is an issue. It can be done with the code base that I am working on now. I just can't fork it until this version is done.
Don't give up yet! What you are looking for is in reach it just will take some time for me to finish this and fork it out and test with your ideas in place. Not to mention 3.4 will be out soon. Man, it's a good thing I like writing code!
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ssnapier
Junior Member
USA
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Posted - 19 August 2002 : 21:59:14
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| has this been run on 3.4 yet?? I could REALLY use it if it works... |
If freedom were shareware, soldiers are the ones who pay for it. |
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