Photo album

Hi,

I have a great idea! I have a site where a lot of people would like to post their photos. But not in a forum, no..in a photo album.

I found a script called phpGraphy.. but I've adapted it a little, because with the original script you couldn't delete and rename directories and delete photos. Also I changed the function to add a comment to photos.

Ok, what I want it to be able to do is the following:

• Members of my vB forum can upload pictures, but can't rename, make or delete directories. Only the administrator of the forum can do that.
• Members can only edit the description and delete the pictures that they have uploaded.
• When you click the picture the name of the member who uploaded the picture must be shown.
• Members login on the photo album using the cookie from vB, so they won't have to login.
• The photo album directory where the scripts are is not within the vB directory. http://domain.com/pictures and http://domain.com/webboard .. I don't know if this is going to be a problem.

Because I don't have enough experience with php it's hard for me to build this... So I would appreciate if someone could help me make this very cool addon for vB.

I've included the script I've adapted... so you can take a look at it..

[Overgrow]

Hi there.. go to my site and see if my VB hacks will suit your purpose. Here is the main forum page:

http://www.overgrow.com/edge

Select Image Gallery down below on the list (yes I know you said not in a forum, but see it first...)

Choose a post. Below each person's name where you would see the Edit/Delete icons, you will see a little camera that says Gallery.

This is my photoalbum application. It shows all of the photos that the registered user has uploaded and allows other users to scroll through them. It keeps track of the most popular galleries and shows those at the bottom. It allows the user to edit their own gallery-- change the image name or add a description.

If you have imagemagick or the right GD library you could mod it so it shows thumbnails instead of the full size image scrunched. This photoalbum works in concert with the Image Gallery hack by Herb that is available here on these forums. If you want the photoalbum, let me know.

Thanks for your reply Overgrow!

This is a nice image gallery, but not really what I'm looking for. I am very satisfied with the system I'm using now. The only thing that needs to be changed is what I said in my first post.

The system I use works with directories and ImageMagick creates the thumbnails from the images in the directories.. it works great. I have several directories for different types of photos and everyone can add comments to the pictures. It has to be a standalone script and only using the information from vB to login so people can upload pictures to the directory (categorie) where the picture belongs.

So, if there is still someone who wants to take a look at the script.. don't hesitate to do so..

What I would do... is figure out how you can take out their member's stuff.. and implement the vbb member's database... and just do alot of editing...

this is also something I would like to see on one of my sites

Overgrow, have you released that picture modification of yours?
It'd be at least a start to what I'm proposing here.

I think your screenshots are awesome Phoenix! The system you are describing would be one I also would like to have. It's close to the thing I want!

But who would like to make this hack?

Btw.. I use ImageMagick on my system.. it works great! My hoster installed it for me.

That's just the thing, there's no one to make the hack
At least I don't know how to do it, I just made the screenshots by editing the html heh

Where could I get ImageMagick to try it out?

[Overgrow]

OK I'm willing to write a better gallery hack eventually.. Here is the main issue:

For a really good Gallery you must have some sort of graphic conversion software installed on your server-- ImageMagick or an updated GD Library. I've never written a good gallery application because my host does not have either of these installed and will not install a new package.

So when we finally move to our own box we can use something to size things down to thumbnails. This creates a huge problem when you try and release a hack publically... I will get 100 replies about how NewImageSize() doesn't work or something like that because they don't have the proper libraries installed.

I don't even know how to install these things off hand so I am not qualified to tell people how. I'm gonna stumble through it on my own box.

Should the hack:

1) Use the updated GD?
2) Imagemagick?
3) A different processor?

Should the hack:

1) Ignore pitiful requests for help with the libraries in order to get it out faster
2) Build an install routine that tries to put the libraries in their place (won't work with 90% of the vb's who can't root in packages)
3) Give detailed instructions on where to get these things and let people flail about

Thanks...........

[Freddie Bingham]

GD can create some aweful looking thumbnails.

NetPBM is a viable alternative to use and valid reasons for using it are listed for this Gallery

[Overgrow]

Glad to have you chime in, freddie. A client pointed out your gallery.php as something he would like to have. Any reason you haven't released it?