Photo album

[SpeedStreet]

It all depends what you are trying to accomplish, Filburt.

Uf you can integrate a gallery into the userprofile...that would be great.

Features from the end-user perspective:
GD/Imagemagick Resizing
Have a User Gallery that displays all galleries of users ala Photopost
Watermark and Hotlinking Protection
Integration with User Profile
User Comments and Ratings
..Maybe a Hot or Not type rating/randomization system?
Integration with Reputation system
State Tracking/ Featured Gallerys

Features from Administrative perspective
Set User limits on size, file size and number of photos per gallery
Moderator setup for galleries
Editing of photos, comments and users
User banning by usergroup to add/delete/moderate pictures

Let me know if you do go into developing this, Filburt. I'd like to offer my services as a creative consultant/project manager/UI developer if you are interested in building a team.

[filburt1]

Regardless of whether I would charge for it or not, I will not be hiring developers or other personnel (except possibly for translators, and the Spanish one would likely fall to the vBMS translator who did an excellent job). Sorry.

A clarification: when you mean integration with the reputation system, how would it integrate? The reputation system is designed for rating users, not pictures.

[SpeedStreet]

Originally Posted by filburt1

Regardless of whether I would charge for it or not, I will not be hiring developers or other personnel (except possibly for translators, and the Spanish one would likely fall to the vBMS translator who did an excellent job). Sorry.

A clarification: when you mean integration with the reputation system, how would it integrate? The reputation system is designed for rating users, not pictures.

Filburt,

I took it to PMs, since my idea is quite unique, and I don't want other galleries stealing it

[Giveit2u43]

Originally Posted by filburt1

There is a high degree of probability that I will make this. While I can't say this early whether it will be free or sold, it will sure be a hell of a lot cheaper than Photopost's ludicrous prices.

I hope you do decide to make this, if so I will be amongst the first purchasers or installers, I am highly satisfied with the vBMS mail system, and looking forward to the vb3 version and seeing the quality of the vBMS code makes me very excited about the possibility of a gallery from the same coder..

Features we would be wanting:

Favourites Gallery (with zip file download) a`la Photopost, so members can select a batch of there favourite pics and store them in there own gallery for quick viewing (with an acp usergroup limit on number of photos that can be stored)

A "new photos" indicator on the forumhome that is general for whenever a new photo is added, with maybe a link to a page that displays the latest pics with an acp limit on pics per pics and total latest)

a "new photo uploaded" indicator on a members profile with a link to the new photo and a link to the persons gallery..

No links or anyhing when the member does NOT have any photos to there gallery..

Comments & Ratings on Photos..

A universal gallery where all pics are shown by date they where uploaded, but user has an option for there photos to not be included in this gallery at time of uploading and when editing there picture.

The ability to tag a user so that you will recieve an EMail/PM Notification when they upload a new photo.

The ability to ignore a persons photos, but seperate from the ignore feature in vbulletin. and maybe for sites like ours where a lot of the pictures are pictures of the person themselves the ability to select photos by Gender, or profile fields set up by the admin for the same feature on a wider scope?

those are features we`ve discussed that we would like. I`m sure there`s more but that`s a good starting point.

I do hope you will decide to go ahead with this Filburt1.

[ap0c]

the ability to show zip and pdf files, so if a user wants to download them they can. Some galleries have the ability to upload pdf files, some with zip support, but none do both

[gmarik]

Filburt, I've used PhotoPost a lot and can tell you one thing - Coppermine 1.21 has more functions. What people really need:

1) a batch upload function
2) copyresized depending on is this a horizontal or a vertical picture, no of the commercial products had ever such an option, ir you've even seen those ugly pixel chunks, you would preffer some part of the photo to the blurry image we get via PhotoPost

Get it?

[sabret00the]

sorry i'm late and aint read the thread properly but i read something which i thought was crap, the worst feature in PP is the member galleries, the rest of the product is fine but that bit really lacks, i was hoping that by the time of vB3 final they would've had the option to remove it, but it's not there

[SVTBlackLight01]

filburt1,

Is this going to be a vB integrated only gallery? The biggest problem with the PP integration is that it integrates with 5 or more different forum's software and to have complete forums integration with all of these is just not practical from their standpoint.

That being said, a few suggestions I have just off the top of my head:

- Complete style integration with vBulletin
- Mass resizing of images for admins, not just thumbnails
- A 'View New Posts" feature similar to vBulletin
- vBulletin style postbit/reply comment system

- Most importantly, an importer for other gallery systems.

[b6gm6n]

I've tried all gallery softwares, and Photopost Pro (4.7i) is the best by far - who said 'upload batch options'? PP-pro can handle .zips, multiple upload file promts (any number you choose) directory upload system, the lot, you can also disable the members section (i saw that question to) you can do almost anything in PP, rebuild thumbs & images, resize, rotate, post comments, edit, upload all file types you choose, videos, style system , styles can be taken from vb, (can even have your gallery nested in your vb index (with-thumbs)), new posts features, moderation system, forum integrations, basically it's the best gallery soft out there, which other softwares get 'inspiration' from

-b6

[SVTBlackLight01]

<i>(4.7i)</i>. That is one problem. It took 9 tries to work out most of the bugs of version 4.7. I stopped upgrading a 4.7g, but as of that release there was still no option to mass rebuild images other than the thumbnails. Other than hacking, there is no way that I know of to use the vbulletin styles. It may be the best software out there but it is only due to a lack of alternatives. There are bugs in Photopost that have been there since the 3.X versions (e-mail notification problems, links to members photos when there are none, which has already been mentioned here once, and some others)