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damned_colonial is right: all gallery software sucks too. I've just tried Flickr and it sucks too. I suppose it's not really a gallery site (like Fotopic), more a photo blogging site. I've put up the B-Movie: Lost Boys photos from Friday on it TEMPORARILY. No captions as yet. I can't find the way to change the appearance of a set, and if I read the FAQ right then free users get three photo sets total. Hints and tips from you enthusiastic Flickr fans on how to do what I actually want would be welcomed.
Gallery 2 is still annoying me. I've beaten most of the annoyances out of it and could probably beat many of the rest out (colours, logos, etc.) by hacking the PHP. Does anyone know how to get it to email comments to you automatically? Surely you aren't supposed to iteratively check possibly thousands of photos for new comments.
Slowly coalescing at the back of my brain is what I'd need to write my own gallery system. In unspeakable shell scripts, of course. I'll probably have to learn CSS as well, after having assiduously avoided it for several years.
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Date: 2006-01-19 02:33 am (UTC)Take a look at it here (http://www.dennisweavervisual.com/gallery).
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Date: 2006-01-19 09:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-22 02:08 am (UTC)See http://factsite.co.uk/cmine/ for test data ...
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Date: 2006-01-22 10:20 pm (UTC)The URLs suck (but I can live with that)
I don't think urls can be changed
you have to tunnel too far down to get to the albums (but I can probably work around that)
Your albums are user albums, If you create them through the admin interface, they show up on the front page under categories you specify.
the flood of random images on the front annoys me (but they can probably be disabled or at least hacked out)
The front page layout is controlled through admin->config->album list view->The content of the fornt page the default is something like "breadcrumb/catlist/alblist/random,2/lastup,2"
I think that getting rid of the "random" entry will make it go away it.
but the only thing making me cough up my own skull is that you can only go from the "normal" sized image to the full original image with a JavaScript URL, not a normal clickable one, so it will ONLY open in a new window, not in a tab. Is there a config option to get rid of this behaviour?
You'll have to hack the php
function theme_html_picture() in include/theme.inc.php contains
$pic_html = "<a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"MM_openBrWindow('displayimage.php?pid=$pid&fullsize=1','" . uniqid(rand()) . "','scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,resizable=yes,width=$winsizeX,height=$winsizeY')\">";Something like
$pic_html = "<a href=\"displayimage.php?pid=$pid&fullsize=1'\">";should do it. It'll probably lose all the navigation stuff...
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Date: 2006-01-22 10:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-19 05:12 am (UTC)Unspeakable shell scripting I have found really isn't worth the time. It saves a lot of pain in the long run if you ever have a problem that sounds like it would be actually require thinking about to write as a shell script, just stop and write it in python instead. Some people would advice Perl instead, of course. Perverts.
Gallery software does sound like one of those things were you would assume some person would have just done it absolutely right once, and we would all use it. Tragically not.
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Date: 2006-01-19 06:48 am (UTC)I have some stabs at it, scary as it is (with auto-support to build thumbnails and a single file for managing "rotate photo/thumbnail; create caption" (ratehr than a web interface, because that would mean needing access controls of various sorts and that's far too easy to fuck up). But it's funnier to roll something of one's own.
I really should adapt that to the naming schemes of the digicam and the camphone, shouldn't I?
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Date: 2006-01-19 07:48 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-19 08:11 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-19 09:27 am (UTC)In what way?
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Date: 2006-01-19 09:37 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-19 09:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-19 10:01 am (UTC)If you get a paid account, you get (or used to) several free 1-year subscriptions to give to friends.
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Date: 2006-01-19 01:23 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-19 09:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-19 09:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-01-19 10:08 am (UTC)If you have a few hundred hours to code up your own über-l33t photo gallery system and relish the challenge, go ahead. But it'd take a lot of work to get Flickr's functionality, with its API and feeds.
Secondly, Flickr is a multiuser site, and has social-network functionality. You can put tags on your images, and also look up any images with a certain tag. (And all such queries are exposed as RSS feeds as well.) You can make a list of friends/contacts on Flickr and get a feed of their latest photos. (Incidentally, I've done this at
These are the reasons why I gave up on my homemade gallery software, incidentally.
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Date: 2006-01-19 11:20 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2006-01-19 08:34 pm (UTC)