Dear piwigo users,


I only installed piwigo several days ago and loaded a few photos.

As far as I understood the concept, "gallery" is a collection of "physical" photographs and "album" is a view into the physical collection. This concept allows creation of views without data duplication.

Maybe I am thinking incorrectly, I would like to use piwigo to create views of the galleries (as above) and then be able to use the photos from the view/album as an input for other work. Ideally without making a copy of the album/view.

So I thought, it would be good if it were possible to access the album via a network share. Or for example, if piwigo could create symbolic links from an album photo to some local directory which then be accessible via network.

The work flow I imagine is this:
1. dump all photos from camera (or other source) into gallery
2. call sync inside piwigo to add new photos
3. review the galleries and create albums based on some criteria
4. access photos from an album via a network share for processing
5. put results of processing somewhere...

it is the step #4 I am most interested .
in $5 it would be good to have it in the same piwigo installation and somehow link it with the original image in the album/gallery, but this is at a later stage.

I am relatively sure that it is possible to write a script which would scan piwigo database and create the needed links. Does something like this exist? If something like this does not exist, would someone provide guidance how to create the script?

Thanks

panda