JOK3r;

You say

I've allready created a website with a gallery

then you say

but I want to use Piwigo to manage the gallery's photo's

What exactly do you mean? These statements imply you have a website with a photo gallery which does not use Piwigo but you want to use Piwigo to organise the content of that other gallery - or am I mis-understanding the comment.

Is there a way that I can change the way Piwigo uploads photos

There is not option (as far as I have seen) to change the location of the photos uploaded to Piwigo, and I think it would not be easy to create an option to customise the location (- maybe the developers have plans for this in the future but I have seen nothing to imply this might be the case).

is there a way I can tell my gallery how to find and categorize the photo's into the correct albums

If you mean Piwigo - no.
If you mean a different gallery - you will need to ask them.

Last edited by pewe (2012-07-07 13:44:39)

This is not what Piwigo was designed for.

I've sent you an e-mail.

Hi, I don´t know if this was solved but in linux systems I can create a symbolic link (ln -s) to the destination folder.  this way I can have the upload folder outside piwigo tree. Maybe one needs to configure apache to follow symlinks accordly.

Cheers :)

sudo wrote:

If you would like to modify the directory and you know php you can edit the file "functions_upload.inc" under directory: /admin/include/

In line 211 there is how the directory hierarchy is created.
In line 218 id defines how it sames the path designation in the database for the galleries to know where to pull it from.

So in theory if you change how it saves the images then you could tell it to pull from a specific directory.

I hope this helps.

Sudo

Sorry but editing core files is not a solution
The symlink is a much better one