We started to discuss about upload in another topic and Jackson Yap said the following :

Jackson Yap wrote:

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I am looking for an upload mod that auto resize image to the max size that I allowed and also auto create a thumbnail for it if possible and not always depending on me to create thumbnails.

Another mod which I need will be to allow multiple uploads, and to enable my users to "create" the category they want, so that the category will be created when they upload the photos.

I like phpwebgallery because it is simple, however I also require additional permissions for my users to upload into their proposed category and even upload without permission from me if I have granted their group permission already.
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Jackson Yap wrote:

yep.. it will be good if the upload feature can be improved to make it more seamless.. Thanks! :)

Thanks for your support.
I would like to explain another idea we have linked to upload, so maybe you will appreciate it too.

On the french side of the form, I open the debate on making virtual categories as uploadable.

Logical scheme:

- Add a new directory in /galleries/ as mbr-upload and synchronize.
- Set mbr-upload as locked category
- Create one or more virtual categories and select category mbr-upload as target for upload in virtual categories
- Now when a member wants to upload in a virtual category, le link between the uploaded picture and the virtual category is created.
- When you (or other admins) validate the picture the link is available and the picture viewable in the virtual category.

Benefits: all external upload are in the same directory, you don't need to create others and to synchronize them.

Another idea: Maybe further, a group can create virtual category with a already defined real category target.

Thanks for your reply.

Yep, it's exactly what I mean.
Let just chrisaga to see how complex it is.
I am not sure it is.
Need time to implement, need people maybe to code a bit.

VDigital wrote:

Yep, it's exactly what I mean.
Let just chrisaga to see how complex it is.
I am not sure it is.
Need time to implement, need people maybe to code a bit.

When dealing about these new features, we must be very concerned with security :

- Denial of Service
- Acces management (R/W rights on the categories)
- Roles (wich users can create subcategories, upload pictures, validate pictures, ...)

I'm not very fond of automatic validation : I'm not sure I want to let any one allowed to upload on my gallery to be able to validate what they have uploaded.
I'have some friends that may have a strange sens of humour   ;-)

We have started a topic like this one in the french section  and a couple of PWG users seems to be interested.

I think that it'll be usefull if someone could write some specification of these evolutions, based on this topic.
Maybe in this forum at first so we can discuss them, then in the wiky.

Could you do this ?

Last edited by chrisaga (2005-12-06 23:27:37)

Thanks Jackson !

No other english speaking user interested in this topic ?
Are these specifications complete yet ?

1- Make a copy of include/config_default.inc.php
    Name it as include/config_local.inc.php
2- in that one (local), comments are in French (a bit surprising we know),
    but parameters name are in English (Are they clear enough?) ,
    so please update as you want:

// upload_maxfilesize: poids maximum des images à télécharger, en kilo
// octets.
$conf['upload_maxfilesize'] = 200;
 
// upload_maxheight : hauteur maximum des images à télécharger, en pixels.
$conf['upload_maxheight'] = 800;
 
// upload_maxwidth : largeur maximum des images à télécharger, en pixels.
$conf['upload_maxwidth'] = 800;