Hi kenl,

It's a bit complicated because it also means that Piwigo API has to list users and groups and current permissions of any album.

Are you sure you want to manage album permissions remotely?

The Doc for the API is directly in yourpiwigo/tools/ws.htm . About completing the API, my point of view is that an API is not a copy of all the administration tasks Further more, as plg said, it can be technically complex

Hi

Thanks for piwigo - it's great!

We want to add piwigo as a module to our web app, providing the user with a single sign on experience.  The web app manages users and permissions and to keep user management in one place, we'd need to create & delete users on piwigo through the API.  We'd also need to create groups and assign them to albums as well as assign users to groups.  (We'd be hosting our own copy of piwigo).

I've taken a look at the API code and due to it's clean design, it should be reasonably easy for me to make the required changes.

Also, I see the term 'categories' is now replaced by 'albums'.  Will you be deprecating this term in the API any time soon?  As part of my changes, I'd like to rename the API terms containing 'category' and replace them with 'album'  (even if the underlying tables in the database still use 'category').  For backwards compatibility, I'd keep a copy of the 'category' API methods and point them to the new album functions with a note in the API comment that these will be deprecated.

Going forward, as new piwigo versions come out, we wouldn't want to be faced with having to integrate our changes every time.  We'd also like to contribute to your wonderful product. 

I'd be interested in any comments you have on my proposed changes as well as how I can go about submitting my new code to your code base.  I won't have the time to contribute on a regular basis so if I could forego the SVN song and dance, I'd appreciate it.  Is there someone on the project I could email my changes to, that would take responsibility for testing them and ensuring they ultimately get into the trunk code?

Regards
Chris

chrisa wrote:

Also, I see the term 'categories' is now replaced by 'albums'.  Will you be deprecating this term in the API any time soon?

It's not planned.

Personnaly I'm not favorable, an unknow number of tools and websites work with the API and I don't want tens of user asking for help.
Additionally the software pLoader (highly used) uses these methods are there is nobody to update it.

Finally, I don't see the interest, everywhere in the code we talk about "category" (even when I code new plugins I use "category"), "album" is just the text displayed

http://piwigo.org/svn/extensions/skeleton/trunk/