Album admin notes area

BillWill

Joined: 2008-08-28
Posts: 205
Posted: Tue, 2012-06-05 14:34

One of the blessings/curses of any script that uses modules and themes, is that the various developers have different ways of looking at things, sometimes one module relies on another, some themes rely on modules, and some modules rely on themes. Add to this similarly named mods with different actions, and keeping things straight from an individual gallery admin's point of view can be quite a challenge.

What would be very helpful to me, and probably anyone else who takes advantage of the treasure chest of these plugins is if there is an admin notes log, to keep track of things in our own installation. Nothing fancy, just a page of rows, each with a date entered, subject line, and a notes box. This would allow gallery admins to keep their own installation components straight, and in a way that makes sense to them. By the very nature of these forums and the documentation, things are classified by what each piece does, rather than what pieces are needed to give desired results.

This notes area would allow us to group modules and/or themes according to what we're trying to do, as well as keep track of tricks and traps we encounter along the way, so when we do figure something out, there will be notes there to remind us.

.02,
BW

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Gallery 3.0.2
PHP - 5.3.8 cgi-fcgi
Apache/2.2.21 (Unix)
mysqli 5.0.92
Clean Canvas theme

Toolkits = Exif, Gd, ImageMagick

 
jnash
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Joined: 2004-08-02
Posts: 814
Posted: Tue, 2012-06-05 15:57

I'm curious of your ideas:

Can you post up a sample of what said page would look like in your idea?

 
BillWill

Joined: 2008-08-28
Posts: 205
Posted: Tue, 2012-06-12 15:10

Hello jnash -

Thanks for asking. Here's is a brief example of what I'm talking about. It would be editable, since things will change over time. While putting this together, I also discovered it would be useful for making non-technical items regarding a particular album, like "Mr. Jones requests not to be tagged."

Item How Reference
dependency tags_by_group relies on tags module http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:tag_by_group
dependency grey dragon theme requires grey dragon mod  
annual pages create new year tab with custom_menus
get rid of home link on menu with menu_links

change album main page with items_links

http://gallery.menalto.com/node/105838
remove index.php from URL in .htaccess .htaccess gets overwritten with each upgrade, so put this section back in after.

&lt;IfModule mod_rewrite.c&gt;<br />
Options +FollowSymLinks<br />
RewriteEngine On<br />
RewriteBase /album<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f<br />
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d<br />
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php?kohana_uri=$1 [QSA,PT,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^$ index.php?kohana_uri=$1 [QSA,PT,L]<br />
RewriteRule ^index.php/(.*) $1 [QSA,R,L]<br />
&lt;/IfModule&gt;
&nbsp;
slideshow: requires crossdomain.xml in site root with this content:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE cross-domain-policy SYSTEM "http://www.macromedia.com/xml/dtds/cross-domain-policy.dtd">
<cross-domain-policy>
<allow-access-from domain="*.cooliris.com" />
</cross-domain-policy>

&nbsp;
regular speed checklist - optimize database in phpmyadmin regularly[br /]
- check for and remove unused mods and themes
&nbsp;
2012 auction album using remote slidshow at www.theirsite.com/annualfund.html &nbsp;
to replace photos - upload via ftp
- mark resizes as dirty, then refreshes
- mark thumbs as dirty, then refresh
- if applicable mark exif as dirty, then refresh
[p](must do each of the above steps one at a time)[/p]
&nbsp;
Fix photo credits &nbsp; &nbsp;
dependency author module requires exiv2 http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:author
my forum questions http://gallery.menalto.com/user/nnnnnnnnnn/track &nbsp;
show tags for individual photos in sidebar show_tags &nbsp;
dependency GreyDragon theme requires GreyDragon module http://gallery.menalto.com/forum_theme_greydragon
resize tags_by_group and captionator see forum post http://gallery.menalto.com/node/105956
change number of photos in remote slideshow change page size in rss module via admin panel http://gallery.menalto.com/node/105955
album page thumbnails to remove album owner from thumbs in album view, edit info/helpers/info_theme.php &nbsp;
sidebar album info module diffs about_this_album shows #photos, views, description and tags in one block

tags_in_album shows description in one block, tags in another. No view or image stats.
dependency organize module require exif module to sort by date captured http://gallery.menalto.com/node/105611