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
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I'm curious of your ideas:
Can you post up a sample of what said page would look like in your idea?
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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."
get rid of home link on menu with menu_links
change album main page with items_links
<?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>
- check for and remove unused mods and themes
- 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]
tags_in_album shows description in one block, tags in another. No view or image stats.