Is the RSS global, or are there per album/sub-albums RSS ?

Jean-Marc Liotier

Joined: 2004-03-07
Posts: 80

Posted: Tue, 2004-07-20 15:27

I have with much joy noticed that the next release of Gallery will feature an RSS feed giving notice of the most recent items published. This is very welcome : finding what's new among many thousands of images was beginning to become a problem.

The Gallery I admin is used by several users, each having his own tree of albums under an album on the main page. Since each user's content is in substance completely independant, users won't care much for a RSS feed where they see what's new in other user's hierarchy. So my question : will there be only one global RSS feed for the whole Gallery, or will there be as many feeds as there are albums ?

Just as the slideshow can show images in an album and its sub-albums, I would love to see one RSS link per album showing the last published items in an album and its sub-album.

So what is actually planned for 1.4.4 ?

Jean-Marc Liotier

Joined: 2004-03-07
Posts: 80

Posted: Wed, 2004-07-21 08:42

In the same vein, an album page could optionally feature a "what's new" link showing the latest additions to the album tree under the current album. If the RSS code does that, the only additional code needed would be one of the simpler PHP RSS clients.

miamitom

Joined: 2004-07-09
Posts: 9

Posted: Mon, 2004-08-02 12:36

I am using the 144 RC 3 release on a Linux server on several sites and thought the RSS Feed would be cool. I pulled a feed only to discover that it dumps a list of every album on the site.

It even shows the links to the password protected directories! And clicking them takes you right into them ...

Is this fixed in the final?

I also noticed that the admin function seems to allow me having the .htaccess, config.php and setup directories in config mode (644, 644, an4 755) and even go back into the gallery. I would love never having to go in and fiddle with file perms to go into admin mode, but I am a poor reader of docs and maybe you mentioned this - I dunno but does Gallery now handle the perms during config or admin?

miamitom

Joined: 2004-07-09
Posts: 9

Posted: Mon, 2004-08-02 12:48

miamitom wrote:

I am using the 144 RC 3 release on a Linux server on several sites

Also, what would be cool and solve a lot of problems with RSS would be that you set up "correspondent" or "reciprocating" galleries.

In Gallery itself you set up a special RSS Album. This album will recieve an RSS feed from a reciprocating gallery on another site, and would respect the perms of the reciprocating web site's gallery. <ight even be a hidden gallery only available as an RSS feed. I would love this so I could set up special feed album.

Thusly, you should be able to pull up either an album or pic from the other server right into the Gallery.

What I would also like to see is the ability for my home page to pull an RSS image at random from a list of galleries. I have 3 or 4 sites I would like to pull into a page and show randomly. In phpwebsite, you can set it up to recieve RSS feeds, so I could pull in a feed from those same 3 or 4 sites right into a regular web site. Like a Gallery portal.

Something else you guys shold see for some interestiing functions - take a look at http://www.yafro.com . See how they link other galleries.

If you added this kind of functionality to Gallery, you could essentially set up your own little yafro.

-t-

signe

Joined: 2003-07-27
Posts: 2322

Posted: Mon, 2004-08-02 17:28

You need to make sure that you didn't enable the option in the config wizard to display all albums, because the RSS page explicitly excludes all hidden and permission-restricted albums unless you tell it otherwise. It also only displays a set number of the most recently updated albums.

At the very least, you should upgrade to 1.4.4 final.

Jean-Marc Liotier

Joined: 2004-03-07
Posts: 80

Posted: Wed, 2004-08-11 14:11

And the answer is...

It's a global RSS ! Too bad...

It would be really nice for us users of a common Gallery for multiple users to see the RSS feed behaving the same way as the slideshow as far as it's scope is concerned. I wonder how much of the slideshow code would be reusable for that.

drewish

Joined: 2002-08-19
Posts: 16

Posted: Wed, 2004-08-25 22:39

Hell, I'd be happy if I could specify the sort order. If I could sort by date I could pull the top 20 items off and display those. The seemingly random order it's in now is a real pain in the ass.

signe

Joined: 2003-07-27
Posts: 2322

Posted: Wed, 2004-08-25 22:46

It's already sorted by the last update, and the option to select the first (n) albums is available in the config wizard, as long as you're running 1.4.4 final or higher.

fishter

Joined: 2004-04-26
Posts: 6

Posted: Mon, 2004-08-30 15:33

Shame it's using the first (n+1) in my setup!

Fishter
http://www.fishter.org.uk/gallery/

Jean-Marc Liotier

Joined: 2004-03-07
Posts: 80

Posted: Wed, 2004-09-01 14:24

I submitted a feature request summing up my suggestions in this thread.
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1020449&group_id=7130&atid=357130

floridave

Joined: 2003-12-22
Posts: 27300

Posted: Sun, 2004-10-31 23:08

per-album RSS for Gallery 1.4.x

Jean-Marc Liotier Joined: 2004-03-07 Posts: 80	Posted: Tue, 2004-07-20 15:27
	I have with much joy noticed that the next release of Gallery will feature an RSS feed giving notice of the most recent items published. This is very welcome : finding what's new among many thousands of images was beginning to become a problem. The Gallery I admin is used by several users, each having his own tree of albums under an album on the main page. Since each user's content is in substance completely independant, users won't care much for a RSS feed where they see what's new in other user's hierarchy. So my question : will there be only one global RSS feed for the whole Gallery, or will there be as many feeds as there are albums ? Just as the slideshow can show images in an album and its sub-albums, I would love to see one RSS link per album showing the last published items in an album and its sub-album. So what is actually planned for 1.4.4 ?
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Jean-Marc Liotier Joined: 2004-03-07 Posts: 80	Posted: Wed, 2004-07-21 08:42
	In the same vein, an album page could optionally feature a "what's new" link showing the latest additions to the album tree under the current album. If the RSS code does that, the only additional code needed would be one of the simpler PHP RSS clients.

miamitom Joined: 2004-07-09 Posts: 9	Posted: Mon, 2004-08-02 12:36
	I am using the 144 RC 3 release on a Linux server on several sites and thought the RSS Feed would be cool. I pulled a feed only to discover that it dumps a list of every album on the site. It even shows the links to the password protected directories! And clicking them takes you right into them ... Is this fixed in the final? I also noticed that the admin function seems to allow me having the .htaccess, config.php and setup directories in config mode (644, 644, an4 755) and even go back into the gallery. I would love never having to go in and fiddle with file perms to go into admin mode, but I am a poor reader of docs and maybe you mentioned this - I dunno but does Gallery now handle the perms during config or admin?

miamitom Joined: 2004-07-09 Posts: 9	Posted: Mon, 2004-08-02 12:48
	miamitom wrote: I am using the 144 RC 3 release on a Linux server on several sites Also, what would be cool and solve a lot of problems with RSS would be that you set up "correspondent" or "reciprocating" galleries. In Gallery itself you set up a special RSS Album. This album will recieve an RSS feed from a reciprocating gallery on another site, and would respect the perms of the reciprocating web site's gallery. <ight even be a hidden gallery only available as an RSS feed. I would love this so I could set up special feed album. Thusly, you should be able to pull up either an album or pic from the other server right into the Gallery. What I would also like to see is the ability for my home page to pull an RSS image at random from a list of galleries. I have 3 or 4 sites I would like to pull into a page and show randomly. In phpwebsite, you can set it up to recieve RSS feeds, so I could pull in a feed from those same 3 or 4 sites right into a regular web site. Like a Gallery portal. Something else you guys shold see for some interestiing functions - take a look at http://www.yafro.com . See how they link other galleries. If you added this kind of functionality to Gallery, you could essentially set up your own little yafro. -t-

signe Joined: 2003-07-27 Posts: 2322	Posted: Mon, 2004-08-02 17:28
	You need to make sure that you didn't enable the option in the config wizard to display all albums, because the RSS page explicitly excludes all hidden and permission-restricted albums unless you tell it otherwise. It also only displays a set number of the most recently updated albums. At the very least, you should upgrade to 1.4.4 final.

Jean-Marc Liotier Joined: 2004-03-07 Posts: 80	Posted: Wed, 2004-08-11 14:11
	And the answer is... It's a global RSS ! Too bad... It would be really nice for us users of a common Gallery for multiple users to see the RSS feed behaving the same way as the slideshow as far as it's scope is concerned. I wonder how much of the slideshow code would be reusable for that.

drewish Joined: 2002-08-19 Posts: 16	Posted: Wed, 2004-08-25 22:39
	Hell, I'd be happy if I could specify the sort order. If I could sort by date I could pull the top 20 items off and display those. The seemingly random order it's in now is a real pain in the ass.

signe Joined: 2003-07-27 Posts: 2322	Posted: Wed, 2004-08-25 22:46
	It's already sorted by the last update, and the option to select the first (n) albums is available in the config wizard, as long as you're running 1.4.4 final or higher.

fishter Joined: 2004-04-26 Posts: 6	Posted: Mon, 2004-08-30 15:33
	Shame it's using the first (n+1) in my setup! Fishter http://www.fishter.org.uk/gallery/

Jean-Marc Liotier Joined: 2004-03-07 Posts: 80	Posted: Wed, 2004-09-01 14:24
	I submitted a feature request summing up my suggestions in this thread. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1020449&group_id=7130&atid=357130

floridave Joined: 2003-12-22 Posts: 27300	Posted: Sun, 2004-10-31 23:08
	per-album RSS for Gallery 1.4.x

Is the RSS global, or are there per album/sub-albums RSS ?

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