New verison of Simple module (for easy uploads and editing)

I did some more work on the 'Simple' module that I was working on. The general goal is to make it easier for non-computer experts to upload photos to a group website. It provides a parallel upload and editing interface that removes most of the confusing options. It's still far from perfect, but it's getting to the point where it meets my needs.

*) Uploads from web browser (autonaming, etc)
*) Simple editing (only description and title)
*) AJAX style rotate of photos
*) Allows user to delete only photos/albums they own
*) Create a new album to hold photos
*) Hides all the permissions and confusing stuff

Test site is available at http://test.notate.net/gallery.

Current version attached, but if you have already installed the first version please 'uninstall' it before trying to upgrade to this one. I changed the permissions around a bit to make them simpler, but didn't get the upgrade function working properly.

nice
wouldn't it be nice if a user (let's say a kid..) could simply click on a "simpler version" link "anywhere"..so maybe as a link in album/item actions.
My users for example sure to have problems finding the way they could adjust the theme for their albums, but on the other hand, couple of other users needs all the functionality, so i can't simply set Simple to be the default
(and as far as i understand this module, atm it is on/off, fixed)
just an idea..

I have downloaded Simple, uploaded the module un gallery2/modules.
Then I have Installed Simple in the Administration, then activated it.
I have made a ziped file of about 60 pic called Voyage.zip.
In the Upload file menu, I entered the c:\I M A G E S\Voyage été 2005\Voyage.zip.

When I click on Upload file, I get the http://www.dentsdelion.com/gallery2/main.php web page, with an error message: The page cannot be displayed

I must do something wrong.

Haru

Flat.

It finaly uploaded, when I made it smaller than 8MG, my mistake in the first place.
It loaded, but I see it nowwhere...

System info:

My page is here: http://www.dentsdelion.com/gallery2/

phpinfo here: http://www.dentsdelion.com/gallery2/phpinfo.php

The problem is such: I have uploaded 2 ZIP files of about 5-6MG, with Simple Module, getting a message "successful loading", but I don’t see those images appearing in my album.
Also, if I ftp to my site, there is only one file, loaded separately, in my /var/www/html/gallery2/g2data/albums folder.

Thank you so much for your help.

Haru.

It works! I uploade 5 pictures totaling 1MG, and it worked.

Now, is there a better way to upload more file, like 20 or 40 at a time? Another module or a program?

Thank you for your precious help!
Haru.

I see. I will try that.
Thanx again.
Haru.

Yes you can delete the file after you're done with it.

do you have message.po file for this modules ?

You dont even have to remove rest of the permissions, because links for ur simple modules are edit THIS photo, edit THIS album... i changed them to Simple edit album and simple upload picture...so user can choose tnx for this module

maybe disable some modules in site admin -> modules and manage blocks in site admin -> themes -> matrix and edit permissions by browsing to your top album and clicking edit permissions.

HEY - it works. I created a new account and all new accounts created are only seeing the "Simple" options. Awesome.

I hate to be a further pain, but if anyone has an idea about how to get users back to their albums, I would appreciate it. Using the simple module, I turned off the link to "Your Album" because that page has all of the options I want hidden. That's great except if someone wants to come back and add more photos to their album they are going to have to search for it. Could be a pain if I get a lot of albums.

Great work. One suggestion: Add an option to add the image to either the beginning or end of the album.

How do I set it up, that the admin hasn’t the simple links in the sidebar? (I have the Gallery 2.0.3)

I have tried to edit the modules\simple\module.inc at line 100

if (isset($permissions[$itemId]['simple.edit_all']) ||
(isset($permissions[$itemId]['simple.edit']) && $ownsItem)) {
/* only for images and not on the gallery view page */
if ( ! $isAlbum && isset($wantsDetailedLinks[$itemId])) {
$links[$itemId][] = array('text' => $this->translate('Edit This Photo'),
'params' => array('view' => 'simple.SimpleEdit',
'itemId' => $itemId,
'return' => 1));
}
}

To

if ($user.isRegisteredUser) {
if (isset($permissions[$itemId]['simple.edit_all']) ||
(isset($permissions[$itemId]['simple.edit']) && $ownsItem)) {
/* only for images and not on the gallery view page */
if ( ! $isAlbum && isset($wantsDetailedLinks[$itemId])) {

$links[$itemId][] = array('text' => $this->translate('Edit This Photo'),
'params' => array('view' => 'simple.SimpleEdit',
'itemId' => $itemId,
'return' => 1));
} else {}
}
}

It happens nothing.
I’m not very well versed in those things, can anyone help me, please?

And sorry for my bad english - I should have better watched out in school ;)

THANK YOU!It works. Thanks for the effort!

Leon

How to install this file to gallery?
May are you upload it in other format?

I discovered the only way to do this is to disable the your album link. It then forces the new albums to be created by simple mod only.(except for admins)

Incompatible module! 
Core API Required: 6.0 (available: 7.2) 
Module API Required: 2.0 (available: 3.0) 

I recieve this error when I tried to get the module going. How would I go about fixing this little error? It appears in the modules page of the site admin. Thanks.
__________________________________________
Gallery version = 2.1 core 1.1.0
PHP version = 5.1.2 isapi
Webserver = Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Database = mysql 5.0.18-nt, lock.system=database
Toolkits = Exif, Thumbnail, ImageMagick
Acceleration = none, none
Operating system = Windows NT NSENGWEB 5.2 build 3790
Default theme = matrix
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)

Makes sense, thanks!

I'm using version 0.2.0 with Gallery 2.1.1. I've done this before but perhaps that was before upgrading Gallery from 2.0.x... it doesn't rotate images now. Sometimes the web browsers says there was no reply and sometimes it says the rotation failed. Any ideas what is wrong?

Gallery 2.1.2. installed simple module ver. 0.2.0.

Installed and actived were ok, but nothing is changed. Admin and new users have always the full edit and add photo.

Do I have to set something somewhere?

Thanks.

I like this idea. I actually feel that one of the problems with G2, for newbies, is the upload module.

I would like the option of either, selecting many pictures, or selecting a folder, instead of a zip. Newbies won't be doing zip files.

please check my post:
http://gallery.menalto.com/node/59157

The user interface for upload used by multiply.com is great!

Let me know what you think.

Florian

Sorry nobody has had anything to say about "Simple" and Custom Fields...

Another topic, though: the Simple module appears to strip double-returns from the description field during Edit. Is there a fix for that? It's a royal pain, every time you want to edit a description, to have to spot the line breaks in the text and put a second -Return- on each one.

Of course, it would be better if G2 would simply render each paragraph as a properly html-coded < p >text< /p > paragraph, but that is presumably not under the control of the Simple module.

--eon--

I'm sort of answering my own question here. I find the simple module way superior to the core.edit/upload and just right for my non-computer savvy users. I wish I could use it. But I realy need the move/rearrange option - otherwise, I - the admin - have to move things around for my users who have to email me each time they need to change the order for whatever reason, mainly because they have made mistake when they were uploading the stuff! It is very frustrating for me and for my users since we have thousands of pictures!

I could not figure out how and where I can modify the simple module itself, so I looked how I can use the jensperms which has the move/arrange option built in and a simple module for uploads/edits. I figured out how to substitute the core edit in jensperms with simple module edit. Just changed core.edit to simple.edit in module.inc in jensperms, and voila! Works OK.

BUT, that does not solve my other problem - moving/rearraging the items! In order for jensperms move option to work, you have to give the core.AddItem & core.AddAlbum permissions to the user. And that destroys the whole purpose because it also gives the user all the edit caboozle - edit permissions, change themes, etc, etc. - the stuff I wanted to avoid in the first place!

So back to square one!

Is there a way to allow users to edit their own posted images?

Where the instructions?

thanks
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