Gallery Block Module development: Usable permissions control

Dear Gallery-contribs,

I am trying to develop a plug-in like ImageBlock (courtesy Mr. Alan Harder, Cryptographite, etc.), which shows your access-control permissions and latest news feed in the LeftHand Sidebar for Gallery2. I have been involved in this long before Gallery3 was released, that's why I have chosen Gallery2.

I would really appreciate if someone can throw light on how to structure my module in order to develop it in an efficient manner. I was thinking of doing it the same way as ImageBlock, but it turns out to be pretty complicated and impossible to do. I have already developed a new table for the entries I require. But still I am very confused and need do complete this asap.

My idea of the plug-in is attached in the image. Please concentrate on the LeftHand sidebar below View Slideshow (Fullscreen).

Waiting eagerly for a reply,

Nipun Gupta
Carnegie Mellon

Access control and ImageBlock, that's it.

Hi suprsidr,

Thanks a lot for your prompt reply. The link makes them realize that here are the permission, and they "can" edit them. Putting the link here for Editing Permissions is a very small part of what I want to achieve. All the users who own an account on any gallery server can manage their access permissions better using this. It shows the latest news feed (latest changes etc made to the albums owned by the user), most viewed album, and random permissions (the same way imageblock shows random image). An ambitious initiative would be to make the Edit Permissions page a lot more usable and related to the context of these random permissions shown in the sidebar.

No, I don't have code to format this block since I don't really understand how the modules with blocks work, no tutorial is available for the same. I really need your help, if possible. Thanks again!

Nipun Gupta
Carnegie Mellon

Access control and ImageBlock, that's it.