Upload to Walgreens, Walmart, Snapfish, etc for Printing
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Maverick0984
Joined: 2012-07-25
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Posted: Thu, 2012-07-26 15:04
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I've seen this mentioned in several locations throughout the forums but nothing really concrete. I've even seen a couple options like fotomoto and Digibug but that isn't exactly what I'm looking for. For my purposes I'd like an easy way for family and friends to send photos to one of the chain retail stores for printing purposes. I personally would prefer Walgreens, but I imagine any of the above mentioned in the subject would get the job done. Most of my target users enjoy being able to just drive to Walgreens and pick up their photos in an hour or two instead of paying double and having to wait for them to be shipped like in supported methods such as Digibug. I am a software engineer by day, but have only been on the Gallery bandwagon for a short while, so short in fact, I only know of version 3.0.4 Just thought it'd be a nice feature to have. In the meantime, I'll look into coding stuff myself. |
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so I'd have to spend some time learning how to code up modules to be of any use.
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I originally coded a module for walgreens/shutterfly uploads, but it was made specific to my site, and for my wife to use. I'm going to dust it off and see if I can make a 'real' module out of it, but I've been -way- tied up lately at work, and have had no time at all. Perhaps soon.
James
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Yeah, that's okay though. If you are okay with removing any personal information from the code, I'd love to take a stab at pushing it towards a module, with due credit to you of course. I don't mind broken code that once worked.
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After a careful, believe me, review, I think a new module would be the best approach. This was one of my first 'mods' to the G3 and is so specific and sloppy, I'm afraid it's too 'bad' to share and provide anything meaningful to anyone. Here is the run down of it's functionality though:
* Adds an icon to the sidebar and menu's for 'upload to shutterfly' (or walgreens)
* User clicks on icon, pop-up confirmation dialog displays the thumbnail with 'send it/cancel' buttons (see caveat below for allowing the to/from email addrs)
* E-mails the full-size photo to the appropriate service (I used phpmailer libraries to do this in my case, separate requirement)
* Pops a green success banner after successful email
Now, the caveats:
* for walgreens, you have to e-mail: save -at- walgreens.com with the 'from' e-mail address set to your walgreens account email
* for shutterfly, you have to have a 'share site' created, and this will provide the e-mail functionality for uploading pictures (I use the main share site e-mail address you create when creating the share site)
* Both of these options should be configurable via the 'upload confirmation dialog' for individual users to provide this. I'd go a step further, and allow them to save this out as well so it can be retrieved for future upload dialogs.
Hopefully this is a starting point for someone. I just don't have the time to begin a new module right now, and the code I have is not really useful for public consumption/usage because of it's specificity.
James