Help with GalleryAlbums

jerryh

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Posted: Wed, 2013-02-06 22:12

I will prefix this with "I am new to Gallery2"

I am looking through the code and looking to traverse gallery albums programmatically. in using the application, I noticed the tree displayed at the top.
I've also looked at GalleryAlbumItem class.

Any help is greatly appreciated
 
suprsidr
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Posted: Wed, 2013-02-06 22:33
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looking to traverse gallery albums programmatically

to what end? some type of external display?

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jerryh

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Posted: Wed, 2013-02-06 23:25

No. Looking to traverse them with possibility of adding to them ( like a bulk upload). So if the album doesn't exist, I can add it.

Album 1
Album 11
Photo 100
Album 2
Albumn 21
Photo 200

If I upload a structure on to my server and we get a new Album (Album 3), I want to insert it
 
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Posted: Wed, 2013-02-06 23:37

did you know gallery2 is very mature. we have this functionality already:
http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery2:Modules:archiveupload <- w/ this module you can zip up a whole directory structure and gallery will create new albums out of the the sub-directories.
http://codex.galleryproject.org/Gallery2:Modules:uploadify

No need to reinvent the wheel ;)

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jerryh

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Posted: Wed, 2013-02-06 23:57

thanks. Will it also add the photos? I will take a look
 
jerryh

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Posted: Thu, 2013-02-07 00:02

So if I have activated this module in plugins area, where on the menu will it appear?

 
suprsidr
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Posted: Thu, 2013-02-07 00:07

here was an example I used recently http://testr.suprsidr.com/v/testr/
I uploaded fun.zip that had 3 sub-directories each with a few images.

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suprsidr
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Posted: Thu, 2013-02-07 00:08

when active there will be a new tab in the itemAdd view.
IYou must first configure the path to your unzip binary in admin.

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jerryh

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Posted: Thu, 2013-02-07 00:35

OK. So I activated the module and setup the path to unzip binary.
Didn't see a new tab. There's a tab called "From Web Browser" which was already there.

I tried it and worked nicely.

Will start to look at code - For our application, we will need to update some custom fields when file is loaded.
With aLbums is there any difference to adding custom fields (and values) that with Item?
Yesterday you pointed me to

Quote:
create a CustomfieldOnUploadOption.inc to extend ItemAddOption
it would need to include methods handleRequestAfterAdd, loadTemplate and isAppropriate

Is there a difference for Albums?

 
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Posted: Thu, 2013-02-07 00:44
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Didn't see a new tab

That's right, I was thinking of something else, no tab... it just works.

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Is there a difference for Albums

I don't believe so, I don't really use custom fields.

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jerryh

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Posted: Thu, 2013-02-07 00:50

Ok..

I am going to dig into code. I have some other requirements to do along the way as uploading photos and albums.

thanks.. Great advice...