Extra fields - Description, location, whatever you like

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This patch is no longer availble. The changes have been rolled into 1.3.4, and are now called Custom Fields. This thread is now locked. Please start a thread in a suitable forum for any discussion on Custom Fields.
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I've written a hack that enables you to define any fields you like to be attached to images.

You can define default fields that will be available in every new album, and this list can then be individually tailored on an album by album basis or based on nested albums.

The fields are searchable.

The fields can be edited for each image in the edit_captions window, and each one that is defined will be displayed under the caption and before the comments on the photo page.

Anyone interested in this?

http://www.mcgalliard.org/gallery/album01

Oh bless you sweet, sweet heart!!! :lol: I have been trying to get this to work myself! I am very interested in this.

[edited 15 June, 03]
Patch is no longer available. Please upgrade to 1.3.4 to use this feature, now called Custom Fields
Here it is!

To install, get the file <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_new.zip" TARGET="_blank">extra_fields_new.zip</A><!-- BBCode End --> and unzip it. Copy extra_fields.php to your gallery directory, then change to your gallery directory, user configure.(sh|bat) to make sure you can write to the setup directory, and apply the patch. Eg:
sh configure.sh
patch -p0 < extra_fields_new.patch
sh secure.sh

To use the new fields, go to an album to which you can write, and click on the new option extra fields. In the popup window, type in the number of new fields you want in this album, and click Apply. Then type a unique key name for each of the new fields, and click Apply again. Now, when you pop up the edit caption window for any of the images in that album, you can populate these new fields.

That's the basics. Here's few minor points.

Search will go through every one of these fields, and display the key name,. as well as the text, for matching fields

Extra fields are inheritied in nested albums and can be applied to nested albums. You can use the configuration wizard to set up default extra fields for the gallery.

Any fields with values in them are displayed on the image page If they are undefined, or an empty string, they are not displayed.

The patch was build against RELEASE_1_3_3. It has not been tested against earlier versions. If you have the latest CVS, you will get an error when patching do_command.php. That's because some code has been turned into a function, and moved from do_command.php to util.php. To make the change by hand, leave do_command.php as it is and open util.php in your favourite editor, find this line:
$gallery->album->fields["public_comments"]=$parentAlbum->fields["public_comments"];
and put this underneath
$gallery->album->fields["extra_fields"]=$parentAlbum->fields["extra_fields"];

I have made a extra field called title, how could I add this in the <title> tag and not on the page itself, if posible?

Sharp eyed readers will have noticed that there were a couple of problems with above patch. They are to do with the way the way default values are stored. If you've already installed the patch, and are happy with it - leave it as it is. If you do want to update your code, I've put a patch file up at <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_update.patch" TARGET="_blank">extra_fields_update.patch</A><!-- BBCode End -->
This will move you from the patch released as extra_fields.zip and the one released as extra_fields_new.zip. You'll need to re-run the config wizard to put the default values in again.

If you haven't installed thee patch yet, then just grab the new one:<!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_new.zip" TARGET="_blank">extra_fields_new.zip</A><!-- BBCode End -->

<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>
*** captionator.php 3 Jan 2003 13:47:50 -0000 1.1.1.2
--- captionator.php 10 Feb 2003 18:03:19 -0000
***************
*** 67,72 ****
--- 67,76 ----
} else {
$gallery->album->setCaption($i, stripslashes(${"new_captions_" . $i}));
$gallery->album->setKeywords($i, stripslashes(${"new_keywords_" . $i}));
+ foreach ($extra_fields[$i] as $field => $value)
+ {
+ $gallery->album->setExtraField($i, $field, trim(strip_tags($value)));
+ }
}

$i++;
***************
*** 255,260 ****
--- 259,273 ----
<span class="admin">Keywords:</span><br>
<input type=text name="new_keywords_<?php echo $i?>" size=65 value="<?php echo $oldKeywords ?>">

+ <?php
+ foreach ($gallery->album->getExtraFields() as $field)
+ {
+ $value=$gallery->album->getExtraField($i, $field);
+ print "<br><span class="admin">$field:</span><br>";
+ print "<textarea name="extra_fields[$i][$field]" rows=2 cols=60>";
+ print "$value</textarea>";
+ }
+ ?>
<?php
}
?>

</TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

Ok... I screwed up myseld :smile:

I didn't kow what a hell to do with .patch file so I uploaded those two files and ran extra_fields.php
I know, I'm an idiot, I know it now...
But well, I can't login anymore, it doesn't give me error, it just wont go in.
Any ideas? What file / files should be recovered from my back up?

Well, if you are running a pure 1.3.3 install, you could just copy the files over. The complete set of changed files is at <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_files.zip" TARGET="_blank">extra_fields_files.zip</A><!-- BBCode End -->

If you need to run patch from your windows machine, you can get it (along with 100+ other programs) at <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/" TARGET="_blank">http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/</A><!-- BBCode End -->

Oops! Permissions!

I forgot to mention you need to run
sh configure.sh
before applying either patch.

joan

Thank you for the code. I am running 1.3.4 b11 and everything is working great. I had to manually place the code that your patch puts into do_command.php into util.php. I have also placed the additional code into captionator.php and it works great.

Thank you,

Paul James

It's based on 1.3.3. You probably should think about upgrading to 1.3.3, read <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=News&amp;file=article&amp;sid=65&amp;mode=thread&amp;order=0&amp;thold=0" TARGET="_blank">this</A><!-- BBCode End --> . If you do that, you can then just copy the files in <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_files.zip" TARGET="_blank">extra_fields_files.zip</A><!-- BBCode End -->

Otherwise, the best idea would be to copy all your files to your local machine (windows, right?), get patch.exe from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/, apply the patch
patch -i extra_fields_new.patch -p0
then copy the files back to your server. You'll need to test it, as it hasn't been tested aainst 1.3.2

If you must do it by hand, "+" means "add this line", "-" means "delete this line" and "!" means "change this line"

Sorry about that - it was a bit of a quick knockup, so I never tested it with no extra fields defined.

all you need to do is wrap an if clause around the for loop:
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> if ($extra_fields)
{
foreach ($extra_fields[$i] as $field => $value)
{
$gallery->album->setExtraField($i, $field, trim(strip_tags($value)));
}
} </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

I've made an extra tweak to this: added two new features.

<LI>Special fields<LI>Paragraphs in field display<LI>The captionator fix described above

The special fields are Title, Upload Date and Capture Date. If Title is defined, then it will be displayed in the page title, as well as under the photo. If the date fields are defined, the values already stored with each photo will displayed.

When displaying text fields, every embedded "n" will be replaced with a <p>, so the paragraph structure will be retained.

To patch from 1.3.3 to this version, get the file <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_new_2.zip" TARGET="_blank">http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_new_2.zip</A><!-- BBCode End --> and apply the patch. If you've already installed the extra_fields_new.zip version, you can patch it with <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_update_2.patch" TARGET="_blank">extra_fields_update_2.patch</A><!-- BBCode End -->. If you want all changed files, then get <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.mcgalliard.org/content/gallery/extra_fields_files_2.zip" TARGET="_blank">extra_fields_files_2.zip</A><!-- BBCode End -->.

Phew!

joan[/]

Looks like maybe all the files from the zip haven't been updated in your directory. Open util.php. restoreQuotes should be the last function in it. If it's not, you need to get the version from extra_fields_files_2.zip, and copy it into the directory.

Hi Joan, I just got around to trying this one out. Your add_photo.php has taken out a bunch of the features I liked in the original version. I tried to go through and add the different pieces of code to add_photos.php and save_photos.php, but I got some errors. I even tried adding the extra stuff from both files into your customized file, but I didn't get it right either. If you get a chance, could you add to the patch file the necessary changes that need to be made to add_photos.php and save_photos.php? Or just tell me here if you don't feel like patching it...

I don't really understand what you are trying to do. I've only removed the things that make no sense in this context. Say if you had 3 extra fields. Then if you could set each field on multiple uploads, you'd have 25 text areas to fill in. This seemed impractical, so I didn't allow multiple files. Similary, a zip file or a URL could contain any number of images - how would you allow the user to input all the values required, and match them up with the right images?

I haven't been near gallery remote, so that's not included eiterh. Any volunteers?

So I decided to only allow the user to set the extra fields on upload if s/he was uploading a single file. If s/he was uploading multiple files, s/he'd have to populate the extra fields later, using "edit caption".

If you can describe - from a user viewpoint - what you want to achieve, I see if I can help you.

each one depending on what i am doing when changing the extra feild names it pops up in the extra_feilds.php with
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/htdocs/latexnballoons/www/members/gallery/extra_fields.php on line 48

when going to add captions is shows up in the captionator.php with
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/htdocs/latexnballoons/www/members/gallery/captionator.php on line 43

I was hoping that maybe the two errors may be some how linked by one of the class files or something.

Joan sounds great but whare do i put it? :grin:

Hi!

A nice feature would be a field named 'Camera', which reads the EXIF data and displays the camera model. If there's no EXIF data available one should be able to enter the camera model manually.

:grin: Mathias

I must be simple....having problems here.

I have shell access. I've upload the 2 files to to the gallery directory and have run sh configure.sh.

Where is patch? Is it a Nuke thing or something? How do i install/run the patch?

Thanks in advance.

Chris

Sorry Joan, just looked at my last post and it wasn't very clear.

When i said it doesnt look like i've got the patch i meant the patch program (i presume).
When entering patch -0 < extra_fields_release_candidate_1_3_3.patch i get the following..

bash: patch: command not found

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

Chris

Amberlight, Fingerly,

Instructions on patching found in this thread: <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&amp;name=phpBB_14&amp;file=index&amp;action=viewtopic&amp;topic=4936&amp;2" TARGET="_blank">patch question</A><!-- BBCode End -->
That's probably the right place to ask further questions on patching - so others can find them.

Text and link colour: copy css/standalone_style.css.default to css/standalone_style.css. Link colours should be obvious, and text is in the TD, P section.

Thanks for the great mod Joan. I'm not to familar with the Gallery database scheme, so I was wondering if you could answer a quick question for me. Can this same method be applied to albums (with the appropriate changes of course)?

Thanks again!

Not sure what you're doing, but if you see this
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>
***************
*** 67,72 ****
--- 67,79 ----
} else {
$gallery->album->setCaption($i, stripslashes(${"new_captions_" . $i}));
$gallery->album->setKeywords($i, stripslashes(${"new_keywords_" . $i}));
+ if ($extra_fields)
+ {
+ foreach ($extra_fields[$i] as $field => $value)
+ {
+ $gallery->album->setExtraField($i, $field, trim(strip_tags($value)));
+ }
+ }
}

$i++;
</TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

then you need to find this line:
$gallery->album->setKeywords($i, stripslashes(${"new_keywords_" . $i}));
and add these lines after it:
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>
if ($extra_fields)
{
foreach ($extra_fields[$i] as $field => $value)
{
$gallery->album->setExtraField($i, $field, trim(strip_tags($value)));
}
}
</TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

Is that what you're doing?

Not sure why you are going to the setup directory: DON'T!

move the patch to your /gallery directory, and run it from there.

One question:

i can only edit the extra fields pic by pic, gong in the edit photo-dropmenu and choose edit caption. how to make it possible to edit them through "[captions]" in that gallery's menu, and edit them all at once?
cheers and GREAT MOD!