Can Gallery Serve Batch Images in a Web Page format? [Business Case]
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bianconeri4ever
Joined: 2009-02-01
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Posted: Sun, 2009-02-01 00:50
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Hello there. I am interested in using Gallery in a business environment, however the main functionality that am interested in isn't there (I think) but thought since it's open source I can develop it. Basically I want to use Gallery for images of our products (supermarket). These images are in PSD/AI format and will be on a remote server at our creative agency. I want to install Gallery over at the creative agency on the server so they can fully manage it uploading new images and all. However I want Gallery to serve me images in big batches. Meaning, I want to have a field, where I can paste up to 100-150# SKU numbers (unique numbers for each product or image), and Gallery serves me all these images in a webpage. Nothing more nothing less! Of course, since the images are PSD/AI format, Gallery shouldn't serve them as such (will require huge bandwidth). So it should just serve 100X100 jpegs or something. Ideally, I would also like extra options like the ability of choosing the layout, i.e number of columns and/or rows I want the served webpage to be. And maybe the ability to add headers and footers for printing. Am assuming that I can give each image an SKU number using tags, but that could be error prone. Could one add a functionality of mutually exclusive tags? If one tag is in the DB then Gallery would refuse to tag it until the other one is changed? Sorry about the gazillion questions. I am just new to Gallery |
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At this stage you probably want to be looking towards the forthcoming release of Gallery3 - which has a RESTful interface and should be much easier to get to grips with (as well as smaller) that Gallery2.
Essentially since you're planning to do the development yourself, this should all be possible with G2 as well, though.
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Thanks alecymers for your quick reply.
Well am not really a developer. Am just an Open Source believer. And I want to hire someone to do it. But I really just wanted to know the extent of the work needed. Is it just 50 lines of php coding? Or its more complex because of the fact that the original images are PSD/Ai?
Are there any special considerations that I should take? Would anybody over here consider coding it for me?
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Well, with G2, budget for hours/weeks/months of pain and heartache, but it's at least achievable. I don't know if there's an open-source way of converting a PSD or AI (I'm assuming you mean Adobe Illustrator / photoshop) format file to jpg - to be honest I didn't pay attention to that bit. That might be a show-stopper, seeing as they're proprietary formats.
As for hiring someone, well, try the marketplace section of this forum. And no, it's not 50 lines, it's a *BIG* job, probably.