Module: LatestUpdates

I've just finished up a new module, LatestUpdates. This module will put two links into your sidebar. The first link will lead to a page that will display all the photos/videos in your Gallery in chronological order with the most recently uploaded items on page one and the oldest stuff on the last page. The second link will do the same thing, but limits its self to the current album and its sub-albums.

If this sounds like something you'd want, see the attached file or my github account at http://github.com/rWatcher/gallery3-contrib/tree/master

I've also set up a Wiki page for it here:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery3:Modules:latestupdates

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It should work fine as Gallery 3, Beta 3. If you're using the latest version of Gallery from git then the sidebar won't work (I still need to update the module for the new sidebar code, as soon as I have the time), although you can probably manually access the module at www.domain.com/gallery3/index.php/latestupdates/updates

I haven't grabbed this yet (but I will).
As far as the 'order' the photos are shown in, is that when they were uploaded or when created?

I would like to do this in reverse chronological order by capture date/time, as an option of each album. Would that seem to be a straight forward thing to do? With a little guidance, I'll give it a try.

Martyn T. Griffin

I was looking for the larest updates, but the site at domain.com no longer exists.

Martyn T. Griffin

OOPS, guess I was off in lulu land.
Martyn T. Griffin

Yes if you have that set up in your profile. Also the first post on any thread has a link.

Dave
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Rwatcher - I had an idea for his one. How about extending the engine that grabs latest added. The idea is to grab photos based on Exif. Probably a form where you can check within a set of criteria...

Latest added
Earliest added
Year 2009, 2010
Month jan - dec Drop down with option to select more
Day 1 - 31 Interval option 1 to 15 fx
Aperture 2,8 .. to .. 11 16 Interval option
Shutter 30 sec 1/4000sec Interval option
ISO 80 - 10.000 Interval option

That way tags like 2009 are not needed because you use Exif already there. Beeing able to search for a tag within given criteria could also be cool ex:

2007
May to June
Shutter above 1/1000
ISO 100
Search: Baghdad

all the best
HB

Links in the menubar are now visible, but the images are not loading when a link is clicked. Goes to the page and loads header, but no images and no menu.

This goes for both entire and album link

all the best
HB

bug? pagination not working in latestupdates/updates, showing only last 9 pictures

Was the patch added to latest code

all the best
HB - http://www.image.agentura.dk

Here's an updated version of LatestUpdates. The sidebar will now be displayed on all pages, not just albums, photos and videos although the link for updates to the current album will be hidden for all other types of pages. These changes have also been pushed to my github account.

Works fine

Thanks for your brilliant modules

all the best
HB - http://www.image.agentura.dk

Maybe displayed in a sortable table including all tags

Initial view alphabetic and displayed with heavier font depending on tags

Sortable by alphabet also reverse order
date added reverse order
number of tags (weight) also reverse order (displayed in numbers)

Maybe even searcability as in your calenderview

all the best
HB - http://www.image.agentura.dk

It might have been counting albums or something, I'm not sure. It's fixed now though

Not a tag cloud, the cloud shows fine in blocks

a table where each row includes cells such as:
Tag - no of images tag'ed by this (display as number 2, 45, 702 etc) - date for first tag creation - created by...

The table can be sorted by column:
col 1 alphabetic also in reverse order
col 2 higher or lower order
col 3 sort by date also reverse order
col 4 alphabetic aqlso in reverse order

all the best
HB - http://www.image.agentura.dk

Great! Thanks

Since I installed "latestupdates" the admin-menue seems to react a bit reluctant. It mostly happens if the cache is empty, i.e. after the first login. I often have to reload a page to have it displayed properly, as if the CSS Files are not being loaded?!

Of course, it might have another reason but maybe somebody else has noticed the same?

I haven't noticed anything like that on my server. This module doesn't interact with the admin menu at all, and doesn't have any CSS files of its own, so I'm not sure how it could cause an issue like this.

To Install --
Copy latestupdates to your modules folder.
Log in as an admin and activate the module on the Admin->Modules screen.
Select Appearance->Manage Sidebar and position the module where you want it.

Did you do all three steps? Also, make sure you're using RC1 as it won't work properly with Beta 3 and older.

This text should appear in your sidebar:

LATEST UPDATES
Entire Gallery
This Album

and yes it should appear in manage sidebar

all the best
HB - http://www.image.agentura.dk

You should see an option for Latest Updates on the sidebar screen:
[img]http://gallery.menalto.com/files/managesidebar.jpg[/img]
And then once everything is activated, you should see two links under Latest Updates on your sidebar when viewing an album or photo (and just one link when on a dynamic page):
[img]http://gallery.menalto.com/files/latestupdatessidebar.jpg[/img]
It doesn't put an image or anything in the sidebar, just the two links.

That's weird. It's definitely installed:
http://www.allpar.com/gallery3/index.php/latestupdates/updates

Is it possible that some of the files didn't upload properly? The sidebar is controlled by the following files:
modules\latestupdates\views\latestupdates_block.html.php
modules\latestupdates\helpers\latestupdates_block.php

It's always the simple stuff that causes problems

Some ideas (sorted according to their priorities):
(1) Adding the username of the uploader beside the new item.
(2) Displaying the new items page as a list rather than thumbnails, similar to Facebook way.
(3) Finally, adding the ability to add the updates page as link in the main menu-bar. Maybe beside the Home link (However, this could be implemented using another 3rd party module.)

Those simple modifications would make Gallery so suitable for social network site. And would make the experience of following Gallery updates far more better and more exciting process.

I am new to gallery, but I am experienced with LAMP and drupal, etc...

I am having problems getting this module to work with gallery3 final. I have a fresh install, and the index.php/latestupdates/updates page is throwing an error...

  ErrorException [ Strict Mode Error ]:   Creating default object from empty value

   1. MODPATH/latestupdates/controllers/latestupdates.php[ 128 ] 

Line 128 is:

$view->next_page_link = url::site("latestupdates/updates?page={$next_page}"); 

Platform information:

    *  Operating system: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE
    * Apache: Apache/2.2.16 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.16 OpenSSL/0.9.8n DAV/2 PHP/5.3.3 with Suhosin-Patch
    * PHP: 5.3.3
    * MySQL: 5.5.5-m3
    * Server load: Unavailable
    * Graphics toolkit: imagemagick

Gallery stats

    * Version: 3.0 (Santa Fe)
    * Albums: 78
    * Photos: 2202

Any suggestions what I am doing wrong?

I've been using this module for awhile now, and it has become integral to the kind of site I'm doing. It works great, and thanks so much for it.

One detail that it's missing, and that I'm not sure how to handle myself, is that when viewing an image reached via the latest updates, the next/prev buttons don't stay within the latest updates list, they point to the next image in whatever album the current image is in. I noticed this has been overcome in the tag albums module, and it's got me wondering if something similar could be done here.

Oh wow, did you ever. Awesome work, thanks so much! I particularly like that it sorts them properly without changing the urls, so there aren't two urls for each photo. You might consider trying to work that into Tag Albums, just as a refinement of it. Tag Albums is another great module, but it would be better SEO-wise to only have one url per page/photo.

In any case, I'm blown away by your contributions here. Keep up the good work, and thanks again.