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Picasa Module: Looking for next release ideas/suggestions

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cyberswat - April 13, 2007 - 20:34

Not sure if this is the appropriate location for this type of request, but I am looking for feedback on features to focus on for the next release of the Picasa Module. At present it is a straight forward series of calls to retrieve data from Google's Picasaweb and display it as web albums. The functionality is limited and I think there is vast room for improvement. I would like to see full support for multiple users and better integration with Drupal's node system as well as the ability to embed the images into content.

Some of the ideas and suggestions that have been generated so far can be viewed at http://drupal.org/project/issues/picasa ... I would appreciate your feedback and thoughts on the direction this module should take. I would like to get one more release for Drupal 5 complete before I begin porting it to 6.

Best Regards

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Picasa random block and picasa browser/slideshow

dag- - March 23, 2008 - 00:14

I would like to request a Picasa random block feature, where one could choose the number of pictures shown in the block, and the image sizes.

Also a picasa browser and slideshow would be nice, so that people stay on the Drupal site, instead of moving off to the webalbums on Google.

Also, having both a Drupal 5 and Drupal 6 maintained module would be useful for at least 6 months or longer.

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Slide Show

alleyoopster - April 19, 2008 - 17:06

I currently use this module on CMS Made Simple and I like it a lot. Below are the current options available to me. On the whole it works really well, but there are 2 things I would like to see.

  1. A choice of slideshows. The current one I have seen works, but I have found some users a little confused by the navigation as it uses hover over to display prev and next
  2. A working lang option that displays navigation options in the correct language. My site is in french and with fr_FR set the options are still in English

This is all I can thing of for the time being. Any idea how long this will be for 6.2. Is there a dev version available?

Current Options Available in CMS Made Simple:

  • * (optional) albumthumbsize="200" - The size of the album thumbnail requested. Google only allows particular values for this. See imagethumbsize entry or http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.htmlfor this table.
  • * (optional) imagethumbsize="64" - The size of the image requested. Google only allows particular values for this. See below or http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.html for this table.
  • * (optional) imagesize="512" - The size of the image requested. Google only allows particular values for this. See imagethumbsize entry or http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.html for this table.
  • * (optional) include="" - List of masks to include, delimited by semicolons. This is a simple string compare, if the entire string is anywhere in the Album name, it will be included. Both the include and exclude can be used at the same time. Exclude will overrride includes. For example, if the value for include is "doo;dah;" only albums with doo and dah in them will be displayed
  • * (optional) exclude="" - List of masks to exclude, delimited by semicolons. This is a simple string compare, if the entire string is anywhere in the Album name, it will be excluded. Both the include and exclude can be used at the same time. Exclude will overrride includes. For example, if the value for exclude is "doo;dah;" All albums with doo and dah appearing in them will not be shown
  • * (optional) album="" - The name of the album you would like to see. This name is what Picasa uses to reference an album which is what you named the album with spaces and special characters stripped out. If an album name dosent work, pull up that album in picasa web albums and look at the command line. For example, my album called "MG-4" url looks like this: "http://picasaweb.google.com/rorik.melberg/MG4". The hyphen is stripped out, so if I want to show only this album, the album property should be set to "MG4".
  • * (optional) user="" - Required. The google user name of the person who has the albums to be displayed.
  • * (optional) lang="en_US" - Parameter is used to specify what language to use for display on the frontend. Not all modules support or need this.
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Import from Picasa client

whereisian - May 12, 2008 - 15:52

I don't know if this is within the scope of this module (having just discovered it), but I would like a way to import from my Picasa client, not from the web service. Gallery2 has this functionality and I use it a lot.

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