Hello..first of all thanks a lot for such a wonderfull module..this has been lot of help to me ..esp when the profile photos are uploaded...i have one major enhancement to make to the module and would like to get some inputs from you...so currently the module only has permssions to view own imagepicker gallery...but i want to modify it to view other users gallery as well..since i am using this for a multi user evironment...please let me know where do i begin making the changes...thanks for all you help in advance

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hutch commented

The big issue with sharing is ensuring that the 'real' owner can decide who can see what, and ensuring that it scales well and is secure.
One way might be to create a galleries mechanism so that users can group their images and then allow certain galleries to be accessible by others, either globally or only for certain users.
You would need a table 'imagepicker_galleries' to provide each gallery with an id, an owner and labels description etc. Another table to map galleries to images, 'imagepicker_gallery_imgs' and another to map user access to the galleries, 'imagepicker_gallery_users'
Then there would be code for inserting, updating and deleting galleries and their relationships and forms to match plus menu items, quite a lot of work.

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mandmzoom commented

wow...that seems a lot of work...or may be a complete enhancement to the current module...i mean design of 3 new tables and moreover code for them....ok..i also wanted to know..what would be the purpose of the current imagepicker...since it only displays images to me (in my profile)...so how could it be used in a multi user scenario?

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hutch commented
Priority: Critical » Normal

The purpose of imagepicker is to provide users with a simple way to collect pictures to use in their publications, in pages, stories, blogs, forums or whatever they have installed and have been configured to use.

I would like to keep it simple so that non-technical users can use it. The image module is just too complicated for some folks and it uses popups which are often not enabled on the browser and which confuse people not used to the idea of more than one browser window at a time, ie most web users.

If you want to share pictures just publish them.

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mandmzoom commented

thanks for your inputs..

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hutch commented
Assigned: Unassigned » hutch
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

A simplified version of this feature has been added to the dev releases