soc had the idea to remodel the make a plugin architecture for fast gallery. Basic architecture would be:
- an API providing the basic functionality
- plugins to use different modes of Fast Gallery (no db, images as nodes, exif, ...)

Advantages:
- every user can take what he wants.
- extensible for further plugins

Definitions:
- Plugins would probably just be modules that rely on the Fast Gallery API

I would want to collect some thoughts about this idea. In a next step we would have to define the API and see if there are maybe some drupal components that could be used (like fileAPI???) -> but please not in this post.

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soc commented

Hi raspli,

I was just thinking about what is needed.

The big problem imo are the architectural differences between DB-usage/no DB-usage.
At the moment, the DB needs to be sync'ed after changes and the rescan has to be requested manually.

The no-DB way would use lazy initialization to improve performance. The basic steps would look like that:
a) The admin uploads his pictures. (He does not request any action, synchronization or thumbnailing, nothing is done beside uploading at that point!)
b) A user visits the homepage, wants to see a particular folder.
c) Now the script checks if every picture in the requested folder has a thumbnail, if not it is generated.

So basically the first person visiting a folder generates the thumbnails of that particular folder.

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rapsli commented

generating the thumb when they are needed is already in place.

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soc commented

Ah, thanks, didn't know that was changed already ...

Could you maybe look at #381102: No pictures/folders appear on the Fast gallery page, only the heading?
I hope it's an absolutely stupid mistake on my side, because I can't get the Gallery to run since days ...

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XiaN Vizjereij commented

Very very good :)

Please keep in mind my comments on this post : No temp. queries anymore !

And two remarks for the design

-> Here you can see that with images with different height the layout looks kind of crappy. The textbox should be fixed on the bottom of the "cell" and in a box aboth the image should be centered in horizontal and vertical

-> You should not print folders and then without a break pictures ( like seen here )

It would be nicer to have sth. like

Subfolders

...

Images

...

Maybe it would be a fine nice-to-have to have the ability to change some of the basic css settings via the drupal admin menu.

Btw. if you need betatesters : Count on me :)

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rapsli commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

this version is not supported anymore