Define a gallery that photos are put in

well, I played with many galleries but ultimately I just found using something similar to views gallery (module) which is just a combination of a gallery and image with some nice views.. I think it gives you the ultimate flexibility.

May I make a suggestion:

With the ability of cck node reference, when I upload images from my image content type, I select the gallery as a node reference, hence telling the image to be associated with this gallery, So ideally it would be nice to select what content type this image should be associated with and what gallery by the node reference..

Im not sure how to do that on my end, I was thinking of finding the code you had where you create the image, changing that to nodesave() for my image content type, with a default gallery value hardcoded. I think this would allow me to save the image to my image type, define a gallery I want it to go in "Default" , "Status Gallery" and then when clicking on the actual image from the FB status it loads the node instead of just loading the image.

also be nice to have a image cache preset you could set for both a link image and a photo image..??

ST

Where are you saving the images to so far?

Could I go in and where the image save code is change it to nodsave with the current uid and in nodesave I'll hardcore the gallery node id..

I haven't looked at the code yet but have some time this week to.

So over lunch im finally getting a chance to look into this .. here is what I have so far in the time I have had..

I added Gallery settings to the admin section

   /// get a list of nodes and display them in a drop down
  $list = array_map('check_plain', node_get_types('names'));
  $form['gallery']['associated_node'] = array(
	'#type' => 'select',
	'#title' => t('Associated Image Node'),
	'#options' => $list,
	'#default_value' => $prev_settings['associated_node'],
	'#description' => t('Select which node content type you want to associate an image with.'),
  );

  $form['gallery']['gallery_name'] = array(
    '#type' => 'textfield',
    '#title' => t('Default Gallery name'),
    '#default_value' => $prev_settings['gallery_name'],
    '#size' => 15,
    '#maxlength' => 10,
    '#description' => t('The default gallery ID to save Status images to.. Requires a Gallery Content type check Views gallery Module'),
  );

and also added in fbsmp_photo_fbsmp_admin_settings_form_submit

  $settings['associated_node'] = $form_values['associated_node'];
  $settings['gallery_name'] = $form_values['gallery_name'];

next looking at your fsmp table, I was thinking of adding node id, and default gallery node id.. NOTE people would need to set up a gallery and image content type, very easy to do, and have the images node reference the galleries, plenty of tutorials and even views gallery module makes this easy to set up.

the idea now is to pass in the content type that the images should be associated with , this is in the pull down of gallery settings.. in my case "image" , then input the gallery field id they want (prob should make this nicer) I know I have a default status gallery with id "5"

what im looking at now is the file.inc which to be honest I never dealt with to much and looking for a good place to add code that would do the following:

Once the image saves, use node_save http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_save/6 to create a new node in drupal with

content type = 'image'
uid = user id
gallery id = '5'

the rest can be auto filled in or the description could be the status update.

so something like this

			$fb_image_node = new stdClass();
			$fb_image_node->body = '';
			$fb_image_node->type = 'image';   // Your specified content type
			$fb_image_node->created = $time;
			$fb_image_node->changed = $time;
			$fb_image_node->status = 1;
			$fb_image_node->promote = 0;
			$fb_image_node->sticky = 0;
			$fb_image_node->format = 1;       // Filtered HTML
			$fb_image_node->uid = $user->uid; // UID of content owner
			$fb_image_node->field_fb_uid[0]['value'] = $fb_uid;
			$fb_image_node->field_gallery_nid[0]['value'] = $gallery_nid; // the gallery you want all images to be associated with for the user
            $fb_image_node->field_image_fid[0]['value'] = $fib;  // associated fib for which file was saved in the files table
            // of course you could add in more fields, title, description 

			node_save($fb_image_node);

of course im not sure if this is the best way to build a node, but it would then associate the FB image that was added by the user, to content type = image , with gallery id 5, and be an actual node that users could view, and do other things with if image content type had like comments, ratings etc..

thoughts on where to help me with this part?

ST

Yea the idea is to really add additional functionality to micropublisher , to allow admins to select an image content type, and a default gallery that the images can be associated with.

From looking at the code i only see that the fib is being stored and isnt associated with a real node, ideally from what I understand how drupal works, when uploading an image, a fib is returned, then the node is saved with the rest of the data and the fib..

Ok, hacking around, I have it sort of working, need to address a few things, and also make sure the node is deleted when you remove the image.

hold off, i need to spend still some cycles on it and its still a bit hacky, but I should have something soon

Ok, ill work on it this weekend, its working for the most part except for the views part.. when you view a status with an image, when clicking on it i want to go to the node..

Ill see about putting it into a separate module as well.

thanks

Ok a bit of an update right now.. I have separated this into a new module and have most of the functionality except delete working.

I'm able in the admin to select a image node type (currently node_save function is hardcoded to my image cck files : how do I fix this).

When node save is triggered in fbsmp_node_fbsmp_save function...

A new drupal node is created, with some default settings, uid who created the node, the content type you wanted to save it with, and some extra fields that im going to remove when I release the module.

I did have to add an extra row to fbsmp called nid, this is the new node thats its associated with in drupal, not doing this would cause a lot of head aches on how to the sid in fbsmp was associated with what node.. (alternative solution?)

Lastly I implemented the theme to load up the node when the image is clicked on, how ever I need to revert to the old method of just displaying the images if users had this system in place already before using this module (suggestions) ?

and lastly what I'm stuck on is the delete function, since $status doesnt pass along the nid from the fbsmp table Ill need to probably grab the sid from $status->sid, query the db with the sid to get the nid , then do node delete.. at least thats what im thinking.

the does isnt cleaned up but here is the main module part , which ill work on more, suggestions, optimazations are welcome.

<?php
// ; $Id$ - Facebook-style Micropublisher Image node - Gateway69

/**
 * Implementation of hook_form_alter().
 *
 * The function is named modulename_form_alter.
 */
function fbsmp_node_form_alter(&$form, $form_state, $form_id) {
  // Add Gallery settings to Admin settings for photo
  if ($form_id == 'fbsmp_admin_plugin_form') {	  
	  
	  $prev_settings = fbsmp_load_plugin_settings('photo');  
	  // debug
	  dsm($form);

	   /// get a list of nodes and display them in a drop down
	  $list = array_map('check_plain', node_get_types('names'));
	  
	  $form['general']['associated_node'] = array(
		'#type' => 'select',
		'#title' => t('Associated Image Node'),
		'#options' => $list,
		'#default_value' => $prev_settings['associated_node'],
		'#description' => t('Select which node content type you want to associate an image with.'),
		'#weight' => -1,
	  );
   // is this required ???
   $settings['associated_node'] .= $form_values['associated_node'];  
  }

}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_fbsmp_save().
 *
 * The function is named fbsmp_node_fbsmp_save.
 */
function fbsmp_node_fbsmp_save($status){

  if ($status->attachment->type == 'photo') {
   	
	  // grab the settings from the photo plug, parse out what the user set for gallery and node to save as
	  $gallery_settings = fbsmp_load_plugin_settings('photo');
	  $gallery = $gallery_settings['gallery_name'];
	  $node_type = $gallery_settings['associated_node'];
	  $file_id = $status->attachment->data['fid'];
	  $uid = $status->uid;
	  
	  // build a new object to save to the node thats related to your image.
	  $file_new = new stdClass();
	  $file_new ->body = '';	  
	  $file_new ->type = $node_type;   // Your specified content type
	  $file_new ->created = $time;
	  $file_new ->changed = $time;
	  $file_new ->status = 1;
	  $file_new ->promote = 0;
	  $file_new ->sticky = 0;
	  $file_new ->format = 1;       // Filtered HTML
	  $file_new ->uid = $uid; // UID of content owner
	  $file_new ->field_image[0]['list'] = 1;  // is this required? 
	  $file_new ->field_image[0]['fid'] = $file_id;  // associated fib for which file was saved in the files table
	  // of course you could add in more fields, title, description 
	  
	  node_save($file_new);	
	    
	  $nid = $file_new->nid;
	  $sid = $status->sid;

	  // Save the node id created by node save to the fbsmp table
	  // Could be a better way to do this, but for now required additional field nid in table fbsmp
	  fbsmp_node_nid_save($nid,$sid);
	  
  }
 
}

/**
 * Implementation node saving to fbsmp table
 *
 * The function is named fbsmp_node_nid_save.
 */
function fbsmp_node_nid_save($nid,$sid){

 // a cleaner way?
 //drupal_write_record('fbsmp', $nid,'nid');
 $result = db_query("UPDATE fbsmp SET nid = $nid WHERE sid = $sid");
}

function fbsmp_node_nid_get($sid){
	
  $result = db_query("SELECT nid FROM {fbsmp} WHERE sid = %d", $sid);
  
  $records = array();
  while ($record = db_fetch_object($result)) {
	$records[] = $record;
  }
  
  $node_id = $records[0]->nid;
  return $node_id;
	
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_fbsmp_delete().
 *
 * The function is named fbsmp_node_fbsmp_delete.
 */
function fbsmp_node_fbsmp_delete($status){
  
  if ($status->attachment->type == 'photo') {	
  // get node id somehow ??
  
  }
	
}

/**
 * Implementation of hook_fbsmp_render_attachment_alter().
 *
 * The function is named fbsmp_node_fbsmp_render_attachment_alter.
 */

function fbsmp_node_fbsmp_render_attachment_alter(&$themed_attachment, $attachment) {
  if ($attachment->type == 'photo') {
	  
	  $sid = $attachment->sid;
      $node_id = fbsmp_node_nid_get($sid);
	  
	  // safe guard if previous attachments where not used prior to this system
	  if($node_id == 0) {
	  
	  // need to fix this, not sure how to display the proper link to the image	  
	  return '<span class="fbss_attachment" id="steve">'. $themed_attachment . '</span>';
	  
	  } else {
     //encapsulate the $themed_attachment inside the link to node here.
    $themed_attachment = l($themed_attachment, 'node/'.$node_id.'', array('html' => TRUE));
	  }
  }
}

Ok, im almost done, just a few more things to figure out, (sorry new to module dev, but long time php guy)

1. I moved fbsmp_node into its own table, with .install file
2. Updated the functions to reference this table
3. fixed the delete function.

So todo, and not sure how to handle this since its druplish type stuff ..

In my hook form alter, im adding a field to your admin area where the user can select which one of their nodes is set up for image type

I cant seem to have the settings save along with yours, you can see mine is listed at the top
http://grab.by/6OGf if i save that page, it doesnt get saved with your settings I tried to add this to the form alter function

$settings['associated_node'] .= $form_values['associated_node']; 

which is the setting for what node the admin checked..

thoughts?

Once I can get that done, I can clean up the code for a alpha release.. note this only saves to the image node, you cannot define a gallery to put them in yet (i have my example hardcoded)

Also how can i adjust the weight of my form alter in yours.. to move it down under image cache settings

questions to anyone:

right now you select your image node in admin, by doing this you will associated fbsmp photos to that node, clicking on the image brings you to that node..

How would you like to associate this to a gallery?

my setup is
gallery content type
image content type
----> gallery list
type = node reference gallery

so when adding photos i get a drop down list of galleries to put them in.

with fbsmp, this is a quick photo status post.. do we allow admins to define a gallery name to use "status gallery" .. still thinking that though..

also I think in the photo widget we should add a title, so you can add a title to your image which would then get stored to the node

I can add the ability for your comment to be added to the image node.. The question is should this be the title, or the description... In facebook they name it a caption that goes along with your photo and you really dont have a choice as to what gallery it goes in by default, only after you edit that image can you potentially move it.

for my purposes when a user signs up to my site by default a mobile photo gallery, and default gallery is created. When users upload via mobile phone it goes into mobile gallery.

If you also suggest using taxonomy adding tags that could be done, but the prob is that each person will need to add or enable taxonmoy on their image node... I cannot control what the user does as far as what he does to make his image node, ideally i hope they have title, description, image, at the very minimum.

For the first alpha release Ill just allow the admin to select what image node is to be used. When someone posts an image via fbsmp create that image node and associate it with that in the view.

I need to think about other things on how to proceed and prob good to move it to its own section very soon.

Pribeh, Ill consider doing it this way, I need to solve my 2 issues first, and this week is quite busy here for me :(

thanks everyone, Ill look at this over the weekend, I need to solve how do i find what field is the fid for the image content type the user creates..

When an admin creates an image content type I have no control over what they will name the image field, for example mine cck type is

Photo --- field_images -- type file -- widget imagefield..

the part that I need to figure out is what the admin names the field, because im sure everyone will create a node with a differnt field.. aka.. field_my_photos..

the reason I need to find this field is when I do a node_save i need to make sure im sending the returned fid to the right field for the node.. right now in my code its hardcoded to use mine...

drupal provides a content_types($node_type); to a huge array of all the fields, values of a content type.. in my case 'photo' , I need to search though the array, to find module => filefield or module=> imagefield then find out the actual field name thats used, unless their is a better way.

thoughts?

publicmind: ill work on separating the settings, im assuming I should create a new admin setting widget that can be used for photos, videos etc?

I also had a thought to parse hash tags, and if in the admin taxonomy was enabled for this node, put the hash tags in the taxonomy so people can do all sorts of things with views and tags.. ?

@publicmind

Thanks...

I actually have a separate module, and its own admin page.. everything is working, ill look into feedAPI next.

Ill also change the name..

question, do u want it to have a completely own admin section, or a tab in your area.. I have it in its own page now..

I should have this wrapped up as a alpha this weekend, its been a super busy week :(

So I think im gonna wrap up an alpha... The first release will just let you from the admin select the node that has your imagefield, then you need to enter the field name that is related to your image.. aka from your cck content type example "field_my_photos"

once saved, when you add an image via the FBsmp status page, you can click on the image which then goes to your image node, if you delete your status your node is also deleted.

other features will come in time.

yep.. let me clean up some of the code, I haven't renamed it yet..

attached is a rar of the module name is currently fbsmp_node since it attaches an image from fbsmp to a node.. but the name can be changed I really dont care.

First create a content type with just a title, and cck imagefield (note the name of your imagefield you create in the cck) for mine i just did file_my_image

save your content type..

enable the plugin, go to the admin section, from the pull down select your content type you just created and in the text box enter your field name thats your imagefield for the cck field. (I want to figure out how if you select a node , to list the fields in a check box format or find and display to the user the one imagefield) no idea how to do this.

once your settings are saved..

when you do a update with a pic, after its uploading, if u click on the pic it should go to the node..

any feedback?

Yea, ideally you could expand this to work with videos as well, in fact anything that generates some sort of content could be turned into a node, I could use a bit of help though making it idiot proof and for my own purposes im going to be adding in linking to a gallery, and other cck types i need. I might add taxonomy to it as well , aka the admin can set default taxonomy terms that then can be used in views or other ways

Thanks for the feedback, I do have to say this is my first attempt at a full blown public module to release to people and im still learning the in's/outs from the drupal api, so thanks again for the comments.

The hard coded value for gallery was just my tests, I haven't gotten to linking anything to a gallery the first steps where to just get it to link to the image node and work from their.

Unfortunaly with Drupal their are many ways to make a image gallery I followed this method http://www.lullabot.com/articles/photo-galleries-views-attach a year or so ago, which turned into a module called views_gallery which then is evolving into a more proper module but requires a lot of additional modules I dont need personally.

At the very basic level you an can easily create 2 content types

* Gallery Content type
** Title
** Description

* Image Content Type
** Gallery (node reference)
** Image (image file field)

this is the basics, of course then you need to create views to generate a gallery view, image view etc... which isnt to hard , you can go as crazy as you want , for those that dont know how views gallery is a good solution, I prefer the first version that doesn't require Features module.

For me every time a user creates a new account in drupal, I have a rule that generates a "Status Gallery" for them linked to their NID. I can see in the future that the admin could define a default gallery name that the images go into, or giving more flexibly using taxonomy to allow the admins to use those terms to build nice custom views or themes.

Also galleries offer other issues, right now the way things are set up, its based upon global galleries, so a user creates a gallery, and anyone can add to it, I have created custom filters to only show a gallery that the user has created and only allow them to add to this. (sorry getting side tracked)

So as for the best solution to tie this to a gallery im not sure, seems like taxonomy might be a way and im up for suggestions. The main idea of course is just to get the functionality to link status items to nodes that are defined, which is the first piece of the puzzle. So you can see their are a lot of ways to make a gallery in drupal, which goes beyond the scope of this plugin, trying to figure out a nice solution is a bit harder.

@pribeh

Yea, I could make an option in the admin that you could enable status updates to be node title names

@all - I have very limited time but will tackle some of these changes above this week but most likely the weekend

Sorry guys, I have been super crazy busy, I started to look at this again tonight and AHAH, however I'm not quite getting it and need to do a few test examples, Im curious if anyone wants to help me finish this and add in the ability save video nodes as well.. I would like to put this to rest I just haven't had any time :(

With FBSMP you get what was missing in the facebook status which allows you to add image, video, link or other to a post. What was initially missing was that when you posted a photo that it wasn't linked to an actual node in drupal, it was more or less just showing you an image on the server.

For what I wanted to do at the first layer is just in the admin layer select my image content type with image field cck , and then when posting via the smp assign it to an actual node, now that its a node well you can do what you want with it, custom views, taxonomy, sorting etc..

thats the first step.. the gallery part I think is up to the user since I use a very of views gallery (not their latest version) and I feel comfortable enough with using this light weight one than others.. but the prob is others might use other methods.. so thats sort the state.. I need to dig into some of the suggestions above to make this a full releasable module but have lack of time and still cant wrap my head around AHAH

Pribeh,

It wouldn't be to hard to hack in the name for the title.. I unfortunally have been swamped here at work we have a huge deadline before the xmas holiday for this video game we are working on. I have a nice holiday break where I plan on doing some work on my sites and a bit on this module.

I loooked more into AHAH, well not as much as I had planned still not clear how it works, ill have to create a test module and play with it a bit.

Pribech, if you dont mind how are you planning on using this, also are you styling your status updates like FB.. my idea for one of my sites is to have a similar look/feel as the facebook status feed with images, videos and links.. I guess just need some good styling.

@pribeh, finally an example of using the FB status module and seeing some good css around it.. is this something you coded?

anyhow I know off topic..

It would be nice if fb smp when adding in an image, had an *optional* title field, I could then pull that and put that into the node..
Otherwise your limited to parsing some text inside the status update..

file name should be easy to do.. i can look at this during lunch.

would you mind sharing your aka facebook style stuff? I'm wanting to do something similar on one of m social sites im building.?

dont go sharing the code :) j/k

please insert $20 ..

ill make some effort to work on the module next weekend, but yea please share, help and maybe we can all put one together

just to iterate this version that I did for pribeh takes the name of the image file and makes it the title for the photo node.