Hello,

I apologize if what I’m going to ask is obvious but I’m not finding this information and it’s important for my website.

Is it possible to use the favorites module with photo gallery entries? I plan to use EE’s gallery module for my site’s photo galleries and not weblogs as some people do.
If it’s not built in, would it require some complicated hacking?

Thank you!

Unfortunately the Favorites module will not work with Gallery entries. I’m not sure what’s involved with hacking it to work, but I’d imagine it’d be extensive.
This would be a very great idea to have for the Favorites Module, so I’ll add this as a Feature Request

Thanks anyway!

I was hoping the hacking wouldn’t be much more complicated than changing a few queries… I guess the ratings module works the same way, right?

I prefer to use the gallery module because it has auto thumbnailing and built in code to generate the thumbnail tables, and possibly for a couple of other reasons I don’t remember right now, it’s to bad i can’t use some of your scripts with that module.

Correct, the Rating module works the same way.

As an alternative though, if you wish, you can use the Gallery Extended (GX) module for this.

It’s simple, we’ll go the weblog entry route, where each photo is really a weblog entry.... well, actually, it’s not… it’s both. GX is capable of relating photos to weblog entries. We’ve also just released a new feature where you can upload (and partially manage) your photos directly from the Publish/Edit page in the Control Panel

So, you basically fill out a weblog entry, then place in the image (File Browser), then click Publish… done
it handles the photo like it should… thumbnailing, etc

I’ve been thinking about this and the Gallery Ext could be a solution… perhaps I should explain my requirements so that you can give me better advice.

My website is dedicated to sports photography, this means that I may need to upload from 15 to 1500 photos per event, not just me but also other photographers, so sending everything via ftp isn’t always a good options, imagine explaining how it works to a japanese photographer with limited knowledge of english… Besides this each photo has to be related to an event, a photographer, one or more athletes and occasionally other types of grouping. From an EE perspective, the event would be a gallery category, the photographer the author and I would like to handle the athletes with the tags module, anything else would be just a regular custom field. The tags module is quite handy because it let’s me merge some tags(right?), imagine someone submits a photo of a skater called Alexei the transliteration is variable so it could also be spelled Aleksei or Alexey, etc… so I would need to correct this, thus it seems to be a good job for this module.
In order to bypass the batch uploading problem I was considering using the moblog, in which an email could send several photos at once, which would have the same tags and category associated to them, the tags module works with moblog doesn’t it?

If I used the gallery ext module will I be able to use the favorites and ratings module with photos?
Does the gallery ext module duplicate the database entries, ie, one in the weblogs table and another on the gallery table?

Basically the issues I need to sort out are: a way to make batch uploads that’s reasonable for me and my associate photographers while also preserving the auto thumbnailing and table construction features and hopefully without generating duplicate data or a huge number of calls to the same table.

Thank you!

IsabelS - 24 May 2008 08:03 AM

My website is dedicated to sports photography, this means that I may need to upload from 15 to 1500 photos per event, not just me but also other photographers, so sending everything via ftp isn’t always a good options, imagine explaining how it works to a japanese photographer with limited knowledge of english… Besides this each photo has to be related to an event, a photographer, one or more athletes and occasionally other types of grouping. From an EE perspective, the event would be a gallery category, the photographer the author and I would like to handle the athletes with the tags module, anything else would be just a regular custom field. The tags module is quite handy because it let’s me merge some tags(right?), imagine someone submits a photo of a skater called Alexei the transliteration is variable so it could also be spelled Aleksei or Alexey, etc… so I would need to correct this, thus it seems to be a good job for this module.

Correct!

IsabelS - 24 May 2008 08:03 AM

In order to bypass the batch uploading problem I was considering using the moblog, in which an email could send several photos at once, which would have the same tags and category associated to them, the tags module works with moblog doesn’t it?

Unfortunately not. Have you seen/considered using the Gallery Extended SAEF form? Via the front end, you can have members upload photos, more than one at a time. They can be automatically set to “relate” to a weblog entry. One issue there is you still cannot Tag photos via the SAEF.

IsabelS - 24 May 2008 08:03 AM

If I used the gallery ext module will I be able to use the favorites and ratings module with photos?

Unfortunately not.

IsabelS - 24 May 2008 08:03 AM

Does the gallery ext module duplicate the database entries, ie, one in the weblogs table and another on the gallery table?

Nope… it does not create extra tables… all it does is increase the functionality

Unfortunately not. Have you seen/considered using the Gallery Extended SAEF form? Via the front end, you can have members upload photos, more than one at a time. They can be automatically set to “relate” to a weblog entry. One issue there is you still cannot Tag photos via the SAEF.

There are too many photos to upload at once, doing it with forms is a real pain… even with multiple upload fields. What if i use a custom field with the moblog and then harvest the tags manually?

Another questions about tags, if someone types “Michelle Kwan”, this will create two tags “Michelle” and “Kwan”, right? To make it just one tag should it be “Michelle+Kwan”?

Nope… it does not create extra tables… all it does is increase the functionality

Ok. For now it seems that the tags module is the only one that fits what I need. Eventually I’ll pay for some custom coding if necessary, but I’m also interested in seeing EE 2.0 first, I guess I’ll only buy the extremely necessary now.

Thank you!

IsabelS - 26 May 2008 11:23 AM

There are too many photos to upload at once, doing it with forms is a real pain… even with multiple upload fields. What if i use a custom field with the moblog and then harvest the tags manually?

Yes, you could do that… for the Tag Module. I don’t think Moblog would work with GX2 though

IsabelS - 26 May 2008 11:23 AM

Another questions about tags, if someone types “Michelle Kwan”, this will create two tags “Michelle” and “Kwan”, right? To make it just one tag should it be “Michelle+Kwan”?

If you enter in a Tag as Michelle Kwan it will create a tag of Michelle Kwan, unless you have your Tag Seperator (in your Tag Module CP Preferences) set to use spaces. It will then split any words seperated by spaces as individual Tags.