MOd Idea

[inspireme]

Mod/update suggestion :

Each listing would have an "upload your pictures..." button, visitors of the site (could be anyone) can upload a photograph using the form and it appears in an administration panels "picture approval" line.

I want the pictures to be stored on a different database table, like this :

ID | link_id (foreign_id) | picture URL | member name | email | caption

the display side of this needs to be an ajax picture viewer - if more than 3 images are available then clicking an arrow will show the next 3 WITHOUT a page reload.

clearly only useful for niche sites who deal with physical locations - i see quite a lot of these using indexU though - all of my sites do, i see golf, courses, hotels, restaurants etc ...

[Bruceper]

Very interesting and useful. I can think of all sorts of things this could be used for.

This could be used by people who want to share images of almost anything such as cars, people (for a famous quotes site), food (for reqice/restaurant site), movie covers, book covers, software screenshots and so much more.

It would help to make the site interactive which is what people are interested in nowadays.

[Warz]

Hi,

I think this would be nice for my cover site!!

Good idea!

[inspireme]

yeah thats true... it does have a lot of applications. I could code this and release it as a mod, but then it would be nice to hear from indexU developers if this is something they would implement (like a YES/NO answer) so I know if its worth the time to do.

Even when you make a mod, its a struggle to keep it updated with new version releases and its never easy for people to add mods if they are new to it.

That said, i think this could be made as a block so its just a case of uploading all the new files and then adding block code.

Bruce, any chance you could ask if mod ideas on the forum could be requested as new indexU functionality... if the mod isnt going to be included in indexU itself then it could be worked on.

[Bruceper]

They absolutely could be added, I think the issue is that they've never really been offered and Dody wouldn't just take something someone else did and add it to the script.

I'll see if I can get Dody to respond to this one himself.

[FSGDAG]

I would definiately find this mod EXTREMELY useful

Maybe a poll would help too rather than everyone having to respond, unless they have something more to add to the discussion

[inspireme]

I just think that features like this added to the release makes it easier for everyone. If a decision is made that its not useful enough for the general indexU user then its open for someone to make a mod. By the way, the database structure i gave was so that unlimited photos could be uploaded, i realised that it probably isnt clear to most people what i was trying to say when i added that

[linksor.com]

"Suggest category" option should be working as a submit_page form for users. I am using 4 dirs and users are suggesting a lot of different category's and most of them are very usefull.

Such mod shoud give in ACP a possibility to accept or deny such category suggestion.

[inspireme]

Zubby made that category mod already, i suggested it to him

[inspireme]

okay well i havent heard if this is going to be considered for adding to the release version of indexU so I think i will give it a shot. I can do all the uploading, and php/mysql stuff to make this work easy enough and write the block for it to be implemented on each listing - Anybody here good at AJAX? I have played with it but it does confuse me.

I want the first 3 images (ordered by date) to be displayed, with an arrow to show the next three. Anyone know how to make some kind of Ajax image viewer like this?

[inspireme]

im going to use this
http://www.ajaxdaddy.com/demo-ajax-carousel.html

[Bruceper]

Sorry, I don't know ajax that well otherwise I'd give you a hand.

[Antony]

http://www.ajaxrain.com

Look at this ajax site...

[inspireme]

thats a cool site, i haven't seen that before

Okay due to lack of response on weather this will be something added to the next version lets make it, firstly lets make it modular so that it works with any future indexU install.

Also, lets figure out how we want it to work. Here is my idea :

1) Browse button > user uploads image to /userimages/
2) file needs to be renamed to avoid conflicts. Lets use a timestamp a dash and then the link_id so we can identify them if we need to
3) take users email or member name and caption
4) insert a record into "mod_images" table, structure is like this :
ID | link_id (foreign_id) | picture URL | member name | email | caption | approved
5) admin gets an email
6) goes to a picture approval area in admin. Can "approve" or "dissaprove"

-- approval means "approved is set to YES"
-- dissaprove means "we delete the table row"

7) a block that queries the database for all images with the link_id ?? order by date
8) create thumbnails using smarty thumbnail plugin.
9) clicking image uses lightbox to pop up full size image, we can display more than 3 images now because we can use the gallery feature and click next and previous.


etc... anybody want to add anything?

[FSGDAG]

The one thing that might be helpful is that if in step 6 the admin dissaproves the image, it not only deletes it from the table row, but the actual file as well from the server. For spam purposes, and for those that dont have large amounts of webspace on their hosting accounts, this might help... Not to mention just to keep your files clean and orginized