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Download Favorites

anand Member
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The Zenphoto sites I serve are used by families who would like to be able to download the family photos they favorite. Since "favorites" are generated (by a smooth plugin, thanks!), it seems one cannot use just a codeblock with printDownloadLinkAlbumZip() to create a zip to download that "album".

Can anyone advise on how to download favorites in a zip? Thank you.

I fear I will lose these families to sites with software that lets them download or send to a print service with just a click, but I am allied with Zenphoto. :)

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    I fear we have no solution for downloading favorite sets available. The albumzip is quite direct bcause an album is based on the filesystem so you can just take its images. Favorites however are virtual so it is not that easy. A good idea actually but no promises when we might get to this. You could open a ticket.
  • anand Member
    Thanks for the speedy response. Figured that functionality might not be possible considering the virtual nature. Maybe one of the shopping cart plugins will work for this purpose. (And thanks for all you do!)
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    It is for sure possible to do that. It's all code and favorites are a kind of albums, even technically. Have to look at the code more closely. Best you really open a ticket on the GitHub issue tracker.
  • sbillard Member
    The album zip download will allow you to download the images (but not sub-albums) from a dynamic album. So if you could make an album of the favorites then that album could have its images downloaded.

    Zenphoto does not provide this feature, but ZenPhoto20 does.
  • trisweb Administrator
    Thanks sbillard. Let's keep this forum to discussion of the core Zenphoto. Thanks!
  • sbillard Member
    OK, sop let me get this straight. It is your desire that rather than provide solutions you would prefer to suppress alternative options?

    Seems to me a disservice to users. But of course this is your forum. You can sensor information as you seem fit.
  • anand Member
    How cool to have the developers of the downloadList extension respond! Thank you! My hope was that each user could download a zip of their own favorites, so making each virtual album to a real one would be tricky. Guessing if users added images to a shopping cart, then they could each download their own "favorites". Thinking that is the way to go. Again, thank you all so much for your diligence and for all you do on this project.
  • sbillard Member
    I have a test install you could take a look at.

    Because the site is a test install I leave it "closed" so you will have to first visit the admin pages:

    testalbum(dot)sbillard(dot)org/zp-core/admin.php

    Log in with the credentials: demo-user/demo201408

    There is not much you can see on the admin pages so visit the main site and you will see an album named "demo". In that album is another album named "demo-user-favorite" which was created from the demo-user's favorites. (You can also click on "My Favorites" at the bottom of the index page to see what the favorites contain.

    The "Download demo" theme has download links enabled for the album.
  • anand Member
    Wow! Thanks for sharing that. How did you do it? I think I need to go back to read up on favorites settings. Very impressed!
  • sbillard Member
    Standard support of the software being run. See the footer of the site.
  • anand Member
    I see now. I thought ZenPhoto20 was a beta of a future ZP release. I did not understand it was a fork. Thanks to each of you for your input!
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