few quibbles from first timer!

firsttimeuser

hi. first of all, wow, great piece of software, and something almost exactly what i was going to write myself! however, i'd like to suggest a few things.

first installation went very smoothly (never read the docs!) however, after i put in a un / pw, having to create a new admin user wasn't very intuitive, and caused me a bit of confusion at first.

i immediately dumped some dirs and sub dirs of images into the albums dir, and was amazed that they all showed up! excellent - this is the intuition i was after, not having to import images one by one unlike other gallery software...

also, i really like the zip file import, however, as you've got subalbums, which is perfect for manual catagorisation - exactly what i want - i'd like to be able to have subdirs in the zip file, and have sub albums auto created from them. so could you check for dir names in the zip, and create sub albums accordingly? that'd be awesome!

also, on a gallery page, my cpu goes way over the top, shooting up to 100%. this is a windows machine on localhost with xampp, but still, i've never seen anything like that before! why is it?

also, i think having random thumbs for each page view is a great idea, but a bit too cpu intensive if you've got a lot of visitors and/or albums with a lot of images, so, could you have a random thumb of the hour/day instead? so thumbs can be cached more often?

and when you choose the thumbs for an album, the preview i see in teh dropdown in ff, is different to the actual thumb, so i sometimes have to do a bit of guess work.

another suggestion, which would be amazing is, if for each image, i could define a crop point to tighten up the thumbs, ie, top centre, top right, middle right etc. that'd help.

also, something which would speed up bulk album creation would be, if in the dir names from manual upload, for the album titles, if it could convert underscore to space in the that would be very useful.

ok, these are just a few i guess minor, but-would-make-a-huge-difference quibbles, and, i'd like to say thanks once again, rarely have i seen software that i will actually use!

acrylian

1) Password: Could you describe that a little further?

2) zip: I don't know if that is possible, but feel free to open a feature request ticket for it on our bugtracker.

3) CPU-useage: this is because the thumbnails are created on the fly once you visit the the gallery the first time. They are then cached and used from the cache (unless you change the size of course). You can also precache manually via the admin backend.

4) thumb selection: well, the limitation of a dropdown.

5) individual thumb crops: Already on our ticket list.

6) If you upload via the admin backend, Zenphoto generates SEO friendly album and image names.

firsttimeuser

1) i've installed gallery2, coppermine, and this all in one sitting, so i may be getting a bit confused, but i thought the installation asked to set up an admin un / pw? if not please, ignore this!

2) it should be possible from teh point of a zip file to determine what image is in what dir, however, if that can tie into the code, not having checked the code out yet, i'm not sure! i'll head on over to the bug tracker adn maek a request

4) could a popup open instead? or some fancy ajax style div open out with the thumbs asking you to click on a thumb to select the thumb?

5) excellent!

6) sure, but i mean in the actual title given to the name of the album, not in the url.

firsttimeuser

something i forgot, was that when i click on a thumb through to a big image page, then click on the image, i get the error:
Zenphoto Error: the requested object was not found. Please go back and try again.

have i screwed up the installation somewhere?

acrylian

1) Right, you have to enter a password and a user name while first install. What is confusing with that? Maybe I am too used to it..:-)

4) Ah, ok, well, open a ticket...:-)

6) Ok, but what if people want their underscores to stay where they are?

Your error could be a htaccess error. Do you have the right htaccess file (although setup should have told you.)

firsttimeuser

6) so maybe it could be added as an option in the settings? "chars to convert to space from filenames in the gallery / image title " : array('-', '_'); etc?

could be left empty to leave underscores as is?

firsttimeuser

maybe i could ask here:

http://localhost/galleryscripts/zenphoto/zenphoto/test-album/17689.jpg.php?p=*full-image

this is what the link is for when i go to click on the big image. does that mean anything to anyone?

firsttimeuser

http://www.zenphoto.org/zenphoto/impressionists/Monet+-+sunrise.jpg.php

click on the image there, and that's the same error i get maybe that should be a bug report

sbillard

The URL is to the "full image" processing software of zenphoto. You have the option to protect your images (the default setting) and this script handles that protection. If you change the option to 'unprotected' you will link directly to the image.

I got no error clicking on the image--the image showed up as expected.

acrylian

For 6): Feel free to open a ticket for that too, we will then discuss it. But of course we can't promise anything, since our resources are limited. Then someone else wants to convert his minus or whatever. We don't want to be come overloaded with little featueres...:-)

http://localhost/galleryscripts/zenphoto/zenphoto/test-album/17689.jpg.php?p=*full-image
This is the full image link (the unprocessed image you uploaded), you can set several levels of protection for it in the admin.

As for the other link to our demeo, I don't get any error.

firsttimeuser

interesting - the link works in ie, but not firefox.

firsttimeuser

ignore that - i had 'disable referrers' active in the web dev toolbar. thanks