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EazyOne Member
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Any words on the next update, and new features?..
I really like this gallery, and for it to meet my requirements, I really would love to see it with a CALENDAR-funtion as seen on: http://www.trisweb.com/archives/2005/05/30/zenphoto-status/

Keep up the good work. :)

Regards
EZ1

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  • thinkdreams Member
    EZ1.

    I think you might be mistaken about the Calendar. The Calendar you see on that page is an archive generated calendar via wordpress, which is the blogging software running on Trisweb. To my knowledge, there is no calendar feature planned (at least I don't think so.)
  • EazyOne Member
    I know its genrated via WP. I only used it as an example.
    I just would like to have a calendar-feature in ZP, cause I need a photoalbum, for my travels (not a blog), and then ZP would meet my personal requirements. :)

    /EZ1
  • thinkdreams Member
    Oh. OK. Sorry for misconstruing your intentions. I think that could probably be done, but at the moment I suspect it would be a DIY solution, since Tris is quite busy at the moment.

    Zenphoto already has a rudimentary date function in the latest 1.0.3 version, and I do have it enabled in my code on my site, but I don't regularly use it. My Thinkdreams theme took advantage of displaying it, but my new theme does not.

    As for building a calendar, or timeline, if you will, you could take the functionality and create a PHP based 'timeline' display of the pictures in chronolgical order.

    If you do a search for 'timeline wordpress php' there is a wordpress plugin that displays a timeline that was recently done, that might be able to be adapted for this purpose.

    Since you're just pulling date information already in the Zenphoto DB (if you enable the date functions commented out in the current version), you should be able to do what you want. Provided you wish to mess with the code.

    Just some ideas. Pardon my rambling. :)
  • EazyOne Member
    Thanx for your fast and helpful reply..
    Yes I saw the disabled date-parts. guess Ill try to enable them (if they work for you, I guess they can work for me aswell)..
    Being as lazy as I am: How many of the included files do I need to check, for successfully enabling the date func.? :)
    I already found it in ADMIN.PHP, but now the script dont work at all... :-/
    But Ill start looking in the rest of the files...

    Thx in advance
    /EZ1
  • thinkdreams Member
    Give me a bit. I'll take a peek and let you know what files need to be modified (I can't remember off the top of my head). There is some older forum articles about it, but I'll post a new reply here shortly.
  • thinkdreams Member
    May I take a look at your admin.php? If you want, you can "dropload" it to me, which is a free online quick retrieval FTP-ish thing, which has a free registration. It will send me an email once it's uploaded. I've used it for work a lot, it works well.

    All you should have to do is uncomment the lines in the admin.php, and that should do the trick. Provided you didn't miss something in your syntax. I've done that before. :)

    http://www.dropload.com
    My email is craig (at) thinkdreams.com
  • thinkdreams Member
    Here is an example using the printAlbumDate() function in my theme. (Just in time for Halloween)

    http://www.thinkdreams.com/zenphoto/halloweenpumpkins2006/

    The trick is to be really specific about the structure of the date. If you have access to phpMyAdmin, you can go in there and look at the date field under the albums table. The format is 0000-00-00 00:00:00. I just enter for example 2006-10-15, which seems to work just fine.

    Let me know when i can look at your admin.php. It's probably just a syntax problem the more I look at it in my configuration.
  • EazyOne Member
    I mailed it to you :)

    /EZ1
  • EazyOne Member
    Hi ThinkDreams

    Dunno if you ever got the file, but I have sent it again, this time using DropLoad.

    I cant get it to work, upload works, but it returns a blank screen, after I press save, and no date is added, when I look in DB using PHPmyAdmin

    TIA
    EazyOne
  • trisweb Administrator
    Dates are not well implemented and entirely untested in current versions. It's one of the major problems in fact, mainly due to the fact that I couldn't devise a nice simple date entry interface...

    Hopefully I'll have that solved very soon, as I just refactored the database persistence layer and things are now much easier to work with.

    It'll likely be a single date field that's by default populated with the date from the EXIF data, if that's not present, then it'll use the file's Create date, and if that's not, then the Modified date. After that, it will of course be editable through the admin, and likely AJAXified like the title/description while browsing the gallery.
  • EazyOne Member
    Sounds very promising Tristan.
    For now Im just trying to get it to work, so it will create the date, when the album is made.. (It works sweet with the comments!?), because Ive made a calendar, similar to that on your blog-archives (http://www.trisweb.com/archives/).

    Any idea when next version will be released?..

    /EZ1
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