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Album owner field?

micheall Member
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So while I was adding a few meta-tags to the zenFBcommon, (author being one of them) I came across something while perusing the database.

I see the images have an owner field, comments have a ownerid, and news & pages both have ways to locate the author, the only one I can't decipher is albums.

How does one determine who the owner of the album is? For instance, with images, I can populate the owner database field to match if I need, or I can pull the admin name for default. That would work in a single-user gallery, but in galleries where there are multiple users and each I assume is still maintaining ownership of their images, where is album ownership designated?

Is this something that would need to be covered by a custom_data field maybe? I did notice theres a VARCHAR field named user, but my database for it has it all populated as zeros.

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  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Zenphoto 1.4.1 will have such an album field (see the dev nightly). There is currently only a "user" field.

    Actually Zenphoto never stored who an album or image belonged to before (in the sense of an author or uploader like with authors of news or pages). I think 1.4.1 will do this now.

    If you mean the users assigned to albums to manage that is stored in the table "admin_to_object" (for all items.) See the included PDF in /docs about the table relations.

    Sbillard is the user management architect so he will be able to tell more details.

    Btw, the comment owner id means the id of the item the comment belongs to (so not quite the same).
  • sbillard Member
    The concept of an album owner is a bit dicy. It is easy to know who uploaded an image since that happens only once. (BTW, that field is populated by one of the plugins, can't remember which.) The only "album owner" that would make sense is one of the users assigned management rights. There can be multiple.

    As acrylian says, on the next release you will find the fields will be set always. The album owner field will be set to the creator of the folder, but can be changed (as can the image owner be changed.)
  • micheall Member
    Roger that, that's kind of how I expected it to work when I saw the field. Then I got to thinking about what would stop it from being populated and of course file discovery via FTP the system wouldn't know who created the folder. So it made sense after I thought about it a bit more why it wouldn't have been. I'll take a look at the development release this weekend if I can.
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