For all those wondering when a new version will be coming, this should be a welcome post...

I've been very busy lately with school (I go to Berkeley, after all ;-) and I've had to put development mostly on hold. I've fixed a few bugs here and there, but not enough to warrant a release.

After the semester ends, I hope to get a bugfix release out first (sometime in the first week of January) and then finish up 1.0 features, including:

• Sorting by Anything (preferably drag-'n-drop too)
• RSS Feeds
• Sub-albums
• selective EXIF data display
• Complete metadata (dates, places, etc.)

The expected time for the 1.0 release is mid-January, but could be as late as February. As usual, no promises or implied warranty ;-)

[b]I am looking for developers.[/b] Post here if you're interested. I'm only looking for the best and brightest (not just PHP K0derz), so be prepared to prove yourself.

Also see this thread for discussion of way-future ideas.

I'am currently working on ZenPhoto to implement tags.

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[] I use the Toxi shema. With a structure in tags (parent/childs)
[]It could be nice to use javascript in admin panel to add or remove a photo for a tag. Drag and drop
[*]"Albums" could be removed and remplaced by tag structure generated with folder structure.
[/list]
mail: superdevy#gmail.com

I personally prefer the folder based album structure at the moment. I would not be opposed to tag in addition to these of course.

A welcome post indeed!

My uni work not withstanding (I have what is potentially a fairly heavy team project to do over the next 4 months) I'd be very interested in helping this project develop further -- What skills are you looking for beyond PHP/SQL/CSS/Javascript?

One of the things I'm hoping to see come about is a way to include ZP libraries/functions into non-ZP pages (ie: the rest of the site, or a blog) to allow easy thumbnail pictures of custom sizes which link through to the image page or gallery (eg: http://www.chateaucolombier.com/ -- don't expect much of the actual gallery, it isn't yet styled).

There are more things, but they're all sort of swimming around aimlessly in my mind, so I'll regurgitate them when they solidify a bit more.

SuperDevy - I sent you an email, check it.

HPKA - I won't get rid of the album/folder relationship. I like it too. Tags/categories/etc will only be an addition. I still have to figure out how exactly.

dom - Thanks for the offer, do you have an e-mail address where I can contact you?

Hi,

Tristan: I replied to your mail with some files.

I have seen ZenPhoto on BerliOS
This tool is very useful for multideveloper project. So is it possible to use it ? There is actually no file in the CVS !

HPKA: About suppression of albums, I propose to remplace them by a tag hierarchy : each (sub)folder is associate to a (sub)tag, generated automatically. Album is a Tag linked to a Folder.

I have no experience of programmation in Javascript, so I don't know how to use AJAX and others Drag'n'Drop possibilities. dom could work on admin tag interface ?

Have you any suggestion on my tag functions ?

trisweb - [e-mail removed]

Sounds fantastic. Having had a bit more time to think about it I even tags only with autotagging by folder would have worked. However a hybrid solution sounds like something I can experiment with and see if I like it.

Keep up the good work, rest assured 1.0 will be on my gallery as soon as it arrives.

Thanks Dominic. Got the e-mail.

And I'll be setting up a Subversion (SVN) repository on berlios ASAP.

I'd definitely be interested in lending a hand wherever it's needed. I've played around with various methods of metadata importing and a little bit of sorting on my local zp install but I didn't want to put too much work into it until I knew the direction you were headed.

My time is fairly stretched at the moment, but I should be wrapping up development on my current big freelance project in the next week or two.

rbeels(at)student.pnca.edu

Tristan,

I'm very interested in helping out with this project. My day job title is Chief Architect and i've been doing this sort of things for years. Ping me for more info if you want.

When do you think the svn repo will be place?
Sorting, sub albums and RSS feeds is where I think I can help.

Todd

FYI all - SVN repository is up. You can view it at: http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/zenphoto

i'm wondering if some progress has been made on the cgi-problems on Dreamhost. I'm also on dreamhost and experienced the same problems. If noone has started working on them, maybe i can make some free time. From the different gallery-scripts i have seen and tried i like zenphoto the most (certainly when it will have subalbums and EXIF )

How do I get the files from SVN?? (Pardon the noob question)

fishbone, get TurtoiseSVN

Had some news that I thought folks might be interested in. Since Tristan graciously allowed me to join the ZP project a few weeks ago, I've been working away to add sorting to ZP. Drag and drop sorting was the goal. And now it works! Also we have sort by filename and image title.
Check out my dev gallery at

http://www.luckyspin.org/zenphoto

Admin login: admin/password

If you log in, you'll see a new drop down in the album edit page, and a new album sort page link at the top. You can also get to the sort page from the main album view, if you're logged in.

So.. this is still early, be gentle. The workflow might change (perhaps quite a bit!), but the plumbing is there. And I might make a sortable theme. Comments/feedback greatly appreciated.

Also, plz don't take the p*** at the gallery. You can play, but don't ruin it for others by making me take it down.

Great work, where are the sources ?

@Luckyspin - very nice.

@Lucky

If this is known, please ignore

I'm running FF 1.5 w/flashblock and adblock extensions and while I can reorder them visually, when I click "Save", it says that the album order has been saved but the visual changes reset to their previous condition (ie: not actually saving the changes).

Wasn't sure if that was intentional for testing purposes or not, or if something is fubar'd on my end somehow.

Either way, great implementation and looking forward to running the next version