Hello,

Seeing the latest version of zenphoto, i am thinking about dumping albums and using tags to organize.

But tagging each file manually woud take ages, so i was wondering, if taggin by any software is supported by zenphoto, like adobe picasa or Adobe Photoshop Album ?

Also anyone can think of any disadvantages to using tags over albums ?

Thanks

tags require a search function for each fetch, so are much less efficient than albums. Also, the built in support for tags is different from albums--You would have to create your own index page based on search URLs. Also you would have to figure out what to use for thumbnails (should you want to associate thumgs with your pseudo albums.)

I can't see any real advantage of using tags to organize your gallery. Why were you thinking of doing this?

You can set tags with adobe bridge--they call them "keywords". You can select a number of images and set them all to the same keywords.

It's pretty clear the organizational reasons for doing this, it would be a new gallery paradigm, but very useful.

Like Stephen said, Zenphoto is not currently set up to be able to handle a gallery entirely based on tags. It wouldn't be very efficient or easy, and would require a lot of theme customization and possibly extra programming.

There are people who have succeeded in doing this before, I corresponded with one, Alex Wilson who did heavy hacking on the Zenphoto core back in the 1.0.x days and came up with a great solution: http://alexwilsonphoto.com/gallery/ (Warning: some artistic nudity, NSFW). I can get you in touch with him if you'd like to use his code.

I'd like Zenphoto to at least become more efficient in working with tags in the future, and we've got some changes planned that will help with that, but nothing in the near future. Sorry about that.

For now, we recommend organizing in albums based on your primary interest, whether that be place, date, event name, whatever. Then you can tag and use the current tag features to allow navigation in that way. Good luck!

I have a gallery of movie events. I have albums set up for each event, but i would like also to have a album of each famous persons from the event. But that would require copying all images from events to the persons albums too.

Tags would be much better way to organize this, don't you think ?

I know it would be hard to make, but are tags efficient ? I mean if i manually link using tags from main page, will it take lots of resources compared to albums ?

This is for a high traffic site ( 3000-4000 Visitors daily )

Thanks a lot for teh alexwilson link, that is very nicely done

Pages created from tags are created by a search each time, no optimization. The search has to go through the whole database. It is one search on the albums and a second on the images. You can see the performance by setting your serach fields option in Admin to just the tags and do a search on one of the persons.

Linking to the search is not very hard. The url you want is returned by `getSearchURL($person, '', SEARCH_TAGS. 0);` where $person is the tag for the particular individual.