The front end of the [image] system is now updated. I have rushed this just slightly (what else is new) because I've spent way too much time on it and I have to get going on several other things. So once again I am leaving it up to you guys to find bugs.
Some good news: the URLs have been slightly changed, but a redirection system is in place this time, so all links from the previous image system will work flawlessly (what could go wrong?) in the new system. It still might be the case that there are image links (to albums, or to thumbnail pages) from 2 rewrites ago (from more than a few months ago) that might be broken. If anyone can find such a link please point it out and then I can easily add it to the redirection function. I just honestly can't remember how those URLs were created.
No doubt my design is so brilliant that no description is necessary, but here are a few things to note.
Like the music system, I really suggest people make use of the search field. This is a very easy way to find what you want. Remember, the search is constrained to just the images in whatever view you are looking at. So if I am looking at /image/jim/vienna_2002/ and I preform a search, I will only get results back from matches on images in my vienna_2002 album.
Column headings are clickable to sort by that column. The default is to sort reverse chronologically on the date.
You can no longer get thumbnail views of any complete lists of pictures. Thumbnail views are only available on albums (well, that's not entirely true - thumbnail views are always possible if you hack the URL correctly, but a link to thumbnail views are only given for albums.) This link is in the left hand column.
Also in the left hand column, when viewing one of your own albums, is a link to 'edit this album'. From that screen you can change the name of albums, move them (give them a new parent album,) and reorder the images in the album. Thumbnail views now order themselves using this order, not chronological. This could be considered an important added feature, depending on how you look at it (you didn't use to be able to set the order of images inside an album.)
Still playing around with the image system so no substantive feedback yet, other than that I'm enjoying it. One minor thing I noticed--the links to [images] from the individual nav. bars don't work.
Thanks Tom. Those [images] links should work now. It is sort of a hack though, and creates another call to the database for every page load. Basically I have it look at the owner of the page, and then see if the page owner has an image album (which would be the case if the page owner had ever uploaded a picture.) If an image album exists, then the [images] link goes to that album. If not, then it just goes to the top level of the image system (to /image/).
So on your page it links to /image/tommoody/, but on treehouse it links to /image/ (because the treehouse page is owned by the root account, and root has no image uploads.)
Probably in the future I will change this and add a field to [editpage] where the page owner can specify an image album as the default for that page. That seems more flexible, and it will save the extra call to the database for each page load.
Thanks. I don't think it needs to go to my image page, necessarily--I don't mind taking the extra step to switch from the group page. It's convenient to have the link on the pages when adding images to them, etc. but maybe doesn't need to be customized to that extent.
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Some good news: the URLs have been slightly changed, but a redirection system is in place this time, so all links from the previous image system will work flawlessly (what could go wrong?) in the new system. It still might be the case that there are image links (to albums, or to thumbnail pages) from 2 rewrites ago (from more than a few months ago) that might be broken. If anyone can find such a link please point it out and then I can easily add it to the redirection function. I just honestly can't remember how those URLs were created.
- jim 4-08-2004 7:51 pm
No doubt my design is so brilliant that no description is necessary, but here are a few things to note.
Like the music system, I really suggest people make use of the search field. This is a very easy way to find what you want. Remember, the search is constrained to just the images in whatever view you are looking at. So if I am looking at /image/jim/vienna_2002/ and I preform a search, I will only get results back from matches on images in my vienna_2002 album.
Column headings are clickable to sort by that column. The default is to sort reverse chronologically on the date.
You can no longer get thumbnail views of any complete lists of pictures. Thumbnail views are only available on albums (well, that's not entirely true - thumbnail views are always possible if you hack the URL correctly, but a link to thumbnail views are only given for albums.) This link is in the left hand column.
Also in the left hand column, when viewing one of your own albums, is a link to 'edit this album'. From that screen you can change the name of albums, move them (give them a new parent album,) and reorder the images in the album. Thumbnail views now order themselves using this order, not chronological. This could be considered an important added feature, depending on how you look at it (you didn't use to be able to set the order of images inside an album.)
- jim 4-08-2004 8:42 pm [add a comment]
Still playing around with the image system so no substantive feedback yet, other than that I'm enjoying it. One minor thing I noticed--the links to [images] from the individual nav. bars don't work.
- tom moody 4-14-2004 1:52 am [add a comment]
Thanks Tom. Those [images] links should work now. It is sort of a hack though, and creates another call to the database for every page load. Basically I have it look at the owner of the page, and then see if the page owner has an image album (which would be the case if the page owner had ever uploaded a picture.) If an image album exists, then the [images] link goes to that album. If not, then it just goes to the top level of the image system (to /image/).
So on your page it links to /image/tommoody/, but on treehouse it links to /image/ (because the treehouse page is owned by the root account, and root has no image uploads.)
Probably in the future I will change this and add a field to [editpage] where the page owner can specify an image album as the default for that page. That seems more flexible, and it will save the extra call to the database for each page load.
- jim 4-15-2004 5:03 pm [add a comment]
Thanks. I don't think it needs to go to my image page, necessarily--I don't mind taking the extra step to switch from the group page. It's convenient to have the link on the pages when adding images to them, etc. but maybe doesn't need to be customized to that extent.
- tom moody 4-15-2004 6:03 pm [add a comment]