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    • CommentAuthorsalzinger
    • CommentTimeMay 16th 2008
     
    Hi...

    First post here.
    I uploaded the application and it is working fine. Point is that I would like to have more fields when uploading the images, not only caption and comments. I would like to have more options, like location, date, and other fields specific for the type of images I'm planning to upload (aviation photography).

    Making some basic editing on the plog-upload.php file I found where I have to edit in order to include more fields, but, albeit the new field indeed appears on the upload tab it does not make entries on the mySQL database. In other words, the information typed in is not being saved. I have little knowledge of this king of programming so the question is, where I have to make further editing in order to make this new information be saved at the database? This new fields must be searchable and indexable too.

    Thanks!

    RS
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      CommentAuthorDeeJayOdie
    • CommentTimeMay 18th 2008
     
    The program already takes date information from the exif tag of the picture and displays the date over the picture in the classic theme and most other themes. It would be nice though if they would make it so you could change the date though. I had a small problem with that when I took the batteries out of my camera and forgot to reset the date and time. I then had to go into my database itself and correct the date. I might just think about making a script myself for changing the date. Unless the developers beat me to it. When and if I create something, I'll post it. As for your other problem of adding location, I'm afraid I don't really have the time to do that, especially since I myself don't really need it. But request it as a new feature for a later version. Maybe ypu'll get lucky.
    • CommentAuthorcordoval
    • CommentTimeOct 10th 2008
     
    I am interested in developing a way to do this as a workaround:
    1 - we could set it up in such a way that the info is uploaded to the same album with empty images
    2 - we could set it up in such a way that the field name and the field description correspond to a parameter to be stored on database for each one of these empty images

    3 - recode following how the name and description go attached to the image

    Advantages:
    Although 1 and 2 save coding as in 3, 1 and 2 would require more coding in php into the page that the information is going to be embedded, more queries to the database, etc.

    Anyone out there to offer a sound suggestion? Kim? Anyone?

    Thanks,
    • CommentAuthorcordoval
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2008
     
    I have solved my problem through another technique. Just adding descriptions to the pictures and then grab those descriptions and display then as information fields elsewhere, like a footer and a header of the album view, etc.

    Works pretty well, now my problem is found when I pass this description text out, I see in the manager that I can enter even html tags, however, when I go to the album view I can see the tags as text. I wonder if I can do something about this since I have the variable in php.

    thanks,
    • CommentAuthorcordoval
    • CommentTimeOct 11th 2008
     
    html_entity_decode does it well.

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