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General Support: bulk upload within Plogger admin application?

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    Hello,

    I have successfully implemented plogger on our Web site at http://www.beitrayim.org/school/global/gallery/galleries, and am very happy with both the power and the simplicity of Plogger's adminstrative tools.

    We are a non-profit organization that relies on volunteers few of which have technical skills. I am confident that volunteers will be comfortable using Plogger, but less confident that volunteers will be comfortable or successful at FTPing large sets of images to the /plogger/uploads/ directory.

    Are there any plans to add the ability to upload multiple photos in one step from within the Plogger admin? If that was accompanied by the ability to select the directory (far away from the Plogger code....) it would be the icing on the cake for us.

    Thanks,

    Brian
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      CommentAuthormike
    • CommentTimeApr 24th 2006
     
    We do have the ability to upload ZIP files of images in the next version, which should be released soon. The only problem is the filesize issue. We try to override default PHP upload limits (2MB) in the script, but some hosts will not allow these overrides to execute. Also, there is no built in progress meter for the uploads yet, so users could be staring at an idle browser for quite awhile.

    So, the short answer is we are moving towards that end but haven't perfected the execution. Stay tuned.
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    Mike,

    I'm looking forward to it. Thanks for your quick reply.

    Brian
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    Mike,

    What about the directory issue? I am very hesitant to allow users anywhere near the program directory. That is the source of the curiousity about the ability to assign another directory as the upload directory.

    Even if Plogger does not support an alternate directory, do Web Servers have the capability to use "shortcuts" as in Windows? If so we could create a shortcut to the uploads directory and have users deposit files into the shortcut.

    Thanks for your help,

    Brian
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      CommentAuthormike
    • CommentTimeApr 25th 2006
     
    The zip file upload automatically unpacks the compressed file into the upload directory and redirects to the import page. Users will not have any special access to the directory in that respect.

    If you want to allow users to upload via FTP without giving them root access, you can simply create a new FTP account for them and change the root folder to /uploads/. When they login, this will be the only folder they view or upload to. Doing this is platform specific but I'm sure you could find some instructions on Google.
    • CommentAuthorLeeH
    • CommentTimeJul 8th 2006
     
    Mike, I guess this is as good a place to write this as any.

    I've intigrated jupload into my Plogger. In case you aren't familiar, it's a java upload applet. It is completely awesome. Very configureable.

    You can select one file, many, or the contents of a whole folder. It has a image preview built right in so you can see what your image looks like when you select it. It has progress meters for each file upload, and overall progress. It can be set to filter whatever file you wish. You can even have it resize the image before upload. You can pass session variables with it. It give realtime messages per file upload success, you can even have it generate a thumb for each image that will display with that message.

    You can set it to redirect to a particular page when upload completed.

    I have jupload embedded in plog-import.php to show with the message: "No images found in the /uploads/ directory......" if the uploads directory is indeed empty. Then when upload is complete, it redirects to plog-import.php?directory=2ee2bb0a1807cb28be632df161dd8d1e (uploads directory) so Plogger lists the images to ad my captions to.

    It's very slick! I don't know if if juploads creator (Mike also) would allow it to be distributed with Plogger or not, it is free for private use. Since only a admin would be using it, it might qualify, it would be VERY worth looking into.

    It completely gets around the 2 meg limit. Providing each image is less than that size. I've uploaded 300 megs of images in one shot, with php.ini at the 2 meg limit without any problems.

    jupload used to have a working demo so you could play with it. But right now it's gone. But it pretty much works as downloaded so trying it out is a snap.

    I set it up for my wife since ftp and her don't get along. She is very happy with it.

    http://www.jupload.biz
    • CommentAuthortimpadden
    • CommentTimeSep 10th 2006
     
    Wow that sounds like great function. Do I need to be a programmer to make it work? I can upload wiht FTP into the upload folder then I get a white screen on import . I think there may be somthing wrong with the plog-import.php file and I dont know what to do about it . if you have any suggestions I would appreciate some feedback timpadden at gmail dot com

    thanks -Tim
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      CommentAuthormike
    • CommentTimeSep 12th 2006
     
    Looks cool, I will check it out. I have always had a thing against Java Applets loading in my browser. Something about them just makes me cringe... I don't know, maybe because they are so slow or require a huge bloated interpreter to run, they just don't get me too excited.
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    LeeH,

    Would you be willing to email me modified plog-import.php so that we can try it on our Web site? As outlined at the top of this thread, we have been looking for a way to bulk upload photos since April 2006.

    In return, I would be happy to share the modifications we have made to the Plogger adminstrative interface. We now use the admin interface as a tool to manage our entire Web site. We have done this by:

    -storing our news items and pages in MySQL
    -adding 2 tabs to the Plogger admin interface to edit news items & pages
    -integrating a MySQL table editor tool (www.phpguru.org) into Plogger admin
    -integrating TinyMCE (an HTML editor) into the MySQL table editor

    We did all this because we found the Plogger interface so clean and intuitive that it seemed a small step (if only.....) to add the ability for non-technical users to edit pages and news items from within one interface.

    If there is interest in the Plogger community, I will put up a sample admin site.

    Thanks,

    Brian
    • CommentAuthorMarelo
    • CommentTimeSep 15th 2006
     
    I would like to know how do integrate jupload too...
    Leeh, tell us! :-)

    Best regards
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    Hello,

    There is another script-based uploading alternative that looks promising and (maybe) relatively easy to integrate - MultiPowUpload available at http://www.element-it.com/MultiPowUpload.aspx. It is a flash-based tool that has two components - a flash file and php file. It can be integrated into plog-upload.php by adding some html code.

    Brian
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    Hello,

    The MultiPowUpload script was easy to integrate into the Plogger admin system. I still need some additional help to finish integrating MultiPowUpload into the upload page.

    Where help is needed is passing the information entered into the "Choose a destination album" panel to the MultiPowUpload script. What information needs to be passed and what is the mechanism for passing it?

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Brian
    • CommentAuthormbarrett
    • CommentTimeSep 21st 2006
     
    I would also like to know how to integrate Jupload into Plogger. My host will not let me edit the php.ini file. I'm thinking of switching hosts though.
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    Mbarrett,

    You might not have to edit php.ini to use MultiPowUpload. I've tried both it and Jupload and the overhead is higher with Jupload since it is Java-based while MultiPowUpload is flash-based.

    Is anyone with PHP expertise willing to lend a hand at integrating one of these solutions?

    Brian
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    Hello,

    DONE! It was simpler than I thought. I removed the code that created the 3 boxes on the upload page and replaced it with code for a single box based on the MultiPowUpload code.

    Now the upload page is only for uploading, not for selecting/creating target photo album. Once the upload is done - there is a great visual indicator of upload progress - click on the import tab, and import into the selected/created target album.

    Brian
    • CommentAuthorjlearned
    • CommentTimeJan 16th 2007
     
    I have a site that that I am building for a non profit and I would like to implement plogger but I need a way to easily allow our members to upload pictures to the site. I have a Flash Program that handles a multiple files and resizes them prior to being uploaded.

    So that takes care of uploading the files, I am stumped on how to bridge the proccess of uploading and importing.

    I could leave the flash uploader as a standalone page, but then I would need to know how to set up a crons-job that would run the import script in the background on a set interval. I have set up cron jobs before but this seems a little more involved.

    The other option is to embed the swf file into the correct uploads page so once they upload the files the can move right over and import the pictures. I have a basic understanding about html and php but I need a little more direction.

    -Jason
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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