Hi!

I’ve been trying to renovated my website for ages now, I’ve looked into EE then I started dabbling with Code Igniter(which is great btw, but it’s too much work to do from scratch) and now I’m looking into EE again. I have two problems with the script, one is the apparent lack of a good way to handle multiple image uploads to the galleries and the other is related to the members who upload the photos.

My questions are:
- is it possible to send multiple files to the galleries using the moblog module, ie, sending multiple files in the same email? how would that look on the moblog template?
- in certain pages I need to filter the entries shown by photographer, the photographer always being the person who uploaded the photo, since i can’t see the database structure, could you tell me if there is a field in the gallery table for the member who uploaded the photo? If there is I was considering using the query module to retrieve all the entry ids for the wanted filtering and then pass those to the gallery entries tag so that i can take advantage of the built in table structure and pagination. What do you think?

I’ll probably have more questions in the next couple of days, but these are the ones I really need to know at the moment.

Thank you!

Hi, Isabel - I think that for what you describe, you would be best to use a weblog for your gallery, with appropriate custom fields for a gallery. This way you can give more granular editing permissions, as well as output entries by author (photographer).

Lisa Wess - 22 May 2008 11:59 AM

Hi, Isabel - I think that for what you describe, you would be best to use a weblog for your gallery, with appropriate custom fields for a gallery. This way you can give more granular editing permissions, as well as output entries by author (photographer).

The weblogs are more flexible, but they lack the auto thumbnailing and also the table structure to display the images, both features are important in my case. Besides this I worry about having the weblogs and the photos on the same table, when my site was online it had over fifteen thousand photos, I know that’s not much compared to many other sites out there but I would like to separate the photos from everything else.

You haven’t answered my question about the moblogs though. Is it possible to send several images in the same email so that each of them is posted as an individual entry, considering that all the photos in the same email have the same characteristics (title, category, caption, etc...) ?

Yes, if you send several attachments in one email, the moblog will create one entry per image.

IsabelS - 22 May 2008 12:27 PM

The weblogs are more flexible, but they lack the auto thumbnailing and also the table structure to display the images

Have you considered using Mark Huot’s file extension for auto-thumbnailing: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/38997/

Use it in a weblog:entries form. The files get stored in the filesystem, not as database objects.