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June 28, 2012 9:15am
Subscribe [3]#1 / Jun 28, 2012 9:15am
Hi Guys and Girls,
Just wondering if anyone had any thoughts on the best way to build an image archive, EE 1.xx used to cater beautifully for such a case.
We have used Matrix and Multi-Upload but the performance is terrible with 300+ images.
Thanks in advance..
#2 / Jun 28, 2012 9:24am
Hi. Is the archive to view on the front end too? Do you need to batch upload? I recently built an image archive using a Channel and each Image being an Entry.. this means that we can assign lots of info to each image and display it to the user.. Is that the sort of thing you need?
#3 / Jun 28, 2012 9:33am
Yes the image archive is on the front end and we would need a bulk upload. It a photography website.
#4 / Jun 28, 2012 10:29am
Ok.. so create a Channel eg. Gallery
Create the Fields eg. Image, Title etc
Then for the image upload assign a directory to upload all images too.
This can be done in Content > Files > File Upload Manager > Create New).
Set the image size/resize “Image Manipulations”. This will generate thumbnails etc within the Gallery directory
Then start to upload the images under Content > Publish
Then write you template to display the images
http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/channel_entries.html
That’s it!
#5 / Jun 28, 2012 10:47am
Well, yes and no..😉
That approach doesn’t give front-end uploads - you’d have to add in a Safecracker-based template to allow images to be uploaded from the front-end.
It also doesn’t give multi-upload. You’d still need Matrix for that (and I’m not sure if there is a EE2-based multi-upload).
Are you talking 300 images in one entry? If that’s the case then EE might not be your best solution overall, IMHO. EE is a good general purpose content management system, but pushing it that far to be an Image Management tool might be too much.
#6 / Jun 28, 2012 11:09am
Hi guys,
Thanks for your thoughts on this matter.
Yes each entry can contain 300+ images, the original setup was to use Matrix and the multi-upload. This worked fine until we reached 246 matrix lines then the problems started. So I created 3 separate Matrix fields in the entry, to resolve the upload issue, however this then left a pagination issue.
The archive does work, its just slow on initial open.
You can view the site here.