From dom@earth.li Sat Jul 10 23:11:13 2004
From: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
To: openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org
Subject: [OpenGuides-Dev] Photo/image framework
Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 23:11:12 +0100
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Since people are starting to want to contribute photos the Oxford Guide,
I've been thinking about what level of integration is appropriate with
OpenGuides.

My initial plan is as follows:

Config var image_base is a partial URL defining where to find images.
Standard subdir scheme $image_base/thumb and $image_base/normal for a
simple two-size hierachy of images.

A macro #EMBED_PHOTO [imagename] or similar, which would do, approximately:

<a href="$image_base/normal/$imagename"><img
src="$image_base/thumb/$imagename width="$width" height="$height"
border="0" alt="Image for $node_name"></a>.

A new special field in the node "photo" which would be used to define
the "primary" image for the node. This could be automagically displayed,
if present, for example to the right of the metadata in the standard web
layout.

Photo uploading I am leaving as a separate problem for now. If people
have any particular ideas I'd be interested in them, but the way I see
it the photos probably want to be reviewed rather than made public
straight away, and there is no particular need to have uploading
integrated into OpenGuides itself. I may investigate DAV, or a simple
CGI script for POSTing files.

An example hierachy is
<http://www.ox.compsoc.net/openguides/oxford/photos/>. Note that I also
have a full/ directory for the full-size photos (useful for
"remastering" the guide into print, for example) and a simple note of
who took the photo.

Any comments before I start trying to code this?

Cheers,

Dominic.


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From alessio@sevenseas.org Sun Jul 11 10:27:25 2004
From: Alessio Bragadini <alessio@sevenseas.org>
To: openguides-dev@lists.openguides.org
Subject: Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] Photo/image framework
Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2004 11:27:17 +0200
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On Sun, 2004-07-11 at 00:11, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> Photo uploading I am leaving as a separate problem for now. If people
> have any particular ideas I'd be interested in them

I am starting to use CGI::Uploader and it's a very interesting package.
It generates thumbnails on the fly (using ImageMagick and its Perl
package) and stores all information in a database. It's kind of a
heavyweight solution, though.

http://search.cpan.org/~markstos/CGI-Uploader-0.76_02/

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Alessio Bragadini <alessio(a)sevenseas.org>
Sevenseas.org Hacking Community



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