zenphoto 0.2 - “Comments Enabled”
June 24th 2005
Comments and navigation are done! Zenphoto is now very functional, and I’m probably going to move the photos site on this page over to it pretty soon (as soon as I do some image/album metadata editing, which just needs the forms).
Check out the demo gallery and test it thouroughly.
You can leave test comments there (and please do), but leave any meaningful comments here so I don’t have to search for them. I’m looking for ideas for the admin interface now that you’ve seen the public face of the gallery (which is, remember, fully customizable—this is only a test theme), so let me know how you want it to work. I’m leaning toward an intuitive “admin mode” which would let you browse the gallery with special actions available (like editing titles, descriptions, and comments on the fly with AJAX), plus a few extra panes for mass-title/description-editing and uploading. I’ve said this before, but think flickr. Same idea. Sound good?
And yes, I’ll make the comment info cookied sooner or later. I didn’t want to get into javascript tonight 
This is looking great! When can we expect a test version?
What about WordPress support? Will that be included?
Hey this is really fast on my Treo. Excellent!
Very slick, tristan.
Stephane—I’ll release it after I think the interface elements are ready to go. I think you have to be able to edit everything first (titles, descriptions, comments, etc). I expect to have that done in 0.3, and I’ll release the source then.
Anders—What do you mean by Wordpress support exactly? I’m interested in how it might integrate, and I’m definately thinking of plugins and things to make the two play nicely together, but I’d love to hear your ideas.
looks god
cant wait till v0.3 & source comes out..
Great work!
Are comments stored in a database or in plain files?
Database, MySQL, and it’d be simple to add support for other DBs if needed. The database will also be used for storing titles/descriptions/etc, and doing searches and connecting grouped images (once I get there).
This is fantastic!
An integration with wordpress would be really cool… I mean a “layout integration”.
It should be easy to do… we just have to find someone who can write a short guide on “how” to actually do it.
I think I’ll take a look at the code soon (now it’s 00.30 here in Italy, damn too late to start coding)
Keep the awesome stuff up
I like this a lot. As with Joen been looking for the right thing for a while now.
Intergration with WordPress would be brilliant. By integration I mean have it as a plugin and the admin interface is part of the WordPress proper.
RSS feed?
Definitely some Ajax for when loading the actual things.
Also another cool feature could be choosing to go for names or just turn off the thumbnails in the main area (I know sounds counter productive, but when you’ve got loads of albums the title is more telling I guess?).
khaled—I’ll look at WP admin panel integration. I know it’s possible with a plugin, so I think it’d be a great feature. I could add sidebar widgets into the plugin as well.
Definately something for a much later release though. I’ll get the RSS and Ajax for the first release though.
And turning off thumbnails for the album list is all your choice in the template.
Flip—that’s all possible with the templates. It should be easy to convert any WP theme to a ZP theme—just take out the WP functions and replace with ZP functions.
It will look perfectly integrated with the style of your site. At the same time though, I prefer a simpler and separate look for my photo pages, which is just as easily done.
in regards to the admininstration aspect, is it going to be possible to allow multiple, unique users? this way, more than one person would be able to use the same website to have their own individual photoalbum that they can update and edit themselves. i am working on developing my site (thepaperonline.org) to include photoalbums for multiple people, and such a feature would make zenphoto the perfect solution for me. forget using flickr, this would make my day!
This looks really good.
It would be wonderfull to have such a nice Gallery integrated into Mambo (www.mamboserver.com ) as a component. Maybe someone will do that once the code is released (will that be GPL, or what do you envision?). Thanks for your work on this.
And I agree with timothy’s comment, user galleries are a nice feature (at least for a CMS such as Mambo).
Joe
It will definately be GPL at some point, but like I said, I’d like to get it the way I want it without much outside coding support first.
My focus on this project is simplicity and usability. For that reason, I’m making it do one thing really well—display photos from a single user on a single web site. Nice and simple. Once I release the source and have a final product, I can start thinking about ways to extend it beyond that framework while keeping good simplicity and usability standards.
I just took a look at Mambo though, and you’re right, it does look like a nice system. I’ll put it on the list and consider it once I have a good product.
Looks pretty good, just wondering if there would be a way to intergrate with picasa.
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
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