Jørn Wildt

Hi I'm looking for a bit of advice here.

I'm looking for a solution that let's users submit an photoalbum to a specific category, where the admin has to approve it before the album is published. Users should be able to edit their album afterwards, which then will have to be approved by an admin again. (hmm dejavue -> my first post here:) : http://www.elfisk.dk/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=141#pid )

Currently I'm using gallery(gallery.menalto.com) for this task, which it barely manages to do. Gallery isn't suited for this and is also lacking a "proper" postnuke integration (regarding users).

I've been evaluating Photoshare for this task, but the part missing there is the "workflow" pagesetter has built in. I also don't know what Jorn's exact plans are for the future of photoshare... (pnMedia / pnUpper?)

I'm getting pretty handy at pagesetter, so I should be able to make some sort of gallery in pagesetter with workflow and all that , but then all the photoshare functionality is missing... (f.e. rotating images).

Second part I'll have to think about is scalability / performance. Currently on my site users have submitted nearly 4.000 pictures, and daily I get about 3.000 unique visitors using the site extensively. I don't think using pagesetter as a gallery will be the way to go because of serverload / performance due to the dynamic tables.

So I guess I'm looking for more integration between pagesetter / photoshare. Anyone with some suggestions for this? I think the best solution is Photoshare, using pagesetter's workflows,
reference: http://www.elfisk.dk/modules.php?op=modload&name=XForum&file=viewthread&tid=1648#pid

(the site i'm talking about is non-profit, and mainly about breastcancer).

[Edited on 9/7/2005 by moremojo]

I have come to this crossroads as well. Since I needed the permission system of PG, and PG had an upload feature and image type, I basically am using it as a gallery for users. I believe Photoshare can be rewritten in Pagesetter. An album can be a publication, each photo in the album may also be a publication, thereby a 1-to-many relationship. The photo would have properties that one may search on. The album template may be a gallery, thumbnails, slideshow, etc. . I am using the PG API to achieve all of this. The only thing I need to do now is add to the publist() function or create a pagesetter_userapi_publistjoin() function that will join publications, thereby, allowing an album pub to contain photo pubs. As of now, I first get the album pub, I then filter the photos pub with the album ID assigned in each photo pub. I am thinking to create a structure similar to filterSet that contains the instructions on how to join one pub with another. This structure can then be passed to publist() which would then perform a left join with the given criteria.


--Joe