So i've started work on the coppermine integration with community builder, and would like some input with features you would like to see concerning community builder. Please keep in mind, or look up all the features already available in coppermine 1.4.x before posting at coppermine.sf.net .

Features I already have made / planned:

• Display Albums, Favorites, Top Rated, Random Images etc...on profile
• Choose coppermine thumb image as avatar
• Selectable number of rows / colums
• Admin disapproval of images

NEWLY ADDED FEATURES FROM SUGGESTIONS: (don't waste any more posts agreeing about or resuggesting these)

• -declined- Auto Create "Users First Album" upon registration (note to self: use onAfterUserConfirm event for creating gallery, and onAfterDeleteUser for removing users pics) - may be dropped for below option or made optional in config, could create huge excess of empty galleries and make navigation difficult
• Put "Create New Album" link if no albums exist in tab
• "latest comments" tab showing X characters of X number of latest comments in gallery (linked)

Heres a teaser from a couple hours I worked on yesterday:


Please keep on topic, and be descriptive.

Regards,
Todd

Post edited by: todd, at: 2006/01/02 05:26

Post edited by: todd, at: 2006/02/02 10:57

Hi Todd,

First of all welcome, great to see you made it

Second: Wow you already have a great and very complete sounding feature list there!!

As for further feature requests: besides having admins able to moderate/delete, i would like to have that 'admin' group be called a 'moderator' group, and have it admin selectable (say author group and up, or something)

The following requests and issues are not really feasible since they need coppermine editing wich has nothing to do with your bridge nor the plugin you will create but i wanna mention them anyway:

I edited zoom, to let zoom create the album for the user automaticly, since they are mostly blond and clueless...
In fact i present only one button, 'upload', the album and corresponding directory on disc will be created so they just have a browse and upload button available and everyone can do it. Later i even added a 5mb discspace limitation and a colorful graphical display of discspace left. (imported great code from mod_progress for this )
Later when some users already had an album, I re-enabled the ability to create a title for an uploaded file, and to edit this title after upload. Some users requested this feature co it was troublesome to edit their filenames on disc before the upload.

These are all the features currently in operation and it seems to be functioning perfect from a users perspective.
In short: I would love to see user albums be created automaticly and have admin selectable discspace limitation.

The coppermine geeks have created many features over time that added to the relative complexity of the gallery, im forced to be focused on enduser friendlyness and would like to stripdown 'complexity' (relatively speaking, sigh) as much as possible.

Another coppermine thing: I post new albums as 'admin' of events that the users actually participated in. So many users are actually on those pics. it would be cool if they could just click to get that pic placed on their own personal album.

Regards,
~Trail.

edit: made this thread sticky.

Post edited by: Trail, at: 2005/12/12 11:58

Looking and sounding FANTASTIC Todd! Can't wait for this.

As Trail said, the ability for an album to be auto-created (based upon their username when they create an account on the site) would certainly be a nice little feature.

As simplicity goes, Coppermine does require some getting used to for the less knowledgable user who comes to the site, I can see this being a bit of a turnoff for alot of people (which has actually been evident on my site after installing your bridge, quite a few who wanted a gallery havent made one yet simply because it seems a little complex for them)...This is of course not your bridge but the Coppermine system.

If in some way a gallery could be auto-created and connected to their profile straight off the bat, that would be great. If this was possible, I am not sure if it would be possible for it to be applied to existing members?

However, the features you listed already encompass everything I was looking for in this plugin, just the above suggestion would be a nice little touch!

Post edited by: edenapple, at: 2005/12/13 01:03

I agree with the above two posts -- auto creation of the folder would be a requirement -- the easier the better, in my opinion, for my users.

I assume that the profile link within the coppermine interface can be easily made to go to the CB profile page?

That would be a coppermine modification through themes.inc.php, but I could add that easily enough as A optional setting / feature to my CoppermineVis component once I release this.