@Fabri
For my girlfriend, I’m creating a website for digital scrap booking with an easy to use CMS as portal (WB), and behind it, a forum (SMF), shop (osCommerce), and photo gallery. The forum, shop and gallery should be bridged. Looking for available photo galleries and experiences of users, Coppermine seemed to be the best choice. I already started implementing Coppermine, and I really like this program, so no way I will switch to an other program. I am asked if it is possible to change the way of navigating through the categories and albums, and as an example, the site of oscraps was shown to me. Well it seems that oscraps is using Photopost. I don’t know if this way of navigation tree is standard for Photopost, or it is an adaptation of the code, but I definitely don’t want to use Photopost but stick to Coppermine. If Coppermine hasn’t got a navigation tree as default feature and I really want to use Coppermine, I have to write a piece of code for this. Navigating is only a small piece of all the great thing of Coppermine that I really like. I have lots of experiences with osCommerce so I can bend it any way I like. Coppermine is brand new for me, so for some features I don’t know if it is already there (even not by struggling through the manual and searching through this forum), and if not, how to build in, in a mannerly way so it is still the Coppermine way.
So as you can see, my question is really Coppermine related.
@phill104
I have seen all themes displayed in the demo photo gallery on this site, and also a lot of galleries from other users in the topic you mentioned, but no one has the way of navigation I am looking for. Some of them are getting there a little bit. In the gallery box on top, a list of galleries is shown, without a thumbnail. Clicking one will show a list of albums/categories without thumbnails, and so on. I want to show the categories with its categories/albums, all in one list. This is also known as a category tree. This brings more rest into the site. Don’t know if this is the right word for it. In Dutch we would say that it bring more quietness.
If I make a mock up of the demo gallery, written the way I would like to have, it would look like this:
-nature
*animals
*plants
-coppermine screen shots
*admin screenshot
+admin tools
+album manager
+user manager
+batch-add
+version check
*themes that come with coppermine
*user-contributed themes
-password-protection
-multimedia
*archives
*audio
*documents
*exotic image formats
*video
*exotic image formats
-user galleries
In my case, the list wouldn’t be that long, so less messy. In case of such a long list, folders with subfolders in should be closed and opened by selecting. This way it looks more like navigating through a shop.
So this is what I want to achieve.
It is getting clearer to me by the minute how I should do this. I shouldn’t use albums without a category anymore, but create one category, e.g. called HeadCategorie. In it, all albums that normally would be placed under “album without category”, and al categories with albums in it. So don’t use “albums without categories” anymore. This way, in the admin I can order everything the way I like. After this, I need to write a new function in index.php to create the category/album tree instead of the function list_cat_albums, and a function in themes.inc.php to display this tree in instead of the function theme_display_list_cat.
I’m not sure if my PHP knowledge for achieving this is good enough, but with my experience of osCommerce, that is using this kind of tree, I really want to give it a shot.
If you think I am trying to achieve this the wrong way, please feel free to correct me.