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No Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: RS232 on October 05, 2005, 11:05:51 am

Title: Working with coppermine on your laptop
Post by: RS232 on October 05, 2005, 11:05:51 am: I found this very interestin thread:
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=6190.0

How cool would it be to be able to use coppermine locally on your PC/Laptop to show your pictures?
Of course this requires Apace+PHP+Mysql on your windowsXP machine, but there are many
"ready to go" packages out there fro this.
Let's leave the input/output synchronization feature for the future, but just have an easy function to "export"
the acutal database+pictures from the server installation to a stand-alone installation would be IMO excellent.
And this could also be smart way to backup coppermine.

What do you think?
rs232
Title: Re: Working with coppermine on your laptop
Post by: artistsinhawaii on October 05, 2005, 11:11:22 am: I pretty much do this with my FTP software.

The only other thing I have to do is export my database as an sql file and import it into my laptop/desktop backup setups.

You could also create a flat Html file backup using offline readers (your permissions would have to be set to 777 all the way around while you do this so advisably you would do this from your local setup). It would take forever and day if your website contained a lot of images, but then you could stick the offline copy onto a DVD or CD depending on the size.

Dennis
Title: Re: Working with coppermine on your laptop
Post by: RS232 on October 05, 2005, 11:40:29 am: Actually the Offline reader idea is nto bad at all, I should try it out!
Are you able to browse the site exactly as you do online?

Thanks
rs232
Title: Re: Working with coppermine on your laptop
Post by: Stramm on October 05, 2005, 11:56:56 am: there aren't that many preconfigured apache/php/mysql packages for windows at all. If you don't consider packages that haven't updated for some time then only two are left. EasyPHP and Xampp

Xampp has more whistles and bells, easyphp is setup in no time and working smooth. Sure you can write a synchro tool and actually I've though about that already. Shouldn't be to complex but it's a typical mod/ plugin.

For exporting the db it's better to use external tools. This is (depending on db size) not just done with a few lines of code. In the sticky thread on this board you can find that suggestion http://www.mysqldumper.de/en/index.php

To backup your images (on nix systems) just tar them and download them using ftp. A lil solution you'll find on the mods board
Title: Re: Working with coppermine on your laptop
Post by: artistsinhawaii on October 05, 2005, 10:37:29 pm: Quote from: RS232 on October 05, 2005, 11:40:29 am
Actually the Offline reader idea is nto bad at all, I should try it out!
Are you able to browse the site exactly as you do online?

Thanks
rs232

Pretty much so, I had to tweak it a bit .. but it did the job. I used Webreaper.
But do it off your localserver setup. It takes way too long doing off of a webhost and your bandwidth use shoots up.

Dennis
Title: Re: Working with coppermine on your laptop
Post by: Joachim Müller on October 06, 2005, 08:06:14 am: I agree that this would be nice, but the code needed to sync the online version on your live webpage and the offline version on your local box won't go into coppermine's core code, as only a few users will find it useful. As Dennis suggested, this could be done with a mod/plugin. Marking this thread as "turned down", but don't get disappointed: a contribution of such a mod/plugin would be welcome.