I've been using coppermine for 2 days now, and must stay that it's gotten a lot of plusses in my book so far. Installation wise it was a dream, guiding me to the install script, and then disabling the script by itself once I'd finished setting it up.. All in all, perfect : )
Down to the usage part, here I've hit some dead ends where I thought I was on a roll, and I thought that my giving you some feedback, maybe future users would have an even easier time of it. So I've written down some of the things that have bugged me and some of the ideas I've had that I think would make the gallery even better.
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Ability to apply a different for config option "The content of the main page" for different categories:
example: For main page I'd use "Latest additions", but for "my trip to Iceland" I'd use "Random Pics".
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Ability to apply user rights to categories.
2 Ideas:
1.(Categories would have a "Rights" setting of their own, like albums)
2.(Categories would be hidden if containing no albums to which the user had access) <- Preferable
example: From main page the category "Sex pics" would not be visible to the world : )
example2: "Personal" category visible only to "registered", "Public" to "all".
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Ability to add albums inside other albums..
example:
I have pictures from a trip. Some are general shots of random stuff, some are from a specific town I've spent some time in.
Here it would be nice to have an album for the general pictures, which in turn held sub-folders with shots from the different towns, categorized by name.
This would allow me to have a category called "Travelling Pictures", which contained albums called "Iceland - 2004", "Spain - 2005" etc.. These would in turn hold sub-albums containing pics from specific locations.
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Ability to allow different users to set up their preferred language in their "My Profile" settings
example: I don't allow users to register, but when adding them, I'd set their default language as well.
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I hope this can be useful to you guys (the developers)
- Celian