Ok after asking a question in another thread and being told I need to upgrade I’d like to ask some other questions to try and streamline my current configuration, since I’m basically re-installing anyway.
I currently have 2 coppermine galleries. There is no other integration; I don’t have any forum or anything like that installed on either gallery. The galleries are on completely different domains, lets say x.com and y.com. They have completely independent mysql, everything. However about 70% of the pictures overlap, what I mean is that they have about 70% of the same pictures. Currently they pictures are uploaded to both directories. What I’d like to know is if I can install 2 galleries on different domains with separate mysql and still share the albums directory. If I could modify the code so I could have a main directory /main and then have /main/x.com and /main/y.com. Could I then modify the code to have the album directory simply be /main/albums. 99% of the pictures on my sites are uploaded through ftp for batch addition.
This would save me a lot of space this much I know. However I’m also hoping to save some processing time when I batch add, hopefully the thumbnails would be able to be shared, as well as the mid sized photos.
I do have one other question, can I run a script in the Category description or album description fields? My sites are 100% family photo albums, as such many of the categories are dedicated to pictures of a single person. I’d like to run an active age script in the description field so that it gives those persons current age. If it’s possible I’ll make it in javascript or php.