I'm using Coppermine in something of a unique way and would like to request some assistance in customizing the way it works and looks. These also might prove to be features to add to future versions.
I work for a non-profit medical journal and we've just brought the hosting duties in-house (site:
www.thejns-net.org). The way I am going to use Coppermine is as the image gallery for all the articles. Each Journal will be its own category with each volume as a sub-category. Every article will have its own album. See (Be forewarned -- graphic images):
http://www.thejns-net.org/shared/coppermine/Only I (or whoever is the web person) will be adding images.
The customized features that I would like are:
1 - Since I am using the Batch Add function to add to albums, once I have added the images to an album I would like to be able to lock or close that album so that it doesn't appear on the pull-down menu in the batch add process. This will eliminate my having to scroll through dozens (eventually hundreds) of albums.
Would it be possible for me to add a field "closed" to the albums table and add some query into the php to only put non-closed albums into the pull-down menu? I'm still pretty inexperienced with php so I didn't want to muck about too much.
2 - In viewing the albums, there is the option of displaying or not displaying the description for the images. I want to show the descriptions, but some of them get very long:
http://www.thejns-net.org/shared/coppermine/thumbnails.php?album=44What would be ideal would be to have the option to show the description but limit what is shown to a specified limit (100 or 200 characters, or whatever). Any suggestions on coding this in?
Thanks for your help on this!