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Is Coppermine the program I need?
« on: September 12, 2004, 11:53:06 pm »

I'm working on a comprehensive extended-family webpage, and I want family members to be able to upload pictures they have taken or had scanned without knowing much if anything about file sizes or uploading in general.  I've read through the Coppermine features, but I can't find information regarding image optimization upon upload.  The key feature I need is for users to be able to dump their 5 megapixel camera pics in without caring if they're huge, and have them reduced accordingly en-route to the server before they're saved so they don't take up a ton of webspace.

Is this a feature supported by Coppermine?

Thanks all.
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Re: Is Coppermine the program I need?
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2004, 12:12:29 am »

The current version doesn't support automatic image resizing, but the next version will.  You can take a look at the alpha builds of 1.4.0 by clicking on the Project link at the top of this page - but bear in mind there is no support for this at all.
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Re: Is Coppermine the program I need?
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2004, 12:15:06 am »

at the moment the only thing that will do this is using the xp_publish facility.  This of course needs the user to be using windoze xp.

If they do, tell them to browse to www.yoursite.com/copermine/xp_publish.php and follow the instructions.  This allows them to resize all the images to set sizes.

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Re: Is Coppermine the program I need?
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2004, 01:44:18 am »

Thanks.  I'll have to check around further then.
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Re: Is Coppermine the program I need?
« Reply #4 on: September 19, 2004, 12:06:38 pm »

at the moment the only thing that will do this is using the xp_publish facility.  This of course needs the user to be using windoze xp.

If they do, tell them to browse to www.yoursite.com/copermine/xp_publish.php and follow the instructions.  This allows them to resize all the images to set sizes.



wow!!! That solved a lot of problems for my members, cheers!!!
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Re: Is Coppermine the program I need?
« Reply #5 on: September 23, 2004, 09:39:58 am »

XP Publish is wonderful for the inexperienced user. I don't use it myself, but I toyed with it to see how it worked and it seemed to work pretty well. Seems that it's an overlooked feature.
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Re: Is Coppermine the program I need?
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2004, 10:35:32 pm »

at the moment the only thing that will do this is using the xp_publish facility.  This of course needs the user to be using windoze xp.

If they do, tell them to browse to www.yoursite.com/copermine/xp_publish.php and follow the instructions.  This allows them to resize all the images to set sizes.



Ah, you lost me there, I've been thinking to get Coppermine. Have large raw digital photos, a web site, with php, and WXP here at home. In looking at my XP publish app how does this URL path www.yoursite.com/copermine/xp_publish.php work? Are you saying to FTP the XP Publish app to the web site? Please explain this to me, as I am still in the newbie stage. Thanks so much, Paulo
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Re: Is Coppermine the program I need?
« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2004, 10:58:41 pm »

Hi Paolo,

no, the xp-publish is a facility to allow your users to upload multiple files to the gallery in one go, and since we added this ability for all users now, is not so important.

You, as the gallery owner, should use ftp to upload your pics, into a directory set up you create in the albums folder in the coppermine directory.

Raw files are not suitablefor upload to the web, as neither IM nor GD can deal with them, and as far as I know, no browser will display them.  You need to use your desktop app to create jpeg or png copies for use on the web.

Once you have coppermine installed, your users can browse to ...../xp_publish.php and will receive a registry file and instructions of how to use it, simply by following the xp wizard.  They can then use windows xp to publish files directly to your site.
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