[Project] Simple Gallery
What I am really missing is a simple, fast, elegant gallery for ElkArte. It would be great to have one. I lack of programming skills, but I am great in design and building an UI. So the question is:
Is there a guy (or maybe two, or perhaps a girl) who wants to start this project with me, creating the first and of course the best free gallery for ElkArte?
Re: [Project] Simple Gallery
Reply #2 –
Indeed this is something that would really benefit the project!
All of the ones (current gallery's) that one could start with and "port" have special licenses so can't really be used. Then again starting off fresh with a basic gallery system may be less work than porting something existing.
Perhaps starting off with an outline of the functionality you would like in the system would help to scope the initial project?
Re: [Project] Simple Gallery
Reply #6 –
A while ago, I wrote a very simple gallery for SMF, in fact it was build thinking already at ElkArte.
It is very simple, it uses an "hidden" board, each topic is an image, the first message acts as description of the image, while the replies are the comments.
There are categories, but without hierarchy, just one level.
It required few "tricks", mainly for the linking .
Massupload was not implemented.
After I finished it I've been a bit unsure about publishing and/or even continue the development (in fact it's about a year I do not touch that code), mainly because I felt it was too much integrated into the forum... I mean that for example "comments" to images were appearing into the "new posts" and "unread replies", that could or could not be a wanted feature.
Being closely integrated into the forum makes anything available to the forum (likes, quoting, moderation, etc.) available on the gallery as well. And again that could be a plus or a minus depending on how the owner want to use the gallery.
From time to time I think I spend too much time thinking... lol