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eissap · 25 Dec 2008, 07:56

First of all congrats with the release of the final version.

Second: i'm still missing two important features.
Is there any change an sort function on exif date will be made in the near feature ?
There are several topics on sorting on exif date and i have seen your answer about slowing down the server. but would't it be a good idea to put the sort in the folder.xml so this will speed up the loading time ?

third:Will there be a way to password protect a folder ?

Merry Christmas and for now a happy new year!

greets eissap

PhotoFolio · 25 Dec 2008, 10:29

My work around for missing exif date sorting feature is to include the exif date in the file name when I generate the JPEGs from my RAWs (this can easily be done with Photoshop LightRoom) and then ask for dd sort.

For password protection, last V2 updatelog includes "# basic auth added - for .htaccess authorization " ... maybe this answers your need (I'll check it as I need it too

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26 Dec 2008, 01:17

We still intend on integrating password protection scheme, but it is not included for this release. We have been working from the inside and out, and we needed to launch non-beta.

EXIF sorting, we will have to consider how can be done. Yes it can be integrated into folderdata.xml somehow, but folderdata.xml isn't loaded directly into the gallery as data is still created realtime by PHP. We will have to look into this ...

Hotlips · 28 Dec 2008, 03:31

I just want to second what eissap said earlier. To have Imagevue make use of the EXIF information would open up a world of possibilities, like date sorting but also sorting on camera (we who use more then one love this), ISO, etc etc. I know it prolly a bitch to pull off with a DB-less system, but it would send a clear declaration of intent to the (semi) professional photographers out there.

I would not mind if EXIF sorting was handled in the same manner as the manual admin page thumbnail creation. Just to have the ability to sort on it IF I wanted would be so cool.

eissap asks about folder security. I have been waiting so long for this feature in IV. Not so much for the fear of actually protecting my images but rather to be able to maintain a public and private section in the portfolio. With .htaccess, robot.txt files and turning off functions such as download, popup, email and other features that reveal the true image location we would at least be able to have both public and private sections without giving it all away.

Once again, a big thank you for X2 and happy holidays

eissap · 29 Dec 2008, 04:35

In the mean time if have created a simple exif script which will extract the exif generated time and rename each photo according to this time. but keeps it's original name as well. this way when imagevue is ready to sort on exif you can just strip the name(time/date) off.

hope this helps others as well.

#! /usr/local/bin/bash

for i in *.JPG; do
	create_date=`exiftime "$i" 2>&1 | grep -i image\ generated | cut -d" " -f3 | sed -e s/:/-/g`
	create_time=`exiftime "$i" 2>&1 | grep -i image\ generated | cut -d" " -f4 | sed -e s/:/-/g`
	if [ "$create_date" == "" ]; then
		echo -e "SKIPPING IMAGE $i \\t\\t\\t [NO EXIF DATA FOUND]"
		continue
	fi
	echo -n Processing Image $i Created on $create_date at $create_time
	do_rename=$( echo $i | sed -e 's/\(.*\)/mv "&" "'$create_date'_'$create_time'_\1"/g'|sh)
	echo -e \\t\[DONE\]
done

example:

IMG_999.jpg
2008-12-10_14-29-02_IMG_999.jpg

feel free to adjust it to your needs.

Could somebody explain me how to use the password feature ?

greetings
Eissap

Nick · 29 Dec 2008, 06:57

O_O cool!

eissap · 29 Dec 2008, 07:27

btw to remove the characters later just type in the following:

for i in `ls *.JPG`; do old=${i}; new=`echo ${i} | cut -f3-10 -d'_'`; mv ${old} ${new}; done

after that recreate the thumbs again.
ps: not tested fully.

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