I have not followed the forum in detail over the past weeks, so I am not sure if that has been requested before... but if you ever include an registration feature, an account managment subsystem or however you wanna call it, I would like to see one additional feature with that:
The possibility to let a visitor enter an optional keyword upon account creation (or enter it in the users account managment screen for existing accounts). -> The possibility to create a usergroup with access to a certain part of the gallery, which is linked to one or more keywords.
People who enter a keyword automatically gain membership to that linked usergroup, thus gaining the included permissions. (which then would "enable" a certain gallery for being visible and browseable)
That way, I could hand out little cards with my URL and a keyword to people, which they could then enter and see exactly the gallery of the event where they got the keyword. code. Password. whatever.
This is the best way to make sure only the parents and people involved to kids sports events I shoot pictures of, gain access to the specific gallery.
Also I don ´t want EVERYONE browsing the nude pics of my dog!
Of course you can simply set a password for a gallery. This however means you had to make all galleries viewable or hand out cryptic URLs and username and password...but I think not being visible is a big part of an effective protection. Also the usergroup integration would make it possible to inform only those who might be interested via email when a certain gallery changes. And it allows me to see if (and how many) people make use of the offered services, sometimes its a waste of time and you dont even realize it
anyhoo...
I hope I was able to thoroughly explain what I am asking for
Have Fun!
-Daniel
