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2noame
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Joined: 19 Nov 2008, 22:54

Possible to setup multiple folders per directory?

19 Nov 2008, 23:19

I'm sorry if this has been asked and answered elsewhere, but I couldn't find it. I'm looking to use this for my commercial site, and am hoping I can do so without being forced to change around my current directory structures, which are huge.

Here's my question. So I currently have all my content organized into six different content directories, and have over 1000 galleries in total accessing each of these folders using cgi scripting. I love your menu system and would like to give people alphabet choices to work through the submenus. For example maybe the first level of menus would be A through E, F through J, K through O, P through T, U through Z. Then the second level would be the individual letters, then the third level would be the actual names, or maybe just A-Z from the get go.

So can many of these menu folders point to only a portion of the files in a single physical directory? Like if I have Name 1 and Name 2 and Name 3, can the pics for each of those names be in a single content folder, or do they have to be in three physically distinct subfolders?

Right now it seems to me that if I buy this software, it will create menu items named Content 1, Content 2, Content 3, etc. and each of those will have thousands of pics in them without my ability to organize any of it. And that just won't do for me. So please correct me if I'm wrong.

Thank you.
 
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mjau-mjau
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Joined: 30 Sep 2006, 03:37

21 Nov 2008, 03:30

Unfortunately, I doubt imagevue can do what you ask. Unlike many other galleries that run from databases, Imagevue is purely based on physical folders. That means the menu simply reflects the structure of folder and the images within.

Many people enjoy this advantage, but there are of course a few disadvantages also to not using a database.

The "organizing" is done physically, meaning by actually moving files and folders around.