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Of course this would be an interesting feature. How exactly would you have it though? 50 latest pictures in all folders? 50 latest pictures from a single folder? More? Less? 3 last pictures from anywhere? Display in a slideshow or just output as thumbnails? This process is a bit complicated since Imagevue uses a physical folder structure to mirror the content.

How would we identify "latest images" though ... By upload date (created on server), or check the date inside the image meta data? Since Imagevue is physical, this is the tricky part and would need to be figured out before proceeding with such a feature.

Thanks.

Power pack adds this functionality I think http://phillip.com.pl/powerpack/

andreamarucci wrote:I know that Powerpack add this but I'd prefer to have everything in the core. Also PP need MySQL that I don't have in my gallery's hosting...

This is somewhat related. Imagevue by core, is a physical gallery that simply reflects the files+structure of your folders. Adding a "latest images" module kinda needs a DB to handle/store the latest additions ... If not, it would need to be Imagevue somehow for each visit going though all your images, and checking for upload date on all images within a certain threshold, and then returning an XML. This would not work technically on servers that have more than only a few folders, so it would need to be a process run intermittently from the admin, and then stores the data in XML ... slightly bad practice, and therefore should really be part of a database controlled environment. We will keep it in our notes!

Sorry no

I don't think in the current version cascade, but perhaps for a brand new html-based gallery we may be planning in the not-so-distant future.