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One of the features I'd interested in is the possibility to have the latest pictures uploaded in the home page (the page you land when you enter the gallery). I've seen that it's possible to do that through powerpack but I'm asking if it's possible to do without using any addon.

With such a feature all the users can see the latest uploaded pictures as soon as they enter the gallery and not just browsing it...

Thanks!

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.

I mentioned this one since before Imagevue I've used Coppermine and I've noticed that this feature was always appreciated by my users.

I would like to have an option to display the latest added pictures from anywhere and maybe this option can have a parameter so that the admin can input, for example, the number of pictures he want or let Imagevuex display as much pictures as they fit the visitor's screen resolution (something like what happen now in the galleries).

The other option could be to display a slideshow or just the thumbnails.

I think that if you add it could be interesting for everyone...

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/

mjau-mjau wrote: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.

By upload date for sure. If I've an old picture that I've not made available in the gallery, this pic is new for the users browsing my gallery also if the pic is "old" by date taken.

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...

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!

Ok I've not imagined the technical issues but you're right. I'll think about having a database to handle these things eventually. Also I'd prefer to have such thing in the core of IV instead of having an external mod...

Thanks!

Hi boss, any news about this topic?

Sorry no

No problems. Do you plan to include it in one of the future IV versions?

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.