Photo Organizer

We need to enforce that rule to prevent the DB from going nuts.

Either via SQL:

1) Trigger to test that parent != id
2) the (folders|albums)_and_sub(folders|albums) function needs to abort if it sees it

or in PHP:

3) Test the values in the php pages [[ (album|folder).(add|edit).2.php ]] and kick back an error.

I don't think there's another way to mangle things.

This can result in a DoS.

It's possible that you might not have a given piece of equipment (eg lens or body) any more, so add a flag to the equipment tables to have them ignore certian rows.

(This is precipitated by one of my lenses being broken in two; I plan to buy an identical replacement, but it'll have a different serial number...)

It doesn't do any harm, it just bugs if it happens.

If you fill in user name and password and then realize, you don't want the preset language... Switching to another language clears out user name and password and you have to write them again.

Of course, this won't happen often to a new user because it trains to look first after the language, but... I would still call it a bug, even if not really major.

Rock on
Eckhard

In tab My Folders or My Datebook, logged in user name displayed instead of owner user name under 'I am a client of the following users', nevertheless the link is correct. Here is my quick and dirty solution.

--- include/contacts.php.orig
+++ include/contacts.php
@@ -117,7 +117,8 @@
$owner = "";
}

- $all_subscribed_users = pg_query($database, " select identifier, users, last_name, first_name, date_of_creation, value from view_client where client='$my_user_id' and status!='4' $owner ");
+ $all_subscribed_users = pg_query($database, " select view_client.identifier, view_client.users, view_contact_info.last_name, view_contact_info.first_name, view_client.date_of_creation, view_client.value from view_client, view_contact_info where view_client.client='$my_user_id' and view_client.users=view_contact_info.identifier and status!='4' $owner ");
$num_of_subscribed_users = pg_num_rows($all_subscribed_users);

if ($num_of_subscribed_users) {

Only location in advanced text is not work, others works fine.

I can't find the meaning of ||| by google. But I change ||| to || in file search.text.advanced.php at line 172

$sql_search_string['location'] = build_sql_search_string($keywords['location'], "(view_location.place||view_location.city||view_location.state||view_location.country)");

and change view_location all columns NULL value (if any) to '' by sql command, then it seems work.

Here is the sql command to change view_location

create view view_location as
select location.identifier, location.place, location.city,
COALESCE ( (select value from state where state.identifier=location.state), '' ) as state,
(select value from country where country.identifier=location.country) as country,
users, last_modified_date,
latitude, longitude, private
from location;

Some programs like Raw Therapee creates a file to store all metadata to convert a raw file to a jpg file. To repeat the convert process (with or without slightly differences) it would be nice if I'm able to store such metadata with variants at the side of the original picture.

From other programs that storing data in a database, it would be possible to read out the data from the DB and storing metadata into xml-files and backwards.

Currently the RAW settings are shared across all images. It would be nice if each image would contain with it the settings used to process the image. The problem is that the decoder often has defaults which change over time, and re-generating the same image can result in differences.

Right now there are three permissions -- public, private, and "protected", which equates to "public only to all of my clients"

This is pretty lousy; I can certianly envision scenarios where you'd want a client to only see stuff that's specific to that client. To do this now, you have to create separate accounts and mark clients for those specific accounts.

I'd like to see a more generic hierarchical user/group model. Only the photo owner can make changes to their images, but the permission model would break down as follows:

Permissions would be granted on a per-group basis, and individual users can be members of various groups. "Guest" access would just be another group, and would default to assigned.

A permission is inherited; so if "guest" is granted access to the top-level folder, they would be allowed to see everything below it unless a more restrictive permission was specified. This is sort of similar to unix permissions with the "sticky bit" turned on.

This gets a little tricky when talking about folders vs albums, as a user may not be allowed to browse the folder, but the image could be included in a public album. When viewing the image from the folder perspective, it would be disallowed, but from the album perspective, it would be allowed.

EDIT: see http://po.shaftnet.org/new_permission_model

Most database results are being indexed by position in a fixed array, rather than by column name. This may be slightly faster, but is hell to program around, especially when there can be twenty fields being returned.

* Convert all fetch_row() calls to fetch_assoc()

Secondly, using prepared statements would make the code a lot cleaner and eliminate the need to escape strings being passed in to the database. Unfortunately, this may require PHP 5.1 to pull off, depending on the maturity of the postgres bindings for earlier versions.

* Use prepared statements and SQL variables instead of inlined data.

RE-do the advanced search so it's more useful -- allow any field to be searched, not just title, caption, etc etc... then build the query on the fly. This is going to be complicated, but necessary...

What we have now is a decent start, but it needs a backand (and instructions for making it all click together)

The eventual goal is to let us "search for images like this one" and have it JustWork(tm).

Right now GNU GIFT (http://www.gnu.org/software/gift/) looks like the best bet as a backend; I just need to figure out how to make it all work.

Note that we really need search result caching to make this usable with a large image database.

instead of <location id="23" />, we should say something like: <location id="23" name="downtown Nowhere, USA" />

for all non-textual datatypes.

Otherwise, we need to export the database tables for these values to mean anything, and this isn't currently possible.

1) Allow per-folder watermarks.
2) When "regenerating thumbnails" on bulk update, allow:
- existing watermark
- remove watermark
- new watermark
3) When performing an image rotation, preserve the existing watermarks.

Adding support for PTLens would be really nice -- we could automagically correct lens distortion etc as part of the image generation workflow.

PTLens needs the camera and lens model and the focal length to work properly.

I think it can use EXIF data directly.

it would ease handling, if one could see the yet defined keywords: useless creation according to misspelling (landscape versus landscapes) or different words for the same meaning.

right now "view counts" are part of the "photo" table.

It might be beneficial to split stats to a separate table.. we can track additional fields (views vs downloads vs ??) and also track it for each photo version etc.

There is no easy way to add/edit the list of film format sizes appart from editing the database (or using a tool like phpPgAdmin). It would be nice and IMO simple to implement a way to add/edit a Film size option.

I capture the majority of photos on film, process it myself, print or scan it myself. A lot of people my do the same. I would like to see an option to note down the way I developed the film. IMO it would be best done in the following fashion:

have a table with development instructions (could have fields like: "id"?, "name", "developer", "dillution", "time", "agitation", "temperature", "notes"). The editing would be done in a similar way as for locations. This info would than be linked (through the id field?) as a technical informaion for the photo.

If there was the possibility to enter these information, I would not have to have a separate database/excel sheets noting this down.

Thanks a lot

Jiri

We already copy over exif metadata to the preview images (#163) but we really need an explicit copyright notice and also a URL.

It would be nice to know at a glance whether or not we have a model release for a given person in a given photo.

releases are usually obtained in relation to specific events, so this should tie into the datebook.

To avoid having to do a page load/refresh for each of the sub-photo tabs (ie overview, technical, ratings, etc)

Eventually, I'd love to see the various sub-pages (eg rating.add/del/edit) also become "tabs" of the same master page; the majority of the code (and markup) on each page is duplicated. This may require us to use AJAX-type techniques however.

I'd still prefer basic photo navigation to be okay without javascript enabled.

it would be nice if we could show the disk usage for a given album/folder, including all of its subfolders.

Now that we have the files and their sizes stored in the database, this should be easy enough.

for example, folder #602 contains 363 images, taking up 2133MB of disk space.

http://www.sai.msu.su/~megera/wiki/Tsearch_V2_Readme

It's supposedly been part of the "core contrib" postgresql stuff since v7.4

This would let us perform a search on specific keywords across *all* indexed fields simultaneously.

Right now, it's:

thumb = raw -> scale -> colorspace (+extras) -> sharpen
prev = raw-> scale -> colorspace (+extras) -> sharpen -> watermark

IT would be REALLY nice if we could create customized processing paths; that is to say:

type_1 = raw -> scale -> b&w -> normalize -> sharpen
type_2 = raw -> scale -> add_border, add_text -> sharpen

This could either be on-demand, or automatic on uploads.

This way individual versions and scaled resolutions can be given appropriate rights; If we have the individual files with fine-grained permissions, then we can do away with the 'original' field altogether, and the 'access' field can be inferred from these settings (via a DB stored procedure)

The original can be granted to be 'private' or 'protected', for example, while the watermarked preview is 'public', the non-watermarked preview is 'protected', and the thumbnail is 'public'.

If we have the individual files with fine-grained permissions, then we can do away with the 'original' field altogether.

If the viewer can access the thumbnails, then they can see the image on the browser list. If the viewer can access *any* of the preview images, the thumb links to the best-quality preview image. (ie resolution &| watermarking..). While looking at the preview, if they have access to the original, let them have it.