v0.8.6 DEV feature list Options

[usr.c]

v0.8.6 DEV feature list

New features:
- Allow filenames to only be unique within their categories, and not globally. [ Delayed (next release) ]
- Allow users to selectively download pictures. [ Delayed (next release) ]
- Allow admins to add new fields. [ Done (user request) ]
- Provide a pubDate in the RSS feed. [ Done ]
- GIF support. [ Done ]
- Display the main page in three different views: The current one, one that displays thumbnail views of categories' contents and one that displays small thumbnail views of categories in a hierarchical form. [ Delayed (next release) ]
- EXIF support. [ Done (credit: qwerti) ]
- Search by user name when a user's name is clicked either in pic_details.php or the members list. [ Done ]
- New search tool. Default style can be set in Admin CP. [ Done ]

Major changes:
- Code extensively updated and cleaned up. It is now fully valid XHTML (almost) and renders without any problems in Mozilla and Opera. Some pages have reduced in size (LOC) by up to 25%. Ancient code has been removed or collapsed into reusable modules. Successive versions will even further improve the code's modifiability.
- Stylesheets updated and cleaned up.

Minor changes:
- File name is displayed after a successful upload.
- Description of allowed file types fixed to include ".gif".
- Heading for comments in pic_details.php corrected ("comments" -> "Vistor comments").
- New handlers prevent fatal errors from occuring when the language or stylesheet specified in Setup & Config is non-existent.
- Users can now more logically choose what information to show in pic_details.php.
-Empty comments are no longer allowed.
-EXIF data can be enabled or disabled from the admin control panel.
- Admin can prevent pictures from being uploaded to parent categories (user request, prim3r).
- All version numbers up to v1.0 will now be appended with 'DEV' to make clear that the software is still in a pre-release stage.
- doctype added to page headers.
- Content-type set to UTF-8 for all pages.

Bugs fixed:
- Possible error message in search.php when there are pictures awaiting approval.
- Inability to change stylesheet in Setup & Config when the skin is set outside the Admin CP.
- The links in the search page bar didn't include all the arguments in the URL.
- Inability to turn debug mode off once it's turned on in admincp.php.
- Removed the blank space between the logo and the menu items below it.
- Several stylistic quirks fixed.
- Certain legitimate words may have been incorrectly dropped in search.php and add.php.
- '#' in category or picture names causes problems.
- When a category has a non-existent parent for some reason, the old infinite error message shows up.
- Non-European names for categories produced unpredictable results.

This post has been edited by usr.c: Dec 22 2005, 02:57 AM

[usr.c]

This post is to let everyone know of the development schedule for v0.8.6 and its successors, up to v0.9. Since the semester has now more or less started, I'm forced to have to cut back on the time I spend working on the project. I can't specify a release date for v0.8.6, but the plan is to spend one to two days a week working on it.

Thanks again to everyone who uses the gallery and who takes the time to submit their comments or report bugs.

[qcx]

v0.8.6 (under development) feature list

- Display the main page in three different views: The current one, one that displays thumbnail views of categories' contents and one that displays small thumbnail views of categories in a hierarchical form.

== that make slow page loading. i hope this just an option. so we still can choose the classic view.

and for the exif support, this is great.

[usr.c]

Indeed, it will be an option that the admin can set.

[FiShMaStEr]

- Allow users to selectively download pictures.

love the idea, though i hope you make it an optional setting in the admincp, personally on my site i dont mind people downloading the entire wallpapers section, but if they were allowed to select the ones they wanted it could cause a few too many collections of .zip files in the folder pushing me over my space limit.

other then that the features are looking pretty impressive.

[usr.c]

Anyone who has tried to modify will hvae realized that it's probably not as straight-forward as it should be. Starting with v0.8.6, which I expect to be out before Christmas, the search tool will be rewritten so that it's more modular. The rest of the gallery will follow in successive releases.

I'll keep you updated.

[usr.c]

The demo has been updated with an experimental version of the search tool: http://cyberiapc.com/zenith_demo/search.php

I'll be spending the next few days cleaning up the code that looks like it's on it's way to becoming a huge pile of spaghetti and adding the promised features. Fully modularizing it, though, will have to be delayed until a future (pre-)release.

Also, v0.8.6 will be bound by the GNU GPL again instead of the one that v0.8.4+ were bound by, which in retrospect was a bad idea.

[usr.c]

After a very long love-hate relationship with tables, I think it's time to say goodbye. CSS is much better

The stylesheet already looks much cleaner, as do the pages. Expect v0.8.6 to be the best (pre-release) version yet!

[usr.c]

Two features to be added and two bugs to be fixed before v0.8.6 DEV is made available for download, which should be before Christmas day.

Thanks to all who submitted their suggestions and comments.

[usr.c]

A new tool in v0.8.6 DEV allows admins to define new fields. (requested by dgraham)

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