[TYPO3] concept for the development of a new photobook extension
Luc Franken [TenToday]
typo3 at tentoday.com
Fri May 19 14:30:43 CEST 2006
Hello Typo3 people,
After reading the title you might have noticed that I am going to
develop just another Photobook extension. Why? Because I think there
just isn't an extension available which is really great.
What's the problem with the existing extensions:
- No integration with extensions like tt_news. For example: I have a
website with events, why can't I connect a photobook to this event when
the party is over?
- No possibility to add other content to the photobook. Well, some
extensions like goof_photobook let you create a textfile, which you have
to upload, and then it is possible to add some comments which is not
user friendly.
I have 2 ideas, do you have any other ideas or do you think one is
great? Please post all notices, how stupid they like, I don't care ;)
1. Based on the filesystem I create automatically pages and add a plugin
to the page. This makes it very easy to add some text above it etcetera
because it is just a page.
+ very flexible
+
+ easy integration with tt_news, for example by adding a field to tt_news
- you get a lot of pages,
- quite hard to integrate because you need to add page records etcetera
2. Just create a new way how tt_news parses the images. So create
next-previous buttons etcetera.
+ very easy to implement
+ easy to add some other fields because the tt_news extension is
really detailed
+ things like sorting, multiple languages, are all handled already
- always connected to a tt_news record, is this a disadvantage?
What do you think is easy to use and is a real addition to Typo3? Or is
there another concept you think which is even better?
Thanks for your input!
Best regards,
Luc Franken
TenToday
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