[TYPO3] concept for the development of a new photobook extension

[Bernhard Kraft]

Luc Franken [TenToday] wrote:

> - 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 also made an extension "kb_yag" (Yet another gallery) which features the same
concept of goof-fotobook to store "metadata" with each image ...

I did it more like DAM is doing it by saving the metadata in the database ...

But differently to DAM I do not identify an image-file by its location/path but
rather by a md5-sum of the first 200KB of the file :)

The advantage is that you can move files in the gallery around and they still keep
their meta-information.

The drawback is that you can't have the same image twice on the site with different
metadata ...


The complete output is completly configurable via TypoScript so you can easialy scale
the image down or create click-enlarge links ...


The company where it got used connected it to tt_news by creating a page which contains
the images for the specific news (by setting the fileadmin path to the location the images
reside) and then entering a Link to this page manually into the news ... this could get
improved by adding a field to tt_news - but this is rather application specific and can
change from site to site (Once you want tt_news to relate to galleries - next time extension
tx_somewhat)



greets,
Bernhard
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