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

[Luc Franken [TenToday]]

Hello Bernard,

Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately your extension is not available in 
the extension repository so I can't take a look at it!

Best regards,

Luc Franken


Bernhard Kraft schreef:
> 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