[TYPO3-dam] dd_dam_gallery - development discussion (was 'DAM Photo Gallery' in german list)

[Franz Koch]

> Just to give you an idea about getMedia and it's configuration:
> You can set defaults for the configuration in that custom extension like 
> dd_dam_gallery. After doing so, you do not need any additional things to get 
> content from the database. Now you can just use getMedia etc...
> 
> Now if you have the case that you need special configuration for just one 
> call (like 5 random images shown with category names), you just call 
> getMedia with an additional config array as parameter, which is then merged 
> with the golbal conf-array within getMedia, while the local conf passed 
> through getMedia has got higher priority...
> 
> That solves most things. Actualy I set up a news-plugin, link-catalog (which 
> I can publish online), filebrowser and a recepie-database in no time using 
> that... The link-catalog uses a little more features of the framework 
> though.
> 
> 
> One thing is not implemented yet... Which I want to do before switching to 
> beta:
> At the moment, all plugins are configured individualy related to output. I'd 
> rather like a method to combine those. Example: Having one gallery-plugin, 
> it can not handle videos (like for the snowboard-tour). But then you would 
> like to add a special view for videos, which is easy through the 
> plugin-structure, which is not yet fully implemented. BUT you have to 
> configure things indivudaly. Like headlines... For categories, listview, 
> singleview, whatever....
> 
> So having filters for different cases, plugins for special content elements, 
> then the whole thing makes much more sense. Imagine this case: You bookmark 
> images, videos, mp3... Now you save that collection as individual diashow or 
> just as page like it is now. Then those elements are rendered the same way, 
> as there is some common understanding of things...
> 
> There is some ajax proof-of-concept bookmarking. While setting up a 
> demo-user, I just figured out there is another small bug, so the bookmarking 
> demo will have to wait until... I got a moment for fixing it ;)

Sounds like the DAM is getting a new, highly flexible 
data-handling-method for any kind of data (not only documents) inside 
typo3 - which I'd prefere. Especially for the planned portal-features 
this sounds very nice. Centralized categories, polls, ratings etc. :)

-- 
Franz Koch