[TYPO3-dam] Looking for a gallery...

[Karsten Dambekalns]

Hi.

Michiel Roos [Netcreators] wrote:
>>> georg kuehnberger wrote:
>>>> It's not DAM, but did you have a look at the gallery2 implementation?
>>>> As far as I can see G2 offers all you need and even more.

Thanks. I did look at it again, and will probably use it. DAM is not a 
must currently, but rather the nesting, comments and ease of use (for 
the people feeding pictures to the gallery).

Gallery2 wins in all points easily, especially after I tried the 
standalone Java application for creating albums and uploading pictures. 
Even does image downscaling on the client before upload.

> Gallery2 uses it's own database (tables at least). It's not a TYPO3 ext 
> in any way (except that it's 'glued' into TYPO3).

Well, since the Gallery2 developers obviously provide a very nice API to 
embed into other applications, the glue is quite strong. CSS and JS from 
Gallery2 is put cleanly into $GLOBALS['TSFE']->additionalHeaderData, the 
BE user is logged into the Gallery2 when using the BE module, ...

FE user sync should be easy to add, and it might even be possible to 
make the DAM a "data source" for Gallery, who knows.


Sorry, for now I'll stick to that, as I just have an itch to scratch for 
a relative of mine, so I cannot put hours, days or weeks into that topic 
now.

Regards,
Karsten