UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums General Suggestions and Feedback New PhotoGalery looks nice

Rick,

The way you have the Island showing the latest gallery posts is quite a nice touch I think. Great work guy.

I'm not usually a ditto man, but 'ditto'

I like it too,
but i dare to think to the images i could wake up too in the mornings lol...

Agreed, it looks like a thoughtful feature, good work!

What about adding alt+title to the images in the gallery island?

Good point about the alt/title tags. Will see what I can do.

Goodbye Photopost, hello Threads gallery.

Well we have not used one before and not sure if we will or not, but does look like a pretty nice feature.

Rick,

Might be nice to add or at least not remove the menu for the popup window when you open the image in a new window. You can use CTRL-P to print it but for some I'm sure it's not known and they might want to print the image and don't know how with the menu removed.

Are we able to turn "off" the photo gallery feature if we don't want it?

Thanks, looks good.

Yes, it's optional, it's just a toggle when creating a new forum.

or sub-forums ... If you want to see an extensive rollout with sub-galleries, check out Elite Web Gamers

Don't look at Gizmo's site. He still has the announcement bug in his gallery forums

ive just msn'd him lol

Good. Look forward to it all.
Thanks!

OMG! Your forum is back, Gizmo! Thank goodness - I thought I'd have to send anti-depressants. Glad it's back up for you, Giz.

Rick, I love the new gallery too. I'm trying to find all the new stuff. The "spoiler" thing is cool too.

Rose check out the 7.2 discussion forum,
you will find my discoveries as i found them lol.

We have our own photo galleries on our site. Not sure how this photo gallery is setup but do the photos shown here have to be sucked up from a hard-drive or can they be existing URLs of images online?

My server is still down; this site is hosted elsewhere.

When you start a new Gallery Post
you have the normal post options so i cant see why not.
But i don't think they will hit the photo island.

One to test and play with ?
Give it a go.

theyr'e images which are uploaded by users.

Ive just done a test.


To use the Gallery you have to UPLOAD 1 Image.
Or you get a UBB Error telling you so.

Linked images appear below.
In the post content.

I see no images in your post

This one ?

Okay, but you posted here and said in the content below so with no link it sort of makes it difficult to track down what you were referencing.

Thanks

Not sure if you should be able to, but it seems that if someone replies to a Gallery post that they can not add their picture to it.

I think that's right, once i thought about it.

As you have normal forums to do that

Hmm, I think you may be right NT. Having images posted in the reply kinda messes things up, since they all should be in thumbnails and not buried down in the comments. I think we may need to lock down what ubbcode can be posted in comments.

Gallery New Post Icons

Explanation
Loving the galley, but when i enter the gallery my eyes
are now trained on how a normal forum works.
Meaning I'm looking for a post icon if there are new posts / comments?

After my eyes re-focus, i can now see the (2) along side comments.

I dont know if i'm just getting used to it, or my eyes are really missing a posting icon to say no new comments?
I feel i want something to change colour.

I'm confused ??

I would say, Replies = NO IMAGES / Uploads
1st post to contain the only permitted images.
Replies should be replies.

its late now, so i'm getting slower and may have missed somthing

I would like to see an area at the top of the forum where you could post a guidelines / rules type of statement. Nothing complicated just something to let people know what kind of material they can post and that the contents are being monitored.

Also, can the gallery have Post Moderation like other forums?

yes - already there just the same as a regular forum / yes - you can set post moderation

Gallery Forums use the same posting code that standard forums do; so I'd say yes.

Gallery island :

Loose the padding or make the pictures wider

I like the space, keeps it from looking crowded.

You can set the size of the images from the control panel.

At the moment it is set to 4 images in a row though.

GIF images - I just tried to upload image.gif and when it uploaded it changed the file name to image.jpg.

Is there an option to allow gif images or is it locked to jpg?

Rick has it currently locked down to .jpg to save server space with additional compression. It may be changed to give admin preferences in the future.

Would allowing gif images pose any possible security issues?

I think it has something to do with the way GD works?

I spotted the same on ricks site with .png

pretty neat it can convert.
Saying that it will prevent a rotating gif on a 2 min pause.

It should save a gif as a gif, a jpg as a jpg, and a png as a png; RE: gif and PNG support transparency, JPG does not.

Fully agree with Giz. If Rick wants to lock it down on his site for some reason that's fine, but for release version it should not matter and should allow all of them.

love the new gallery. one comment on file sizes. did a test

original file 130k
small version is 30k

the large version you get when i click on the larger image (not the thumbnail) is actually BIGGER than the original.

original 1024X768 130k
large version when clicked on is 1024 X 768 and 170k

not good. shouldn't make the files BIGGER than the original for the same size image

Agreed. (IMHO) When you click on the thumbnail it should point to the unaltered original image.

Very odd that it made it larger; even with the quality changes that are done when uploaded, you'd think it'd still be smaller...

There are a few bugs though with the system itself, though not show stoppers

i use an excellent jpg tool, projpeg, that works way better than say the photoshop jpg tool. so the images it produces are smaller than most jpg algorithms. that could be it

Yeah but if you upload an animated GIF file and it gets modified by the system than you will lose that animation.

yeah could really do some damage. could come out any number of ways

The few bugs I know of are:
1. Transparent images are no longer transparent.
2. Animated images are no longer animated.
3. I believe that all images are saved as jpegs, even if the source was of a differant type.

Not really show stoppers, but minor annoyances ...

Rick did do one hell of a job for the time period he worked in ...

4. Non-Latin characters break things, kinda like PM's in 7.0-1.
5. your filesize quirk...

I am rathere entertained by your filesize quirk though lol

I suggest , filename are renamed to randomly-generated UUIDs.
This will prevent filename encoding and server file system encoding incompatibility problem.

Moreover , I suggest files are served by php program , not by apache server.
The image I uploaded are saved to the three destinations:
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/gallery/48/thumbs/592-CRW_8476s2.jpg
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/gallery/48/medium/592-CRW_8476s2.jpg
https://www.ubbcentral.com/forums/gallery/48/full/592-CRW_8476s2.jpg

There files seem served by apache , not a php 'filter' .
If it is served by php program , it should be able to add more authentication to access these images.

The photo gallery is definitely something we'll be improving on over time. It's in a it's infancy stage right now. For beta 3 we do have GD working to keep the image in it's same format that it was uploaded in, and also in most cases will preserve transparency (thanks to Ian Spence). Still need to work on ImageMagick for this.

Linking to the original unaltered file would be somewhat of a problem. In *most* cases it will make the filesize much smaller. Taking a 1 MB picture and shrinking the full size down to under 300k depending on the quality setting in the control panel.

Other things suggested in here will be coming eventually. I know this first release will have some issues and won't be as flexible as everyone wants it to be, but just trying to keep releases coming fairly quick.

love it baby. you rock. great work as always

Definitely not knocking Rick. Just observations for future improvements. I think you've done an awesome job overall. Great product and very good attention to detail which is often quite lacking in todays fast paced World of programming.

PNG and GIF (since they are allowed) are the ones that potentially have issues, the JPG should not be an issue regenerating (would still like it to keep the original aspect ratio and dimensions of the original)

I also understand the need for space and bandwidth management, difficult balance at times.

That could be a decent work around; but not really a fix to the problem...