How to get the ids of the albums in the gallery?

[brem]

Well, title says it all.

thansk

[vuud]

Well, title says it all.

thansk

What, you mean the album id's?  Like just a list...

1
2
3
4
5
6

etc?

[brem]

Yes.

Because I can't (we can't) assume that all indexes are used. Some of them could have been erased during the lifetime of the gallery.

[Nibbler]

Is this related to cpmFetch?

Just run an sql query to collect them all:

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SELECT aid FROM {$CONFIG['TABLE_ALBUMS']}

[brem]

True that. I just thought cmpfetch would have a ready function for that... since you can use indexes in parameters... i don't know... I guess I don't yet have set my mind on how I should be using coppermine / cmpfetch yet.

Basically, I want to be able to use coppermine, as a easy and ready mean to add, remove albums and media (pitures and video, sounds), but I want to use this content outside of coppermine, in a web application.

So I want the users of my application to be able to parse through albums and medias therein.
I know I can do it all by sql queries, but I'm lazy (a programmer quality), and I was hoping there would be an api to make it easier to retrieve information.

There. You have my story now.

[Joachim Müller]

There's an api, but no api documentation yet

[brem]

Do I have to download the plug-ins package?

[Joachim Müller]

no, not related.

[brem]

GauGau, the API you are referring to, is it the "main" php files of coppermine or another package?

thanks...

[Joachim Müller]

http://svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/coppermine/trunk/devel/api/

[vuud]

Yes.
Because I can't (we can't) assume that all indexes are used. Some of them could have been erased during the lifetime of the gallery.

Brem, I answered another question that could easily be modified to collect all of the Album Id's.  Not as good as a cpmFetch built in function, but it would work...

http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=36045.msg169416#msg169416

[brem]

Muchos gracias, as they say in Mexico to both of you vudd and Gaugau.