Uploading more pictures at once!?

[matic]

Yes, I saw and tested option to upload pics over ftp and then import them into db, but i don't wanna put ftp acces to all memmbers. Neither all memmber knows how tu use ftp.
So it would be VERY greate to do a way to upload a more pics at once! In form option to browse for more files at once and submitting that form?!

Is there mybe allready that kind of solution or hack?

[Joachim Müller]

this has been requested before and is in the making. Meanwhile, take a look at the xp_publishing wizard - doesn't solve all your problems, but those of users running Windows XP.

GauGau

[matic]

tnx!  

[mariuss]

The possibility to upload multiple pictures would be really nice.

Either a form with many file/title/description fields (5, 10 ore more) or the possibility to upload a zip file full of images.

Cheers,
Marius

[cybrpnkr]

I am also interested in seeing a feature added for uploading of multiple pictures AND I am willing to (atleast attempt to) develop it over my christmas break.  This will be my OSS patch debut, so is there anything I need to know?  Is your project aiming to be fully compatible with PHP Safe Mode or am I allowed to break that with my patch?  I am planning on allowing users to upload a zip/rar full of jpgs and have each optionally resized and added to a specified album.  Does this sound in order?

-cybrpnkr

[Joachim Müller]

@cybrpnkr: any hack is welcome, even if it requires safe_mode to be turned off.

@mariuss: Coming up with an html form that allows multiple pics to be selected is not the problem, the server-sided magic is the stuff that troubles me - if anyone can come up with a decent hack, you're also welcome.
You can see a demo for such a form that has been ripped from the gallery script w-nailer here: http://gaugau.de/partner/cpg/upload/upload.htm (bear in mind, it just shows the pic selection on the html/dhtml front-end, it doesn't do anything yet when you click on "Upload"). This script's source code can't be used as code base, as it's the intelectual property of Willem (the author of w-nailer), so the page is just some sort of "proof-of-concept" thing.

GauGau

[mariuss]

Hi Gaugau,

I did not realize that uploading multiple files could be tricky. I have seen this feature in phpGallery and that is why I was suggesting it.

While scanning the PHP documentation I saw that there is special support in PHP for multiple file uploads, but probably you know that. Here is what I found:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.file-upload.multiple.php

Also there are Java applets that can help with this:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jupload/
http://www.haller-systemservice.net/jupload/

As for zip file uploading here is the php documentation:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.zip.php

I hope these links help.

Cheers,
Marius

[freez]

Wow, I never saw those Java Applets before. JUpload, I like the name and it worked with Mozilla.

I want to add one more to the list:
http://www.ibulc.com

(https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibulc.com%2Fimages%2Fselecting_scr.gif&hash=44dcf5b66efcd6f6876072d72b88b29333f062db) (https://coppermine-gallery.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ibulc.com%2Fimages%2Fuploading_scr.gif&hash=8b3905d190c8c5b7cd6466280b15087ec8925e3e)

[Joachim Müller]

@Freez: stop spamming the board with ibulc adverts. We got your message, and you got the answer from Tarique. I'll delete all further ibulc-related postings...

GauGau

[freez]

Sorry GauGau, did not mean to offend you, I thought I was just listing a feature request. Anyway, by all means, remove the posts. I did not want to do the wrong thing.