Album - dynamic content?

[gahanna-6.4]

Greetings,

Using latest and greatest CMSMS and Album as of the date of this posting.

My question is about Album and whether or not it can support generating albums from an existing directory structure and continue to follow an existing images-directory/subdir1/subdir2/ subdirectory.

For Example, we have about 200 albums in total and they are separated into categories in the filesystem like this:

images/uploads/PhotoGallery/ (top level directory which has no images)

|--Members_Pics  (top level directory which has no images)
  |- Username1/
  |- Username2/
  |- Username3/
      .....
  |- Username101/

|--Events_Pictures  (top level directory which has no images)
  |- Event1
  |- Event2
  |- Event3
    .....
  |- Event36

We have about 200 members, each has their own folder with their own pics that we upload too.
We'll also have several hundred events, each event will have its own set of pictures.

I intended to use categories= to set the intro pages for each section, but it would be a huge headache to have to create an individual album for each and every user and event now.

I looked at some other image gallery, looks to be defunct, but it was using the {ImageGallery} tag and it appeared that you could point it at a directory and it would traverse automatically showing Folders, which is what I need. I also looked at NeoGallery, but it is highly undocumented and I was unable to get it to work.

I *assume* there is a way to tell Album to begin in some directory rather than having to create a gallery out of EACH member or event as I've listed above. If Im correct can anyone point me in the correct direction? Or perhaps recommend a different gallery module.

Thanks in Advance!

D.
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[chross]

Anybody solved this one yet?
I would really like to know how to select a different folder for album images. I always have to crawl through all images added by "Upload Photo". This is really no option when you have to manage like 300 to 500 photos or even more.

Ideas appreciated.

Cheers,
christian

[JeremyBASS]

hmmm... I was going to need to work on something like this... I'll see what I can dig up in the next few days or so, unless someone has an idea here...

cheers
jeremyBass

[Russ]

If you are using FEusers to login, why not add a field to the login script which is an album id or a category? You'd still have to add the images to album though.

Album does not generate albums from directories, but you could maybe write a php script that does this and reads directories and adds them to album. But this maybe a bit static for you. Perhaps using a UDT's you could write something, like the image tag, to read these on the fly ? Not sure why you would want to use album for this though? Perhaps I'm missing something?