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Image hosting interface
IMHO, architecture of Textpattern is quite suitable for image hosting. Can I expect to achieve an interface, similar to greitai.fastmail.fm?
(Sorry for small pictures — free galleries are restricted there up to 1 MB only).
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The problem with txp is not the syntax or the ability but the way it currently stores images in one folder. An image hosting service will and can possibly result in millions of images and I’m not sure as to how that folder will function once it gets so full.
I’m sure that the devs can give a better, more informed, answer but in my view, unless we figure out a more sustainable way to store images, I would not recommend it for such focused function. What txp does wonderfully well – and it was the reason that it was developed – is text.
Images mainly due to the wonderful efforts of Stef, have indeed become first class citizens but their home is still in the slams.
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For the record, I am investigating ways to offer images stored in subdirectories to alleviate this issue for image-heavy sites.
Though it probably won’t become a core feature (because this is Textpattern, not Imagepattern!) I have an idea on how to implement this using a plugin. But it’ll require some core feature improvements, which are slated to appear alongside the Image panel (grid layout) changes we have planned for the next release.
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I am not going to offer public nor commercial hosting service, just curious about an interface to present a quite large and diverse artwork portfolio of blacksmith master, in this case.
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#5 2017-03-10 13:25:25
- jpdupont
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Re: Image hosting interface
It would be fine if we could have a field (in the images form) to put the url of an image on an other images hosting service like Flikr, Dropbox, ….
- Be allowed to use this image with the habitual tags …
- Be allowed to generate thumbnail from this image (smd_thumbnail) …
- Or be allowed to put in new thumbnail fields the URLs of Flickr thumbnails per example.
In this way we store the metadata of the image in DB, while the image is stored elsewhere.
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jpdupont wrote #304539:
It would be fine if we could have a field (in the images form) to put the url of an image on an other images hosting service like Flikr, Dropbox… we store the metadata of the image in DB, while the image is stored elsewhere.
That’s exactly what smd_remote_file did. But it did so on the files panel, not for images :-(
Of course, if you want to manage your images from the files panel and use the <txp:file_download_*> tags for creating image lists instead, and manually construct image tags, you could use that.
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#7 2017-03-10 13:35:52
- jpdupont
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An smd_remote_image Is it conceivable :-)) ?
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