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#1 2012-07-05 05:29:47

tye
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From: Pottsville, NSW
Registered: 2005-07-06
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Photo competition - how to?

I made a photo competition using txp a while back, it worked but a the same time, in my eyes was clunky and not too usable.

I’ve just been asked to create another, so, I thought I post my solution below was hoping that people could take a look and offer any ideas for improvement – even if its a totally different approach.

Basically each entry submitted 5 photos and there was a maximum of 10 finalists for each competition – so I had to find a way to display 50 photos in their own galleries and allow voting. Each competition had 3 stages Pending, Live, Complete. Users also had to be registered to vote.

Each competition was created using only 1 article using custom fields for the 3 stages, each stage displayed different forms on the competition page.

All stages used ign_password_protect & mem_self_register to provide a login/register system

Pending – this stage showed the competition details, images of prizes and a custom entry email form with 5 image uploads.

Live – each entry was assigned an image category and then these categories were assigned to a parent image category. Using this great method of categories as values for glz_custom_field dropdown Options I could assign the parent image category to the article and display them as 10 thumbnails which each popped up the image category for each entry using the super flexible smd_gallery & a jquery lightbox script.

Voting was controlled by pap_xpoll. A poll was created in the admin and assigned to the article using the same custom field image category method as above – so in the end a radio button poll with 10 entries listed underneath the thumbnails above.

Final display in order was: intro text, entry thumbnails, voting system.

Completed – This just showed the winning entries, 1st, 2nd & 3rd with an image for each.

I know its brief, but any ideas on improvement in my approach, method, display and the admin side of things?

[editing reason: “I’ve been asked to create another”]

Last edited by tye (2012-07-05 09:16:44)

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#2 2012-07-08 22:49:53

tye
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From: Pottsville, NSW
Registered: 2005-07-06
Posts: 859
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Re: Photo competition - how to?

No one?

Is this probably the best way to do this?

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