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Multiple Image Upload Parsed Through Slideshow Plugin

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Multiple Image Upload Parsed Through Slideshow Plugin
This is a long shot...

We have a photo gallery on our site, and currently users can submit a single image at a time, which is then parsed through the Slideshow Plugin and published.

The problem is that this process is extremely tedious for those looking to submit multiple photos, and they often then just don't submit more than one.

Our intentions are to change this to allow users to submit multiple images at the same time, something that is available through many open source pieces of code. However, due to the complex way that GT/Slideshow Plugin manages the file types and stored locations, it would be very tiresome to echo this in a javascript upload. And instead we're thinking it may be easier for the upload form to run, and then simply trigger and get passed through the Slideshow Plugin. The only difference being that the initial submission process will then push more than one image through the plugin.

There are some fields which we will want to be set by a single field for all those uploads, and others where we want each image to be able to be edited separately.

For example, our upload form looks like this, along with our idea of what could be set once on a batch upload and what needs to be a field to be edited for each image:


Select Drop Zone: [Apply to Batch]
Image Title: [Apply to Image]
Photographer: [Apply to Batch]
Description: [Apply to Image]
Adult Content (Nudity) [Apply to Image]
Add to Album: [Apply to Batch]

Tags: [Apply to Image]


My question in the end, is...

Is this something that is possible to do without excessive development costs? In theory it feels like it shouldn't be that difficult to achieve, but at the same time I'm unsure of how the Slideshow Plugin could handle it.

Any thoughts on this would be appreciated.
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Re: [meso] Multiple Image Upload Parsed Through Slideshow Plugin In reply to
Hi,

I have a plugin that does that already:

http://www.ultranerds.co.uk/...JAXImageUpload_L282/

It would just pass them into the normal image fields in the Links table (there is no real way to sort the order of these though). I spent many many hours getting this working, so I know just what you mean about it being complex ;)

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Re: [Andy] Multiple Image Upload Parsed Through Slideshow Plugin In reply to
Hey Andy,

That's a good looking plugin and we may find ourselves using it for some of the other sections, but it seems that what we require is different to what the uploader does. It looks like your Ajax uploader uploads multiple images to the various image fields on a single link.

Our problem seems a lot more tedious.

We're looking for an uploader that can upload multiple images to an install as links.

The way our gallery/photo section works on http://www.dropzone.com/photos/ - is that each image is actually a link. So what we'd be needing is a way to upload essentially, multiple links at the same time - while parsing the image associated with that link through the slideshow plugin.
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Re: [meso] Multiple Image Upload Parsed Through Slideshow Plugin In reply to
Hi,

This could certainly be done. If you'd like me to quote as a private job, I'd be more than happy.

I'm assuming you would want to "grab" the Exif data from the images, ready to use in the link? i.e location, date, etc).

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BTW, are you aware your comments links don't do anything? :)

http://www.dropzone.com/...tml#comments_display

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Thanks for the heads up regarding the comments - will look into it.

Definitely interested in getting a quote, will PM you with full details.