$100 for development of a dynamic album by album title

instinctive

Joined: 2007-07-15
Posts: 5
Posted: Sun, 2007-07-15 16:28

Hi,

in reality, I've been a hardcore programmer in almost every language on the planet and in projects of almost any size since about 1990, but this Gallery thing and in general this insane OO stuff makes me wanna cry, so, here's an offer of $100 (payable via Paypal) to someone who will develop a module that creates a dynamic album (similar to the "Keyword album" or "Dynamic album" from the Gallery distribution) which shows items based on the NAME of the ALBUM they are contained in.

So, for example, this dynamic album should show all items of the gallery which are in albums with the title "foobar".

In addition, it should be possible to limit the result display to a certain hierarchy level and below, so, for example, if I have a hierarchy:

- Main album
  - Animals
    - Cockatoos
      - Fat
      - Small
    - Fish
      - Fat
      - Small
    - Dogs
  - Girls
    - Claudia Schiffer
[...]

it should be possible to show pictures of all fat animals by setting the album title criterium to 'Fat' and the hierarchy root to "/Main album/Animals".

If interested, please post to this topic. Thanks.
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Sun, 2007-07-15 16:42

why not use the user-contrbiuted tags module? (it's similar to the keyword album module, just a lot more mature.)

and if that's not an option, I'd rather add a module that automatically adds a tag with the album name. that's pretty easy and you could use the existing tags module for maintenance / tag management, thus reusing a lot of existing code / functionality.

a last note:
the module development forum is the wrong place for bounties / paid work.
please post your request in the market place forum, not here.

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instinctive

Joined: 2007-07-15
Posts: 5
Posted: Sun, 2007-07-15 16:49

Thanks valiant,

the problem is that it should all be kept as simple as possible for the customer. If they have to add custom tags to images, they will forget to do so. Instead, I wanted to base selection on the album title instead.
I tried to hack Gallery to add a keyword to new items based on the title of the album they're contained in, I spent 2 hours trying to do so, and didn't get very far. I'm used to procedural programming and to be honest, I find all this OO stuff a theoretical playground of IT students ;-)

I should have checked harder for the market place forum - mods, please feel free to move the topic there.
 
alemcherry

Joined: 2006-07-19
Posts: 72
Posted: Mon, 2007-07-23 09:59

You might get a better response if you post in any freelance site. For small works, you can use something like rentacoder or scriptlance.

I would have been interested, but quite busy now a days!

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LBen

Joined: 2006-03-16
Posts: 11
Posted: Tue, 2008-05-13 06:22

Instinctive: did you ever come up with a solution to this? I have the exact same need.

Valiant: I like the idea of a module that automatically adds a tag with the album name, but would this cover the sub-albums of the specified album?
 
instinctive

Joined: 2007-07-15
Posts: 5
Posted: Tue, 2008-05-13 14:27

LBen: I've opted for a different solution in the end, sorry!