Hi Thanh,

Do you mean the module would retrieve images by ftp from a remote server or the user would upload images by ftp to the web server and the module would then use them?

I think the second is doable, I posted here hoping someone would take on the project.

Joe

I suppose its possible but it seems like an uncommon scenario.

Interesting idea, we could easily add an url property to the GalleryImage and let it overide other settings (though I don't see myself doing this in the next few weeks or anything) How would we handle thumbnail creation with files coming from elsewhere?

I'm thinking we really need a flickr module or picassa module or both ;-)

People could also use an html module and just view the source and add img tags pointing anywhere ;-)

I'm not sure I'm understanding your suggestion. When you say allow users to specify arbitrary urls do you mean creating an img tag with src=somearbitraryftpurl ?

In the current model users upload full size images and after the upload we create web size and thumbnail size images and store them on disk on the server.

So if the url is to an image on an ftp server would we create a thumbnail and store it on the web server disk or not?

Am I misunderstanding your suggestion?

Joe

You have any interest in implementing this Dean?

I've got a lot of things already lined up to work on for a good while and this still seems kind of a strange scenario to me. A user uploads images to some other ftp server and then copies links into the module. It just seems a lot more likely they would ftp the images to some directory in the mojoportal site. Also image files can be very large if they come right out of a camera in high quality so you really need to make sure the one displayed is a reasonable web size.

My dream for a gallery would be to use F-Spot to manage my whole collection. There is already a google sharp library in mono that could be used and someone also implemented picassa support in F-Spot to export images to picassa web so a picassa module would be a solution I could get excited about.

Joe