That would be a cool name. I did a little research into the name, phlox was the greek word for "flame". Phlox is also (according to wikipedia)

• Phlox (Star Trek), a fictional character
• USS Phlox (1864), a Union gunboat during the American Civil War
• Phlox, Indiana, an unincorporated place in the United States

An excellent name if you ask me.

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Here are my proposed ideas for the project:
http://www.justanotherportfolio.com/project.pdf

Before we can start coding, we need to have the following done. Many of them are nearly finished, other are not even close:
[x] = done
[-] = incomplete
[ ] = not even started

[-] Hosting
[-] Coding Standards

[-] Indentation Style
[ ] Common classes and methods (SQL cleaning, Database interaction, ect)
[-] Comments
[-] Spacings
[-] Parentheses
[-]Ternaries
[-] Regular Experssions

[-] Technologies/Resources

[-] Operating System
[-] Server resources
[-] Source Control

[ ] Project Plan (an itinerary of what we will do)
[X] Roster

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Hey VI

I do not agree with the limited Windows support if thats the case then I will be on the "Windows Port" part of the team, supporting cross platforms is an absolute must aswell as supporting multiple browsers.

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I am in full support of the script supporting windows, its just that we will be using mod_rewrite and probably chmod. I don't think it would be good to release 2 versions on release.

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I personally don't think using mod_rewrite is that big a must for now, lets see how the project turns out and lets take it from there

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don't know if your talking about my server but its ready, im just waiting to know what the plan is.

if the plan is to use a linux server, i have a shared host just sitting around doing absolutly nothing.

mod_rewrite works just fine on windows?

In addition, you don't really have to worry about chmod on windows either, most installations automagically have no security as far as write access (well, in that it's automatically given).
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I think it was regrading it under IIS which uses either ISAPI, FCGI or CGI. So under the ISAPI there was a product called ISAPI_rewrite or something and i guess we could use PATHINFO or something on CGI urls if activated

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Right, right. I have to think outside of my own little box sometimes and realize there are people who don't, for some reason that I can't fathom, use Apache.
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Hey VI, nice features!
Personally I think that the album management should also allow to set permissions PER album.


Album features:

"Allow comments in this album" - yes/no
"Private album" = only own user and admin can see
"Protected album" = password protected album so only .. friends can view(ofcourse admins overrule this protection)
"Public album" = everyone can view

Image features:

"Allow comment on this image" - yes/no (if allow comments in the album the image is uploaded to is set to NO, this will obviously NOT matter)
"Private image" = Sometimes you only want to have a single image in an album as private
"Protected image" = Same as with albums
"Public image" = Same as with albums

These are just some of the things that I can think of right now..

Perhaps we should just have password protection for friends only? Wouldn't really want to register just to view some photos a friend's put up.

But I like making permissions flexible for each photo.

IMO registering accounts must be optional. Many users (like photographers) won't like people uploading their own pictures to his gallery.

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Nunchaku! Who doesn't like martial arts? =)

No. I mean.. the admin have to first decide if he want to allow people to view the gallery without registrating. If he allows that, then EVERYONE that want to view an image with password protection(INCLUDING registered members!!!) have to write the password in order to view the image/album with protection.

And @Jim- Only registered members should be allowed to upload to a personal gallery.. otherwise it's not way to keep track to which album and stuff... it's better to have only regged users can upload. But if admin allows, everyone can see(unless the album/image is protected/private)

have a registered account, and a guest account

guest accounts can only look at pictures that the uploaders set to public
you can only upload pictures if you have an account (pictures delete when/if account is deleted), but you can also upload as a guest but the pictures are only on the server for a set time (configuration in the admin panel to how long they are kept?)

Should we host a use of this IG later when it's done ?
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Why should guests be allowed to upload pictures? Sorry, it just seems a little strange (and hard to keep track of who uploads what). Starting to sound like a file-upload site.

There's a difference between a gallery and an image-upload.
So please note that difference..

Thanks for pointing that out Tanax. Just like he said, when i suggested the gallery, I ment a gallery for people like Photographers or painters to upload their photo's.

In this project we don't want to put to much hay at our forks (a dutch saying, meaning that one is getting himeself too much work), so we are skipping many features. But in the meanwhile we are including some functionality that will barely be used.

I have been intressted in gallery systems for a long time, especially: gallery.menalto.com (or .net). That gallery is by far the gallery with most functionality, including user registration and uploading per user. That functionalit is almost all the times disabled by people who download it.

So what i'm saying is that i think we can better just ommit the user registration and create extra functionality, like plugin support.

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Nunchaku! Who doesn't like martial arts? =)

How can one have a gallery when we dont keep track of who uploads what? It would be like not having a registration to the form, no one could continue two posts because no one really knows if they are the same people.

This is an image gallery, not a file upload site.

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Because only the photographer (example) uploads photo's.

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Nunchaku! Who doesn't like martial arts? =)