This project has begun!

Village Idiot · 12-27-2008, 04:06 PM

Description and Purpose

Phlox is an image gallery for designers to register and show off their designs, much like an art gallery. People can browse, rate and comment on pictures. Each member can make galleries and add pictures to their gallery. Features will include:

Free registration
- Image verification
- Email validation
Gallery/Image Management
- Add/Delete Photos
- Add/Delete Tags on Photo
- Modify description
- Delete Comments on a Photo
- Disable Comments and Ratings
- Watermark Images
Customizable Public Access
- Allow or deny the public from commenting, rating, or even browsing galleries.
Full Admin Access
- Administrators can browse images as the owner would see them and edit anything as the owner could.
Admin Control Panel
- Add/Delete/Ban user
- Set limits
  - Max file size
  - Max resolution
  - Max images per gallery
  - Max galleries per user
- Search by
  - Tags
  - Description
Templating system (smarty)

External Resources

Source control: SVN. I recommend tortoiseSVN
PHP Framework: None.
JS Framework: We use JS frameworks as we need them.
Other: We will figure any other requirements out as we need them.

Coding Standards

Basic Style: Allman style.
Other: Avoid shorthand if's, no single line if or loops.

What we need to get started

PM me if you want to code, include your experience and what you are good at. Here are the tasks that we should get done first, I will accept peoples existing code:

Database design (the first thing that should happen)
SQL Class
User class
Image class (Upload, verify ownership of image, watemark)

Communication

Via this board and a chat room I will set up.