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Originally Posted by rbl

Those are different things. All user photos first.
That page exists in Gallery although it's a bit low profile, just follow any link beside a usename that says "view all of username's images", or type /gallery/browseimages.php?do=member&imageuser=1 (where 1 is the user id)

The user's category is a feature where any file posted in a specific category (where that feature is enabled), is placed automatically in a folder named after the user.

So if i had 2 major categories, Pets and Cars, for example, the users uploading their photos there, would also be able to have their photos appear [automatically] in the "user" category of that user also? It appears that way with the url you posted, but I have to make sure

I don't understand the question. Do you mean, can a user upload all his images to his user folder (in a user's category like I describe above), attribute keywords to each image and when someone browse the category Cars or Boats, all the images (from that user) that have the keyword Boats or Cars appear automatically? If that is the question, the answer is no. If you click a keyword, all those images (as well every other user images with the same keyword) will be listed but a category is, by design, a non-semantic container.

I guess that makes sense. You seemed to understand my question Maybe some kind of feature to have a "keyword" link as a "category" on the main page might be a solution there.

Web based galleries as far as i have seen are more "category" based rather than keyword based. Whereas, programs like iPhoto on the mac and Windows Digital Image Suite are based solidly around keywords. I guess its a different direction, but might be worth consideration?

From my point of view, that defeats the purpose of containers, in the manner they were thought of. In a single user environment, that is not a bad idea (and you can do it, oh well, "fake" it is more the appropriate word), but in a multi user environment, that would be terrible, at least from where I stand.

It really depends on the audience of your users. And I guess you are more-or-less right that it wouldnt benefit a multi user photo gallery enviroment neally as well. But, if it were to be able to be limited to a per user system (userid:1, keywords: BLAH) or system wide, it would be an awsome feature

Keywords are fantastic if you follow that path. With a couple of minor changes to the code, you can duplicate the number of relations between the photos just by throwing in the IPTC data, if you use it. Imploding some of the fields and parsing them as links (like the keywords) could make a fantastic change if you are into it.

Id definatly be into doing it. Though, I would have no idea where to start at the moment