bulk upload for general access

[skidpics]

How do we modify the admin bulk upload to work with regular users and a default directory?

[Chuck S]

For members to bulkupload you need to create them an ftp account to upload files to your server to their default directory.

[skidpics]

so the bulk uploader cannot be modified to handle this once an upload is completed?

[Chuck S]

that is not what i said.

I said if you wanted regular users to upload that you would need to create an ftp account to let them upload files.

If your trying to add to the mix your little hack mod thing then that would take the place of the ftp part all users need to do is hit skip upload prompt and process files in uploads directory when they visit the upload page if the files are uploaded with your hack.

[skidpics]

i see.. as a guest users, I have tried the "Skip upload and process the files already in your upload directory" with a directory and a url for an image, and it does nothing..

[Chuck S]

guests upload from uploads/0 i would beleive as long as files exist in the directory the script is looking for it works fine

[skidpics]

I suppose I will explain what I would like to do a bit better - concerning the ajax uploader everyone is screaming about, which, I am sure will be added to PP once everything is worked out.

To have a temporary fix, allow a self install of which ever uploader "you" want, then once uploads are done, redirect it to the bulkuploader and automatically allow the bulk uploader to add the uploads from the default upload directory much like it does in admin mode.

This of course will not be the base bulkuploader, rather, a modified version of the process under a different name..

this would be a quick fix, if easy enough to do, in order to fix the demand issue for now..

[Chuck S]

Your free to discuss your code modifications with other users outside product support in THE MOD CORNER.

[skidpics]

thanks Chuck, I will repost http://www.photopost.com/forum/showthread.php?t=134255.

concerning the ajax upload discussion..

[Chuck S]

Not a problem might do better for you to have users like you discuss this instead of me posting in a support manner how the bulkupload portion works.

[skidpics]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

guests upload from uploads/0 i would beleive as long as files exist in the directory the script is looking for it works fine

Actually chuck, If I use the url of "http://www.iww.is/art/shs/photos/NL02B.jpg" and try to do the skip uploading part, nothing happens under guest access. No images get pulled from either a directory or URl


We are talking about this, right?
Extra Options
Retrieve all images from a URL:
Skip upload and process the files already in your upload directory

[Chuck S]

retrieve all images from a url is something different there we parse whatever page and try and extract images from the img tags in the html page. If your trying to bulk look for images on a directory server path on your server you must input the proper server path and use the skip upload function and this server path must exist on your server.

[skidpics]

Okay then,

I have /test on my root dir with pics in it. If I use /test and skip the upload process, I get nothing from it..

I tried http://skidpics.com/test and nothing also..

[Chuck S]

Right but guests cant process bulk uploads in some custom directory. In fact registered users or guests are limited to processing files in their own upload directory.

Only you logged in as admin and inputting the proper server path to that directory would be able to process those files.

[skidpics]

so the feature really doesn't do anything, unless you are allowing ftp bulk uploader for users, correct?

if so, what would the url be?

[Chuck S]

users can only upload to their respective bulk upload directory which is their user upload directory and if you look at the options users are not given bulk upload options in a any way only a way to process images in their que. If you give them an ftp account that is limited to their upload directory only and they upload images then they can use the skip upload checkbox but I do believe we have discussed this before.

As far as the path it is not a url. It is a server path to their uploads directory and it would be whatever your server path to photopost is plus /uploads/theiruserid

[skidpics]

It was discussed, but I never got a clear understanding of what it was for. The question previously was why the bulk upload script was showing when not logged in.. So this, answers that question..

[Chuck S]

bulkupload shows for anyone when their uploads directory has more than one image, the category has extra fields or you have optional categories selected in upload options. The script they go to to upload is uploadphoto.