Mass uploading and PP's Picture selection

[DefenceTalk.com]

Okay... I did some tests on Coppermine gallery and uploaded files using FTP uploads as well as URL and they were in SOME TYPE of order.

Through FTP, the files were sorted exactly as they should be low #s to high and through URL uploads, it reversed the order... bottom to up.

So, there is something wrong with how PP gets the files from FTP and how it extracts the files from a URL and then display them in bulk upload page.

[Michael P]

Or we just do it differently.

[Michael P]

You could possibly try (not supported) modifying your bulkupload.php around line 155:

Content visible to verified customers only.

or something like that.... just off the top of my head anyways.

[DefenceTalk.com]

So, replace this:

if ( $handle = opendir( $openpath ) )
{

With the above code in reply # 23?

Thats what I did and getting this error

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in ../public_html/pictures/bulkupload.php on line 609

[Michael P]

No, it should look like... (changes in bold)

Content visible to verified customers only.

[DefenceTalk.com]

Thanks but it does not help... still see random, no order (ftp and url).

[Michael P]

It was worth a shot.

You could also add it down at line 627:

Content visible to verified customers only.

[DefenceTalk.com]

Thank you. That does it for the directory/FTP uploads. That should save us a lot of time! Good work.

But for the URL uploads, it doesn't extract the pictures from TOP to bottom so in whatever order it extracts then it processes them like that which is same as the FTP uploads. Anyway to make it behave similar to that so pictures are processed in top to bottom order?

[Michael P]

I have no idea; given how we process images, I don't think it possible since one script grabs them and then hands off processing to another script.

[DefenceTalk.com]

Yeah, can there be any changes made to the script that "grabs" the pictures from an URL?

[funkmeister]

Originally Posted by Chuck S

You know you can order photos in a category as you choose?

How do you do that Chuck? I have a gallery of photos that are based by year taken. I often get photos at a later time which need to be grouped with a set from an earlier time. So when I get this "new" photo, I currently can't just move it next to the others of that same timeframe. Hope that makes sense!

I basically want to be able to move photos around within a category as I please, instead of the "fixed" sort options such as "name, most & least viewed, title" etc.

Is that available with 5.62 - if not, put it down as a feature request please

Thanks.

[funkmeister]

Never mind - found it in the Admin section and it works just as I wanted

[Chuck S]

No problem

[raisun]

I apologize for resurrecting an old thread, but I am having the same problem and am absolutely stumped. We do a bit of bulk uploading of photos and part of our process is to add descriptions to each image. When using the bulk upload feature (processing any number of images), the upload.php page seemingly orders the images randomly which makes it very difficult to write descriptions of images that should be in order. (thankfully if i try to upload the same batch of photos it seems to be in the same order each time).

I believe I understand how upload.php is trying to work, and i understand that readdir() reads the files in the filesystem order. Could there be a permissions issue? I have my images directory set to 777 as well as all of child numeric directories. Is there something else that I could be missing? I can't believe that linux is storing the images in a random order...I would believe timestamp or filename, it neither one of those is the sort.

Im using PP 2.5 a VB 3.8.4.

Thanks so much!

[Chuck S]

well the upload script doesnt read child directories just the one being processed.

This thread is about Photopost Pro not vbGallery which is a separate product.