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SPAM
I love it. Don’t you?
No really, I’ve been playing around with Markku’s preview release of SPAM (formerly known as iPAP). I’m seeking to use it as a replacement for the crappy Coppermine Photo Gallery I’m currently using. Here are my initial thoughts. Please note that these are not at all intended as criticism.
Not So Good Things / Suggestions
- I was shocked to notice it utilizes dbtxt, a file-based storage class Markku made, instead of a MySQL database. Personally, I prefer MySQL, because it’s easier to edit and manage the database itself using a tool such as phpMyAdmin.
- There’s the package. There’s a stylesheet. There are two template files:
gallery.tpl.htmlandalbum.tpl.html, in which PHP can’t be embedded. - Whilst deleting one of my “test albums”, I noticed that the photos in that album weren’t deleted from the database… This probably can be easily fixed though.
- There’s no time difference setting.
- I don’t know how others think about this, but in my humble opinion, a batch uploading feature would be nice.
Good Things
- The default design is *beautiful*.
- The whole thing runs real fast and seems to be very stable.
- Gotta love the permalinks!
- SPAM shows respect to web standards.
- I love the idea of squared thumbnails—yes, squared; even if the photo itself isn’t square (read: most of the time).
- … (about a hundred things I forgot to mention)
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- Rebelpixel Productions: iPAP/SPAM:
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The first public release of iPAP: Photo Album Publisher (formerly known as SPAM) is now ready for download. The zip contains a somewhat detailed documentation, and everything you need to know (for now) is there. The project …- Trackback made on June 13th, 2004 @ 8:55 pm
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Ch-Check It Out!
Vincent Markku Seguerra did it: he released iPAP 0.7. My advice to y’all: get it now! There was quite […]- Trackback made on June 14th, 2004 @ 4:45 pm
Mathias, thanks for sharing your thoughts on this.
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Again, thanks!
Uhmm, I think the unordered list in my previous comment is causing some display magic, just edit it. :)
Don’t worry about the display magic problem, the new design will be officially launched soon, and it won’t have a problem with unordened lists in comments ;)
Hey, I just realized there was always a server time offset variable! It’s
$server_time_offsetin theipap-config.phpfile. :) It’s actually the same offset you use in wordpress.:oops: Indeed! How could I ever miss that?!