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How would I do this? - 4/18/2008 22:56:57
I'd like to have a page where I have a list of other pages (the list would be page titles) with a check box in front of each list item. I'd like the user to have the ability to check any combination of check boxes, click a 'submit' button and be presented with a page links consisting of the links represented by the checked boxes only. I know this sounds a bit goofy but it really does have an application. Perhaps someone may have a better idea. Here's the situation:
Someone has a website that has hundreds of pages. This person uses the site to show clients photos but they want the ability to show only specific photos to specific people without giving the client the ability to browse the rest of the site. So, it's not really a traditional site but more of a utility. So the way I'm seeing it is that the site owner would be able to see a menu that would expand and collapse with different categories. categories would ultimately be populated with lists of all the pages with the actual pictures. the owner would check the links they wanted to show a client and then have a custom list to show them.
Am I making this too complicated? Would a login scheme work better? The owner would need to be able to view it with a menu while the user would not have a menu.
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RE: How would I do this? - 4/19/2008 3:27:00
Would the photos belong to the clients - e.g. like wedding photos or would they be part of an overall pool of photos that the person selects from to show the client and don't actually belong to the client?
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RE: How would I do this? - 4/19/2008 10:21:14
They are groups of photos (each page may be 9 or 12 photos or so) that all belong to the owner of the site who want to be able to show only selected pages to her clients.
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RE: How would I do this? - 4/19/2008 11:38:43
Hmmm... I can see it being lots of work, whatever you do... except... I suppose all the photos need to be within the site's layout do they? Reason I ask is that with photo sites such as Flickr you can set up various "sets" or groups where you drag and drop your photo and you can send a guest pass to someone which allows them access to that set only. But, obviously - it's on Flickr rather than their site so might not be suitable.
If they need an integrated solution then what I'd do is set up a database with (probably minumum) of 3 tables - (something like - categories, photos, client-pages).
The first table would have various categories (say - people, landscapes, weddings, pets, houses, corporate etc etc) which you can add via a form in a passworded client admin area.
The second table would hold the name of the photos and, via a form, assign each various categories (can be more than one) to that image name.
The third table would create a client page (doesn't have to be passworded - the url to the page can include a random number) - during the process of creating that page (via another online form) you can choose which categories of photos to show on the page (e.g. all weddings, all corporate and people for example via a multiple select field). The page is then generated with a random number on the URL to avoid needing passwords. That page would have all the photos from the categories chosen.
The client admin area would have each client page listed with edit and delete links next to it so that when you're done with it - you can just delete the page. Or maybe keep them if they're likely to re-use.
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RE: How would I do this? - 4/19/2008 15:00:16
I think Jalbum would be a good way to do it. You can sort the images by categories and present it to the customers....
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RE: How would I do this? - 4/22/2008 0:50:33
I'm thinking it would maybe be a page the owner logs into with a list of all of the locations driven by a collapsible menu. she checks boxes and a submit button that would then generate a page of links she could send to a client. Does that make sense? The links would go to stand alone, non-linked pages.
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RE: How would I do this? - 4/23/2008 23:37:11
PHP? What's that? Seriously, I have really no DB experience. I've used them a bit but I've never created one. Most of my little experience is with Access. I started looking into MySQL a bit but it melted my head a bit. Any suggestions?
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RE: How would I do this? - 4/24/2008 1:35:23
Well basically you're either going to have to learn some PHP to go with the MySQL or another serverside language such as ASP to do what you want.
Depending on your time limitation I'd seriously suggest subbing this job out to a developer who can do this part of the job for you.
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