One of my first planned projects for XF is actually a gallery, but I'm holding it off for a while to scope out if anyone else makes something similar and when I have some actual time (in a few weeks, hopefully).
Oh, things become much simpler (and faster) by restricting things down to post content type and combining a bunch of queries into one, if I assume this then there isn't a problem. It's that supporting for additional content type that some another addon may add becomes a tedious task.
EDIT: I...
Okay, that becomes slightly more complicated (as I said, I haven't worked everything out). XF stores attachment count of each post in MySQL, querying for it's total against visible posts is one way to figure out how many actual attachments are there. But querying for visible posts itself can be...
There won't definitely be updating, and I won't be pulling all attachments at once. The searching concept is similar to how XF handles post searches, by limiting the query's approach and caching the base number of results (hence pagination on all the requests) through anoptimised query
I don't know about someone else, currently I'm starting off with a simple metadata implementation for attachments and ability to view images together at one place. The plan isn't to make a grand add-on, but a simple (and perhaps, cheap) one.
Fair enough, but extending into attachments can be easier for a lot of photography oriented forums plus it's faster to develop. Just getting a taste, been doing image manipulation and display for years (generally how I start out with a platform), definitely not going to stop here.
Hello, basically my first post here. I'm making a new add-on for XF with the purpose of storing and displaying an image's metadata (EXIF, XMP etc.) and also allow searching via certain EXIF and XMP data tags. Here are my planned features:
Store important meta data (fstop, exposure, shutter...