Hi Chris,
Our site is an old car club members' private forum. We have about 6000 photos - many of them historic racing cars etc which are of great interest to researchers within the club.
Each car has its own category to contain its photos - so we have over 1000 categories.
Each car's category name has the
car's type, date, chassis number, engine number, registration number, owners details in the category name itself. The category description field contains the ownership history of that car. Then there are photos stored in the category, each with a title and sometimes a description too - relating to when & where taken, what shown etc.
It is a pain that we have to repeat all
the above data from each cars category name in the title or description field of all the photos of that car, or they wont be found in a search for that car. As things stand the ownership history cannot be searched either - not great!
Happy to give you a guest ID so you can see what we have migrated across from vB4.2 with Dragonbyte Gallery - it is a private forum.
I could post some screen grabs here if that was helpful. Much easier to look at the site.
Is our use of the gallery so unusual? I would have thought this was a classic use of a photo gallery for a club.
We don't see any need to search the names or descriptions of our forum categories, just their content. So I think your decision NOT to search forum categories seems correct
Please PM me if you are interested to see our site, understand the challenge and maybe suggest a solution.
Regards, Mike
