Extension talk:SuperGallery

Specification

The user clicks on the link, intending to make a gallery page that itself links to galleries. A form pops up. It has eight (or so) sets of inputs boxes containing:

• url of thumbnail
• size of thumbnail
• link to sub-gallery
• caption about sub-gallery
• border
• padding

The form also has:

• title of supergallery

The extension needs to know if this is a user's private supergallery, so it can append /username to its url. The extension itself uses gallery tags and css backgrounds to create the page for the user. It auto-places each sub-gallery "cell" depending on how many the user specifies by filling in sub-gallery details on the form.

No Ajax is needed, as the submit button creates the page.

I have a working example of this as a page, see http://jack.co.nz/Galleries -- Jack 15:23, 29 November 2008 (NZDT)

Coding Issues

Heading offline, will do this now as much as possible, got the latest updates to the template, compiles OK locally, back online 3 days time maybe -- Jack 15:22, 29 November 2008 (NZDT)

Serialization

The output of this extension needs to be serialized so it can be the contents of a tag function in a new page. Also, a new input is needed in the form for the name of the new page. Here is a good article about serializing objects: http://www.devshed.com/c/a/PHP/The-Basics-of-Serializing-Objects-in-PHP/ --Jack 10:27, 10 December 2008 (NZDT)