[Digikam-users] Importing captions + comments from Web-Gallery

[Felix]

Felix Eckhofer wrote:

>Hi Felix.
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>On Sunday, 21. August 2005 23:20, you wrote:
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>>Gallery2 [...] has the directory structure that corresponds to the
>>albums, so the import process would be more straightforward.
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>Hmm, I did some research in the meantime and found that the gallery 
>remote API is actually quite well documented [1]. For my own purposes, 
>I don't really have a choice which Gallery version I should use (my 
>pictures are on a server running gallery 1 - so that's what I need to 
>import) but of course it would be nice to have a working solution for 
>both.
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Gallery Remote is the way to upload images from your desktop to Gallery; 
it indeed works with both G1 and G2. The import would be very different 
between G1 and G2 - G1 metadata live in files that are serialized PHP 
objects; in G2 all metadata are in the database.

>regards,
>felix
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>[1] Gallery remote API docs
>http://gallery.menalto.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=GalleryDocs&file=index&page=gallery-remote.protocol.php
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Felix