[digiKam-users] Web based interface (in PHP etc)

[Tac Tacelosky]

Although it might seem like bad programming practice to put jpeg/png blob
in a database instead of a filesystem, I'd love that option.  In
particular, it'd allow a cloud-based solution to not require an disk usage,
making it cheaper to deploy.

That is, pay for a cloud-based database, then use a free or low-cost
deployment like heroku, create a dynamic site, and not need access to the
original images to create the thumbnails, nor need access to a disk system
in the heroku deployment.

A second database could be used, or another table in the database with the
image blob, but MUCH better would be an option for how you wanted in the
images stored.  PNG and JPG rendering will come from a library, so perhaps
the developer would be open to this, even if it renders images differently
than the current method.

Of course, the images could also be stored on s3, but that's considerably
more complicated, since the images are de-coupled from the database.



On Wed, Apr 10, 2019 at 4:41 AM Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wonder if it would be possible to get that changed, not just for this
> Web project but to make everything accessible for future generations to
> come.
>
>
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> *From:* Tac Tacelosky
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2019 9:37 pm
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> *Subject:* Re: [digiKam-users] Web based interface (in PHP etc)
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> The thumbnails are stored in format that hardly anyone uses (blanking on
> the name of it now).  In particular, there are no PHP libraries for reading
> it, even integrating GD, the popular and powerful image manipulation
> library.
>
> I wish there were an option for selecting the thumbnail format, which
> included jpg and png (and the associated quality and size options).  Even
> if the database were bigger, it would allow much easier access to the
> thumbnails, without all the complications of re-creating thumbnails from
> somewhere else.
>
> Tac
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 4:12 PM Daniel Fenn <danielx386 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> To answer a question about if thumbnails can be extracted from a
>> database, it depends on the format. Is it an jpg file or something like
>> that?
>>
>>
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>> *From:* jdd at dodin.org
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, 9 April 2019 5:38 am
>> *To:* digikam-users at kde.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [digiKam-users] Web based interface (in PHP etc)
>>
>> Le 08/04/2019 à 21:07, woenx a écrit :
>> > Are we talking about the same piwigo?
>>
>> I don't know what you expect. I use Piwigo for a lot of time now, with
>> success
>>
>> http://dodin.org/piwigo/index.php
>>
>> > serious rough edges that prevented normal usage, such as displaying any
>> > directory that had special characters such as aphostrophes
>> > (https://piwigo.org/bugs/view.php?id=3030).
>>
>> like any software it have syntax guidelines. I can use "?" in file names
>> (linux), when Windows wont like them... nor piwigo. use "detox" and voilà
>>
>> http://www.dodin.org/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=Photo.GestionDesImages#toc8
>>
>> >
>> > Apart from that, I personally prefer to write the metadata in the same
>> > picture file instead of sidecar files
>>
>> the problem is syncing metadata to/from web/local. It's not possible to
>> send or receive full image files only to sync metadata, when moving xml
>> files is easy and cheap. This do not prevent writing also to the images,
>> as I always do
>>
>> jdd
>>
>>
>> --
>> http://dodin.org
>>
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