Wow! I have to join in the cheering chorus.
The drag and drop album sorting is extremely nice. Well done.

Just a thought - can we have the same functionality for sorting the gallery order as well?

Keep up the good work!

All - thanks for the kind words and encouragement! Most kudos should go to Tristan for coming up with ZP in the first place. I'm happy to contribute where I can =)

SuperDevy - sources are checked into the berlios repo. If you want bleeding edge stuff, check every few days. FYI: update.php is not done, but contains the sql you'll need if you wanna take it for a test drive.

syndromes - make sure that Manual is selected from the Album edit page. When I just checked it was set to Title. I guess a shortcoming of the dev site is more than one person could be playing at the same time!

simon - yep! That's the plan. Now the plumbing is in, I have a few things I need to wrap up on this. But gallery sorting is definitely planned.

Lucky: Gotcha - that did the trick

If I could offer up a suggestion as for usability, I think it'd be more intuitive to have the sort order button also displayed on the page where you are actually doing the draging & droping of images (for dotes like me haha) Once you're already on that page, you can't really tell how things are being sorted.

Regardless, thanks to EVERYONE involved w/zenphoto. Good stuff!

FYI: I checked in an upgrade.php to SVN to migrate DB tables to the new schema. Worksforme, but make sure you back up first if you test it! Or you can setup from scratch again.

syndromes: thanks for the feedback. Good idea, I'll take a look at it.

Syndromes: OK, so instead of displaying the sort button, what I did was add a check to see whether or not Manual sorting was already selected. If not, it's automatically set (presumably if you are manually sorting, you're always going to want to display that way) and a little message shown. I think this works pretty well.

Perfect! That works great

This sounds very good. Is it possible to store the nightly builds in a zip file somewhere, so it is easier to download for us - non technicians ? :-)

I would love to try the new features.

I'll be working on the interface for the sorting in the coming weeks... I have a few ideas to make it more intuitive.

thegirlinthecafe -- there's still not much development going on, so it's not quite worth it. I'll make sure to release more often.

Is support for subdirectories included yet, that is the one feature that I really need for a site I am doing for an orginazation.

I thought folks might like to know that I have completed adding sorting of album order to ZP. You can drag'n'drop the albums in the Edit page of the Admin section. I'm pretty pysched! I think the UI could be improved and made more dynamic and subtle, but the major back end stuff is there.

Check out my dev gallery at:

http://www.luckyspin.org/zenphoto

Admin login: admin/password

Previous caveats apply: No p*** taking at site. UI and workflow maybe subject to change.

Comments/feedback appreciated!

fungifred: no, it's not there yet, but is very high on the list of priorities. Patches always welcome

Wholly Snickies!!! That's what I've been waiting for Luckyspin. Keep up the great work. Any time frame on the release of all these new features?

Yeah, we're hoping to get a new beta release out by next Weds. We still have a few features to wrap up and some testing to do, but sit tight. It's coming!

Teaser: I've also just completed implementing email comment notification for admins. Now you'll know when someone posts to your gallery.

Check this out:

http://www.luckyspin.org/zenphoto/zen/rss.php

with your favorite [b]RSS[/b] reader that is I dunno if I'll get everything done that I want to in time for the next release, but there's hope!

Nice job lucky spin, can we (or I) get some documantation of what and how you've changed it to get this great sorting in? I for one would like to learn to do this, it would be great in other plugins too...

Hmm.. documentation. That doesn't sound like too much fun Of course, all you need to know is in sortable.php which will be in the new release. Or you can view via the web at the berlios project site.

I suggest the documentation be set up as a simple wiki.

Set up a bare bones framework for the info needed,
and then keep an eye on it adding info as and when appropriate.

That way there is slightly less pressure on you.

I stumbled over a wiki designed specifically for documentation, but i cant remeber what it was called. Anybody know?

Keep up the good work guys, were all cheering you on!

Luckyspin, anyway you can make this effect part of zenphoto in a future release?

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox/

Looking forward for 1.0beta!!!

Yes, that lightbox feature is pretty cool. I wouldn't mind seeing it in ZP somehow....

For all you watching, check out zenphoto.org for the new 1.0beta release.

And I swear if I hear the word lightbox one more time... (honestly, you have no idea how easy that is to integrate into a theme. try it yourself.)