I would like to be able to create an album/sub-album without having to upload any images at the same time..

I was thinking it could go and be part of the Albums tab and under each listing would be an option to create a sub-album or top level parent album depending on where the user is in their album tree..

Hope this makes sense.. if you have any additional questions, please let me know.

You can do this from the upload tab. However, you must be using the HTML based uploader, not the Flash based one.

Additionally you of course can do that via FTP directly.

sbillard and acrylian,

I know about both of those ways.. but I was wondering if it might be better, from a users, point of view, to have the "Create a new album/subalbum" on the albums page.

look at this image : http://yfrog.com/03zpideap

I added the word (add) behind the number albums within an album.

what if the user clicked on that add link and a popup came up asking the user for the Album Title, folder name, description, etc...

I think this would allow users to set up their entire gallery easily and from the web without having to use ftp or the html browser upload page.

thoughts?

I would try to do this myself as a plugin, but I am not that good of a programmer.

thanks for the time you took to read this.. if I can be of any help, please let me know.

Thanks

elrol

That is probably not a good place for a little used feature. I suggest you could make a plugin that attaches to the album_custom_data filters.

You can use the filter-custom_data.php script as a starting point. To create a new album you need the following code:

$gallery = new Gallery();$album = new Album($gallery, $albumfolder);

I was going to create the same proposition - It's not always handy to use "upload" feature just to create the folder. For example, I need to create a tree of folders, 2-3 in depth - each time use "Upload" is not correct, cause these parent folders will never contain the photos, only subfolders. Moreover, it's not obvious and users easily may be confused by this.
So, it would be better to have a separate button for that.

More of that, I can't create new album without uploading picture if using (default) flash mode(on 1.2.6).

That is, of course as advertised. See my first post above. If you wan the flash based upload to be able to create folders you will have to address the uploadify developers.

sbillard, good, I understood that uploadify cannot create the folders - but it doesn't have to. And it's actually what I'm talking about - 'upload' and 'create album' must be separate actions, and only after that, additionally, upload page should have an ability to create folders as well.

I don't want flash uploader to create folders, it's just a question of usability - flash uploader is default, and you can't create folders with it. I beleive there are a lot of people who know nothing about flash or non-flash upload - they just use what they see by default on the page. An in this default case, it's pretty uncomfortable to create folders.

And the last argument(or usage case) - the first thing I'm doing when create new gallery is building up a new folders tree. I don't care about images at this stage - I just have to prepare a lot of folders, name it correctly, and only then I'll try to upload images. With current zenphoto admin facilities it's pretty hard and take a long time.

I guess then that the plugin route is your best approach.