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Improvements to image uploading are coming!

As part of my plans to refocus on improving the existing features of Pixaria Gallery, I'm revisiting the entire image upload and import system for Pixaria. The current system evolved fairly quickly over the course of two years with lots of additions happening in rapid succession and unfortunately, these have made it a little more complicated than I would like in some areas.

One of the most frequent comments I get is that people would like faster ways of getting images into the library with as few steps as possible. Thanks to some great developments in web technologies over the last year or two, this is now much easier a goal to reach than it was when I first started work on Pixaria so tackling this is a top priority.

The situation at the moment is that I'm working on an experimental uploader powered by Adobe Flash. This will make uploading and importing simpler by having the entire process happen on one page and all the current steps that have to be done manually will all be handled automatically in the background.

They way I envisage it working at the moment is something like this:

1. User goes to upload page.
2. User can select multiple files at the same time.
3. User hits the 'upload' button.
4. Without reloading the page, the images are:
   • Uploaded (with progress shown as this happens).
   • Resized on the server.
   • Image metadata is extracted.
   • Images are imported into the library.
   • A list of the uploaded files and any errors is shown.
5. The user can add the images to a gallery or create a new one.

As I said, this is still a bit of a work in progress but, I've been able to get something simple working quite quickly which means I should be able to add it to a live release fairly soon.

SitePoint Bushfire Relief Sale

As I'm sure many people have heard, devastating bushfires are continuing to rage out of control in Victoria, Australia and are still claiming lives and property. SitePoint who are based in Melbourne, near the affected area, are supporting those caught up in this disaster with a five for one offer on PDF books where 100% of the proceeds will go to victims of the recent fires.

Many of their books are directly relevant to Pixaria users including 'The Principles of Beautiful Web Design' and the Photoshop and PHP Anthologies and at $29.95 USD for five, it's hard to argue with the price. You can read more and pick your five books here.

Proposal to make Pixaria 3 PHP 5 only

I'm considering making the next major version of Pixaria ( ver 3.0) a PHP 5 only release in order to make use of some of its extraordinarily useful advanced capabilities which are missing in PHP 4.

I will have to make a decision on this in the next two weeks or so and it would be a big help if anyone who thinks this is a bad idea could let me know with their thoughts on it.

You can find out your version of PHP from within the Pixaria software diagnostics screen in the admin area or by creating a PHP script with this line of code in it:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Please post any comments about this proposal in the forum.