[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] idea: Button to refresh picture folder

please please help me!!!!

sorry for third post… but can nobody help me?

please!!

For what exact do you need help ? As far as I understand your post ,this is a feature request and not a urgent bug report.

You will find the media screen in the file admin/media-upload.php inside the plugin folder. There you need to add the button.

Hey thx for the responses! I thought that this is the right forum… Now I made it to create the button to the right place, but there isn’t any function. When I click on it, something is loading, but then nothing changed and nothing has been updated!

I added this code from the manage-images.php file to the media-upload.php next to the “Save changes”-button:

<input type="submit" class="button-secondary" name="scanfolder" value="<?php _e("Scan Folder for new images",'nggallery')?> " />

This is how it looks:

https://www.manupape.de/manu/nextgen3.png

Has someone an idea how I could do this?

Greets, Manu!

ps to alexrabe:
This feature would make creating a post much easier, if you use ftp-upload for your images.
It would be great if this function is contained in the next update of NextGEN Gallery!

I think this is a great idea and would serve to streamline everyones workflow who uploads via ftp (for example directly out of lightroom).

Thus I made a little hack to accomplish this. I hope, alex will incorporate it in one of the upcoming versions – surely in a neater way.

So here we go:

In media-upload.php find the function media_upload_nextgen_form

Near line 96 insert the code embraced by the comment-block:

// Get number of images in gallery
if ($_REQUEST['select_gal']){
    $galleryID = (int) $_REQUEST['select_gal'];

    // ---Hack by gwegner.de ----------------------
    // rescans the selected folder for new Images before showing it
    include_once (dirname (__FILE__) . '/functions.php');
    $gallerypath = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT path FROM $wpdb->nggallery WHERE gid = '$galleryID'");
    nggAdmin::import_gallery($gallerypath);
    // --------------------------------------------	

    $total = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->nggpictures WHERE galleryid = '$galleryID'");
}

This one will rescan and refresh the gallery every time it is chosen in the WordPress mediauploader.

Have Fun!

I currently don’t know why, but unfortunately the hack above is not generating Thumbnails for new images, although the method is being called. Sorry, I’m going to look into it a bit further if time.

would be nice… =)