Set star to an album

[chrobs]

I would like to "set star" to an album like I'm able to star a photo.
The suggested behaviour would be the following:

• Database table lychee_albums is extended by a binary field 'star', like lychee_photos
• Context menu for an album has 'set star' like a photo
• If an album is starred, the table entry becomes a 1 for 'star' field, like photos
• The smart Album 'starred' (or favorites) shows all starred photos (as before) and additionally all photos of albums which are starred

The idea of marking the album itself as starred and not the photos included in the album at this particular moment, is, that it is dynamically because the album photos may change.

Background (or why would I like to have these kind of functionality):
I have a self-made digital frame on which my lychee gallery photos should be displayed. Therefore, I have built a short php script (can be found here: Lychee_frame ) which hooks to the lychee classes and generate an HTML page showing a random picture directly from the lychee data.

So far, so good. But, there are some albums I want to have in my gallery but do not want to be displayed on the digital frame, e.g. very old pictures or the photo album from our last house conversion.

Therefore, my Idea was to only show starred pictures but it is really not convenient to star hundreds of pictures individually.

Sadly, until now, I was not able to hack my way through the Lychee-front structure..

Thanks for your support!

cheers,
chrobs

[ildyria]

Hi @chrobs ,
Interesting idea. 👍

Interesting idea, but I would also implement something that goes side by side with this idea:
in Album view, create a button that does a slide-show of an Album.

About Lychee-frame:

For the future of it, I would highly suggest you start having a look at:
https://github.com/LycheeOrg/Lychee-laravel
as this will be the next version of Lychee (expected v4.0.0).

The backend has been rewriten intensively but I'm sure that your frame can be easily added in next version of the project (I would guess it would take me about 30 minutes to implement it!).