[ansel] lib/Gallery.php patch for date-uploaded change

Chuck Hagenbuch chuck at horde.org
Wed May 19 12:31:42 PDT 2004


Quoting "Heath S. Hendrickson" <heath at outerspaceconsultants.com>:

> How else would you search for all images that have a date-uploaded of
> 5/15/2004?  I'm not going to argue that there is a use for BETWEEN and
> BEFORE/AFTER searches when it comes to date, but how do you return all
> images on a single date?  Force the user to enter the same date twice
> and do a BETWEEN search?  And even then, you'll still have to return all
> the images and convert the timecode in PHP to be able to a single date
> search.  I'm assuming that you would automatically make the time
> 00:00:00 for any date entered, right?  So to get a single date you'd
> have to do a BETWEEN search with the date you want first and the day
> after as the second date.

Right - which doesn't mean returning all of the images. I think you
answered all
your questions here.

> And to make it even more complex, the EXIF date fields are stored in
> another format altogether (2004:03:26 20:16:08).

Well, we should probably convert relevant bits of Exif data on the way in.

> Since we can't change the way that the EXIF data is stored in the
> images

But we can, since we store them as attributes, not in the images themselves.

-chuck

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