best way to add thousands of photos to gallery

It shouldn’t be too hard, you’re right. In fact I have an extension that sets it when I manually upload my photos.

However, it is not likely that I get it done as I am quite busy right now. Feel free to modify it though and redistribute.

OK, I have attached the module below.

BE WARNED THAT THIS IS VERY ROUGH!!! USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

It uses your gallery’s upload directory and batch directory.

Install as usual then go to the module to move the files. The images must already be in your batch upload directory. And the upload only puts things in one category, so if you have many images you need to put into many categories it won’t work so well.

Please feel free to modify this code and make it your own. I make no claim on this, so if someone wants to take it and support it or expand it, please do.

THANK YOU!!!!!!!

I made some adjustments so that it used the JPG’s EXIF datetime as the entry’s date/time, and it worked like a charm! 1500 pictures inserted into the database in approx 60 seconds - awesome!!

Glad I could help.

Does anyone want the adjusted version with the EXIF data used as the entry time? Speak now…

Yes please

Sorry it took so long. The only lines that I changed (IIRC) were line 168 and line 171 of mcp.gallery_batch_uploader.php, to read as follows:

Line 168:

'title' => date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime($exif_datetime['EXIF']['DateTimeOriginal'])),

Line 171:

'entry_date' => strtotime($exif_datetime['EXIF']['DateTimeOriginal']) - 7200 );

For line 168, I formatted the entry title to be a human-readable date/time stamp, in universal format. Feel free to adjust accordingly.

For line 171, I had to adjust the date/time by -7200 to correct a strange time difference I was encountering between the EXIF data and the timestamp used for that picture’s entry in EE. I’ve no idea whether this is a unique thing to my server or photos, or if everyone else will encounter the same thing. I suggest you upload 2-5 pics as a test and see what results you get before using this on a gazillion files.

In case I forgot an alteration I did on any other lines, I’m attaching the files themselves to this post.

Thanks once again for this script, Erin - it’s been a MASSIVE help! 😊

Glad I could help. Please feel free to take ownership of this for your uses…I only put it together quickly to help out.