website help-event photography

[mickhall]

hi was wondering if anyone could help as well as being a photographer am also a runner and over the last 12 months have been asked to cover running events throughout the uk this has been very succesfull.

At the moment I use eos script http://www.eostemplate.com/eos/index.html

this has and is ok but what we need know we are being offered bigger events is a searchable script etc

something where you can type in the runners number and you can find it doe anyone know where i cold get this from??

 

[dod]

I've been messing about with Gallery2 which looks like it can do it. Also got a built in shopping cart. A lot of faffing about to get it the way I want it though.

 

[HIMUPNORTH]

Surprisingly few off-the-shelf packages. Seen some Jalbum galleries but think you need to pimp them.

I am ever hopeful that a lightroom add-on might appear (or an aperture one and I will swap).

Many shopping basket packages but either hard to link each image or to add many images. Will watch this thread with interest!

 

[mickhall]

have been talking just to a guy who says it should be possible through your metadata but you need to tag each photo which is possible but time consuming.

 

[HIMUPNORTH]

This thread prompted me to have a look around to see if a plugin such as I suggested yet exists and guess what? One with a paypal option does. See http://www.lightroomgalleries.com

Also if shooting tethered/wireless and looking for on-site printing this might be an option:
http://www.onefshop.com/event-photography-software-site-printing

Will keep looking.

 

[pxl8]

My solution is a couple of lines of Javascript and Jalbum, instead of searching it simple jumps to a page in the gallery based on the race number entered by the user, eg:

http://www.shootingpixels.net/humdinger.html

All the images are tagged with the bib number or "unknown" and then exported from LR using a custom filename formed from that tag. Jalbum generates its pages based on the filename so I wrote a simple script that takes the used entered race number and builds a URL to the correct page, eg:

self.location.href="album/Events/Hestercombe Humdinger/slides/" + document.form1.bib.value + ".html"

Finally I set the redirect for the album folder on the site to jump to the first unknown slide page instead of showing a page not found error.

Edit to add: the script is in the page source, if anyone wants to use it go ahead - it should be fairly simple to cut & paste it and make the necessary changes to the gallery path.