Upload photos without having to log in

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doyle1983
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Upload photos without having to log in

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Hi,
I’ve setup the Phoca Gallery Category layout and I’m trying to get it so that no one has to create an account or login in order to upload photos to that 1 category. I have set the permissions to the Phoca Gallery folder and the Category folder to 777 so every one has access. I also did that in the parameters as well. I went through the backend to the category and set:

- access level = public
- access right = All Registered Users
- upload and add user rights = All Registered Users
- delete and publish = All registered users
- owner = nobody

Can you please tell me what I’m missing in order to get the upload working without logging in.

Thanks,
Mark
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Jan
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Re: Upload photos without having to log in

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Hi, to be able to upload images into Phoca Gallery, you need to be logged in, see:
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... ser-upload

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Re: Upload photos without having to log in

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Thanks for the quick reply. Is there a way to rewrite the code of you component so that this is possible. My main concern is that requiring everyone to create an account may frustrate a lot of people and in turn miss there photo that they wanted to upload.
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Re: Upload photos without having to log in

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Hi, I think not :-( uploading or adding something without logging in is very risky and can be made by some large servers like imageshack but I think such function cannot be implemented into opensource as we are living is spam time, and many users do not think about possible risk of such upload for server. :-( :-( So such dangerous feature should be only customized, I think.

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Re: Upload photos without having to log in

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Yes, that is a very good point. Thanks for taking the time to share that and answer my questions. Nice job on the Phoca Gallery! :D
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