Extending Photos Module

I'm trying to extend the Photos module to include a bulk uploader, so that I can move photos from another system to Dolphin.  I've followed the writing a module tutorial, but the Photos module doesn't have it's own admin (it's based on BxDolFilesModule).  What I want to do is add another section to the admin which is "Bulk Photo Uploader", it will take a list of profile ids, album names/ids and pointers (url or file path) to the photo image.  Then it will call the main routine in BxPhotosUploader, which will do the resizing and other images.

Can someone tell me what the procedure to do something like this is?  I added the actionAdministration() method to BxPhotosModule, based on the Bloggie tutorial, but that doesn't really work since this is subclassed from the file module.

And

$this->_oTemplate->pageStart(); // all the code below will be wrapped by the admin design

doesn't work -- where and when is _oTemplate instantiated?
I thought if I called parent::actionAdministration() I could then append the functionality I wanted, but I think that closes the admin page.
Anyway, I think I'm going about this the wrong way, and would love some guidance!
Thx,
Tac
Quote · 7 Nov 2010
 
 
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