Have a peep over at this site
http://www.photography-cafe.com/ it uses smf forum software and coppermine gallery software, they are bridged together meaning one login for the user and both are connected/available.
On the sites home page, they have displayed POTD, POTW and POTM, admin change these as required, simply by inserting a number into a box.
Now click on the gallery link and when there click on one of the thumbnails from the main block at the bottom, your now on a page where you can comment (just like you can here) and you'll also notice a selection of stars, clicking on of these stars will "Rate" the photo from one to ten and you will stay on that page. So you rate then comment and go to the next photo. The ratings are stored in a database and added totaled.
On the admin side of the site a page is written that gathers ratings and displays them for admin to see so they know who has won Photo of the day (POTD). only ratings from the last 24 hours are displayed, so the winner is always a freshly uploaded photo and scores cannot accumulate over the course of a few days.
Now go to this link in their forum..
http://www.photography-cafe.com/foru...?topic=18777.0 in here you will see a mini display of photo's, these are the photos that have received ratings within the last 24 hours, and the photo at the top is "POTD" The listing was completely generated by the forum sotware so all the admin has to do is copy and paste the code from an admin page to a new forum topic, this also includes the hyperlinked photos in the list so that if you click one, you can go directly to its place in the gallery and leave a comment
So to sum up, you view a photo in the gallery, rate it, comment..then admin copies and pastes to a new forum topic and then puts a number in a box to set the POTD...simples..
How do I know this, I coded it all and the system that I recommended earlier in the topic is the system that was in use at the cafe when I replaced it with what they have now.
Go have a look and see what you think.
Steve...
