Gallery Search Options

[Jonas1975]

Add to the Search "engine" of the Gallery, the ability to search by EXIF info of "Make" and "Model" (cumulative search options).

[Jonas1975]

This is really important to my site. Is it too complicated to develop?

On which file is the search code located?

[SMFHacks]

Would be in Gallery.php and Gallery.template.php

I think I thought about this in the past but it would be too hard to search many different columns for specific data so I dropped the idea for now.

[Jonas1975]

I have a mobile gallery with photos uploaded by all members. So it would be great if members could search for photos made by certain mobile phones (iPhone5, Nokia 808 Pureview, etc) to see sample photos from common users of what each phone could make.

Other alternative was if I could pre-set a search for the specific models I pretended and use it as a link (for members to use). That could to the trick and avoid creating a new search option. Would that be easier?

[Jonas1975]

I see that sometimes I get a link from a search that I made that allows me to link back to that search. This way I can create a shortcut link to something that I want to feature.

Here's a link example: http://themobilephotographyblog.com/gallery/?sa=search2;q=eyJrZXl3b3JkIjoiIiwic2VhcmNoZm9yIjoiMTAyMCIsInNlYXJjaGtleXdvcmRzIjoxLCJjYXQiOjAsInNlYXJjaHRpdGxlIjoxLCJzZWFyY2hkZXNjcmlwdGlvbiI6MSwic2VhcmNoZXhpZm1ha2UiOjEsInNlYXJjaGV4aWZtb2RlbCI6MSwic2VhcmNoY3VzdG9tIjoxLCJkYXRlcmFuZ2UiOjAsIm1lbWlkIjowfQ;start=0

Not always I get this link, since sometimes I just get http://themobilephotographyblog.com/gallery/?sa=search2 . Is it possible to get always a direct link to a made search?