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Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
Remember to upload the actual PLUGIN once you have followed the installation instructions!
DOH!!
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Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
Thanks to the invaluable help from greenrift I was able to overcome all problems with my installation and finally make the album section of my site go live.
But nothing can be perfect, so now i try to understand what is that little bug with the previous and next tags which sometimes makes me jump some pictures or go back unexpectedly to the album list. You may have a look yourselfs, if you care, my albumpattern installation is here”.
Try to navigate from picture to picture in the first of the gallery. Notice it?
Ciao!
Last edited by Macubu (2004-09-30 00:03:05)
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Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
> Martagnan wrote:
> Remember to upload the actual PLUGIN once you have followed the installation instructions! DOH!!
A very good point to everyone trying to get AP to work, since this is mentioned nowhere in the documentation… which makes the installation instructions incomplete.
Remember that people might be used to installing plug-ins (like myself), but since this is a hack more than a plug-in, how can you know that you need to install the plug-in as well, specially since it all shows up in the admin section of TXP without the plug-in installed (but of course won’t work in the frontend).
What I am trying to say is: I’d add that one line to the installation instructions. :)
A great plug-in, btw, thanks very much for taking the time to write it, greenrift!
http://ww.spreeblick.de, a weblog from Berlin
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#100 2004-10-07 15:06:38
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
Cannot make the next page and previous page links appear on my thumbnails page.
Here is the code on my page:
< txp:excerpt / >
< ul id=“galleryThumbs” >
< txp:album form=“album_thumbnails” / >
< /ul >
< txp:link_to_prevpage >Back< /txp:link_to_prevpage >
< txp:link_to_nextpage >More< /txp:link_to_nextpage >
< /txp:if_individual_album >
I have number of images set to 30 and my album contains 40 so the links should show up?
Please help
Thanks
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#101 2004-10-07 15:14:07
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
From what I can see, the opening tag for
<code>< /txp:if_individual_album ></code>
is missing. Could it be that you forgot to post it here or is it missing in your code as well?
http://ww.spreeblick.de, a weblog from Berlin
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#102 2004-10-07 15:17:51
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
It IS on my page, just a bit higher up the code – thanks :-)
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#103 2004-10-07 15:23:08
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
Ok, then an expert (let’s not confuse him with an excerpt… ;)) needs to jump in.
http://ww.spreeblick.de, a weblog from Berlin
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#104 2004-10-07 15:56:31
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
You need to use ap_next_page and ap_prev_page instead of the link_next_page.
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#105 2004-10-07 16:04:14
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
thats got it – thanks!
BTW – Any hint of an AlbumPattern update release?
;-)
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#106 2004-10-07 16:33:13
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
Sooner if you can convince my professors to stop giving tests :)
I was wondering about people’s thoughts on sub-albums? It’s a feature that I think would be nice to have, but I’m having trouble on figuring out how exactly to display them? Should they be seperated from the regular image list of an album, or inserted alphabetically? Should I use the same form for an album image as a subalbum (or ask that you use a different form, listform, for them)?
Everything else except this one thing I’ve already figured out how to implement, just can’t quite decide if Sub albums should be seperated or not.
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#107 2004-10-07 19:09:07
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
> greenrift wrote:
> Sooner if you can convince my professors to stop giving tests :)
Give me their numbers. :)
> I was wondering about people’s thoughts on sub-albums? It’s a feature that I think would be nice to have, but I’m having trouble on figuring out how exactly to display them? Should they be seperated from the regular image list of an album, or inserted alphabetically? Should I use the same form for an album image as a subalbum (or ask that you use a different form, listform, for them)?
Everything else except this one thing I’ve already figured out how to implement, just can’t quite decide if Sub albums should be seperated or not.
My 2 Eurocents: Seperated, with extra forms as well. I think that if people need subalbums, the pics in a main album will divide into those subs.
Example: Let’s have a main album called “My Life”. You click the title (or pic), the next page shows the subalbums of “My Life”, for example “The school years”, “University”, “Present”. There’d be no need to have pics in “My Life” that would not be in any subalbum (am I speaking clear? It’s kinda late…).
Can’t you somehow simply use categories to make up the subs?
I only started with AP today, so forgive me if it is already in there and I haven’t figured it out yet, but I would love to see this in AP:
- Upload possibility of a seperate thumbnail/image for the album list view only, an image that will not show up in the album. Could be a graphic for every album, that way.
- Manually setting the order of the albums in list view.
- Using AP on more than one “special” page.
- Categories for albums and wildcard conditional tags for those. That way, the last but one point would be solved anyway since I could simply day “In this list view, show only the albums whose category name is “johnny_*”, making the albums available whose categories are “johnny_school”, “johnny_university” and “johnny_now”.
More when I am deeper into it. It is very, very cool and I am happy to be able to use it!
http://ww.spreeblick.de, a weblog from Berlin
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#108 2004-10-07 20:28:57
Re: Plugin/Hack: Albumpattern
Categories would be good, with multiple albums in each category?
Album List would look something like:
Category One<br /> Album One<br /> Album Two<br /> Album Three<br />
Category Two<br /> Album One<br /> Album Two<br /> Album Three<br />
Category Three<br /> Album One<br /> Album Two<br /> Album Three<br />
etc…
There would be an option to show ALL images in the entire category or JUST an individual album list.
It would also be good if I could use different TXP page templates to display individual AlbumPattern categories.
I would also like you to add a winning lottery number generator accessible only by me and make me irresistable to gorgeous women. ;-)
Just a thought!
PS. This plugin is fantastic and I hope Dean may consider allowing closer development integration with Textpattern.
Last edited by Martagnan (2004-10-07 20:33:47)
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