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#1 2008-12-15 22:09:30
- Kazagistar
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Cool Gallery
I have been given a textpattern site to edit which has a really nasty hack to create a gallery. Basically, all the pictures are defined under presentation instead of content, and are stored in some random admin folder where they don’t belong, and it is essentially non-easily-reproducable. I noticed that there is a simple way to make galleries in textpattern, and a couple plugins, but I was wondering how I could make a really flashy javascript gallery like SimpleViewer using this much better paradigm.
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Re: Cool Gallery
There are tons of gallery like plugins. Depending on what you want many of them can handle it. I’m using smd_gallery along with galleria
Last edited by MattD (2008-12-17 19:38:36)
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Bear in mind that Simpleviewer isn’t a Javascript gallery, it’s Flash-based.
Also – handy hint – there’s a search engine on here…
Last edited by keith (2008-12-16 08:55:58)
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#4 2008-12-17 19:06:06
- progre55
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Re: Cool Gallery
Matt D:
I have used other Gallery plug ins with TXp, but I plan on using Galleria in my next project. Is their any trick or code you can share that makes Bloke’s smd_gallery pull images from TXP.
Thanks.
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On my form I have
<ul class="gallery">
<txp:smd_gallery category="gallery" sublevel="all" form="galimage" sort="random" />
</ul>in my form I have
<li <txp:smd_if field="{counter}" operator="eq" value="1"> class="active" </txp:smd_if>>
<img src="{thumburl}" title="{title}" alt="{title}" border="1"/>
</li>The client can add images to the “gallery” category to add them to the gallery.
EDIT: smd_if is another of Stef’s plugins which was the easiest way for me to set an active class on the first picture in the gallery.
Last edited by MattD (2008-12-17 19:37:25)
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#6 2008-12-17 19:42:47
- progre55
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Re: Cool Gallery
Matt:
Thanks for the quick reply.
I have been doing alot of digging regarding Galleria. I am not sure how much you have picked it apart, but what I want to be able to do is something like Alex Wilson Photography
II want to have the thumbnails Glide. I want to give it the ability to run like a slideshow.
From looking around, it appearss I am not the only one! I know Alex used an older version of Galleria and others have had various levels of success. Before I dive into (ie get frustrated) have you used anything else that may deliver the same effect?
Thanks again.
progre55
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Looks like alex is using jcarousel for the glideing thumbnails.
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#8 2008-12-17 19:53:16
- progre55
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Re: Cool Gallery
Matt:
You are correct. I think I know the pieces and parts, I guess now I have to see about banging it out …
I am torn between trying to get something up and runnig with Galleria or trying to figure out a solution with: JonDesign’s SmoothGallery 2.0 ! I like galleria because of the jquery but I am open to your thoughts …. I promise not to hold you responsible for the decision ….
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Last edited by progre55 (2008-12-17 19:54:00)
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Smoothgallery is very easy to implement – I’ve had it running as the “Lightbox” in smd_slimbox.
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#10 2008-12-17 20:02:05
- progre55
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Keith:
Thanks for the input.
Can you give me a little more detail (post a sample of your code) of what you mean “running as the Lightbox” ….
Also, do you know if their is a way to make the thumbnails in SmoothGallery fall outside the image so that they do not overlap ….
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I don’t think it would be difficult to get something like on the Alex Wilson site. Which ever way you go it’s easy to get images in the outpout needed using smd_gallery.
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#12 2008-12-17 20:05:18
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Re: Cool Gallery
Matt:
I hope you are correct.
I will let you know.
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