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#1 2011-02-10 23:12:59
- jmart
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- Registered: 2008-08-25
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Photo Gallery layout
I want to allow a client to upload photos . The output should render the photos as thumbnails in a grid type-manner. Say 3 rows with 5 pics per row and then pagination to view the next gallery set. When they click on the thumbnail, it will pop up via a thickbox or whatever-box.
Is there a good tutorial for this?
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#2 2011-02-11 15:19:41
- richtestani
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- Registered: 2009-11-08
- Posts: 128
Re: Photo Gallery layout
For a simple gallery, the image_list tag will work fine.
For more control try out smd_gallery
http://stefdawson.com/sw/plugins
Otherwise it’s more about your HTML/CSS skills that textpattern.
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#3 2011-02-20 17:55:54
- babyben
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- Registered: 2007-06-03
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Re: Photo Gallery layout
I’m really disappointed in Textpattern for images galleries.
Rubbish examples, documentation with mistakes or no examples at all.
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Re: Photo Gallery layout
babyben wrote:
Rubbish examples, documentation with mistakes or no examples at all.
Sounds more like you’re disappointed in the documentation. Fair enough; the tutorials on the Docs Wiki haven’t caught up to Txp 4.3.0’s new core gallery capabilities. If you don’t mind, tell us which doc pages have mistakes; give us an idea of what kind of examples you’d like to see.
I should probably add a link to this to tutorials.
Code is topiary
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#5 2011-02-27 13:54:26
- babyben
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- Registered: 2007-06-03
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Re: Photo Gallery layout
I’m frustrated that there is so many orphaned or broken plugins, and to do something as simple as a gallery is taking much longer that it should.
I’ve wasted a couple of hours going through different plugins, “examples” and found nothing that just… works.
For example, nor the smd_gallery or flickr plugins work for me. I look at smd_gallery documentation and think I need a free day to work through that. I’m sure it’s a great plugin, but I’m so fed up of finding plugins and examples that work for older version or do nothingthat I’m now really struggling to use TXP again.
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Re: Photo Gallery layout
“Just works” is very much a matter of individual preference. The image tags introduced in Txp 4.3.0 are pretty powerful, so you may not even need a plugin. How do you want your gallery to work?
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#7 2011-02-27 14:45:25
- richtestani
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- Registered: 2009-11-08
- Posts: 128
Re: Photo Gallery layout
bayben – most of the documentations are options for output. The default tags themselves are quite simple.
I am using the smd_gallery on this site (its still in testing)
http://silverton.krd-design.net/gallery
This is all I use to output
<txp:smd_gallery sublevel="all" form="image_gallery" category="gallery" sort="caption asc" />Easy to output images uploaded through textpattern, and a little JQuery/css magic, it works quite nicely.
Hope this helps.
I agree with the amount of broken links in the textpattern resources, very frustrating looking around.
I with they actually hosted the files instead.
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