smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

Bloke · 2021-07-18 10:39:48

Try the latest version of smd_lib.

Gallex · 2021-07-18 11:03:31

Bloke wrote #331054:

Try the latest version of smd_lib.

that helped, thank you!

detail · 2023-12-24 05:25:10

Happy holidays, peeps!

After some procrastination, I finally updated the last of my websites to TXP 4.8.8.

This has caused some article_image links to break.

Individual articles do render single article_images. An article_custom list sometimes does not.

The most likely reason is that I have multiple article images on occasional articles for a slideshow, separated by @.

 6027 @ 6028 @ 6029 @ 6030 @ 6031

When I look at a particular article, it still renders as a js slideshow, thanks to some clever delim=“@“ type suggestions by Bloke as part of the smd_gallery plugin. That is working in 4.8.8 as it has forever, with the slideshow doing its thing.

<txp:smd_gallery category="landing" 
    delim="@" paramdelim="|" collate="1" limit="4" sort="random"
     combo='sc_img| { url: "{url}", description: "{caption}" }'>
        images: [ {sc_img} ],
</txp:smd_gallery>

That’s great that this still works a decade later, going from 4.2 to 4.8.8.

However . . .

There’s another circumstance with an article_custom list. This has the title and excerpt but now has a broken image link.

<txp:article_custom limit="1" section="gear" sort="rand()" form="gear_list" />

The article image part of the gear_list form that is not rendering:

<div class="align-center"><txp:permlink><txp:article_image width="450px" height="208px" thumbnail="1" /></txp:permlink></div>

This used to produce a single image, the lowest ID number, no matter how many article images there were for an article. Now I get a broken link.

It looks like 4.8.8 chokes on the multiple article images.

I’m wondering how I can add limit=“1” to the article image to just get it to render the first image and ignore the @.

When I think about it, there are 100s of instances of articles with multiple article_images.

Any help gratefully accepted.

Last edited by detail (2023-12-24 05:28:23)

etc · 2023-12-24 08:33:54

Did it again, sorry :-) The idea was to allow for URLs (like https://example.com/my_image.png) in article image, but this has broken hacks. Will see how to patch it in 4.9.

Meanwhile, you can try the following:

<txp:image id='<txp:custom_field name="article_image" breakby="@" limit="1" />'
    width="450px" height="208px" thumbnail="1" />

If needed, you can add sort="rand" to <txp:custom_field /> attributes. Hope that helps.

detail · 2023-12-27 08:22:20

etc wrote #336219:

<txp:image id='<txp:custom_field name="article_image" breakby="@" limit="1" />' 
width="450px" height="208px" thumbnail="1" />

Hey thanks for the prompt response with this obscure question on a remote corner of txp.

I’ve been visiting family and travelling, so will test this tomorrow.

Let you know how it goes, but that looks plausible!

Cheers

GJ in New Zealand

detail · 2023-12-28 05:28:59

etc wrote #336219:

Hope that helps.

Sure does.

A Christmas treat.

Thanks, etc.

Amazing that my 1500+ page/6000+ image website is still chugging along 13 years later with only minor tweaks required.

Says something about the logical architecture of TXP. And the considerable efforts of The Team to maintain things.

Last edited by detail (2023-12-28 05:29:24)

maruchan · 2024-05-26 23:41:42

Hi Stef & All,

I recently made some changes to my integration of smd_gallery, and had a question:

Is there a way to link (from another page) from an image’s thumbnail, to the same image on its smd_gallery pagination page? Maybe even scrolling down to it via anchor.

Example: Please see the right-sidebar “Selections” image links here: Friendlyskies.net

Right now these will link simply to the /imagery section. But I want to do better than this if possible, and link to the image that’s been clicked on.

Possible? Thanks as always for this really helpful plugin.

Last edited by maruchan (2024-05-27 00:22:35)

maruchan · 2024-09-30 20:24:37

maruchan wrote #337235:

I recently made some changes to my integration of smd_gallery, and had a question:

Is there a way to link (from another page) from an image’s thumbnail, to the same image on its smd_gallery pagination page? Maybe even scrolling down to it via anchor.

Right now these will link simply to the /imagery section. But I want to do better than this if possible, and link to the image that’s been clicked on.
p.

Answering my own Q, but here it is in case helpful to anyone!

<txp:images category="sidebar-highlights" limit="12" sort="date desc" break="">
    <a class="item" href='https://www.example.com/imagery#img<txp:image_info type="id" />'>
        <img class="" src='<txp:site_url/>mthumb.php?src=<txp:image_url />&amp;h=1280&amp;w=1280' alt='<txp:image_info /> highlight photo' />
    </a>
</txp:images>

Now I’m just wondering how to link deeper, into the pagination, from my sidebar images at the same site…

Last edited by maruchan (2024-09-30 20:32:51)

Bloke · 2024-09-30 20:26:30

Urk, sorry I didn’t answer. I meant to and got sidetracked. Apologies, but glad you found a solution in the meantime.

maruchan · 2024-09-30 20:33:45

Bloke wrote #337904:

Urk, sorry I didn’t answer. I meant to and got sidetracked. Apologies, but glad you found a solution in the meantime.

Thanks and no worries! I know you are super busy. Now I’m just wondering how to link into the pagination, from the random images in the right-sidebar at the same site

Bloke · 2024-09-30 21:19:07

maruchan wrote #337905:

Thanks and no worries! I know you are super busy. Now I’m just wondering how to link into the pagination, from the random images in the right-sidebar

Now that is a challenge! How would you know what page the clicked image is on, short of assuming that the images are sequential and dividing the total by the number of images per page to predict the page number and injecting it in the URL as &@pg=@?

maruchan · 2024-10-01 01:42:56

Bloke wrote #337906:

Now that is a challenge! How would you know what page the clicked image is on, short of assuming that the images are sequential and dividing the total by the number of images per page to predict the page number and injecting it in the URL as &@pg=@?

I like it! And…my images aren’t sequential.

Darn!

I wonder if it’s worth running smd_gallery twice, to populate some kind of JS array on the second run, like hey, this image ID is on this page, and we use an array lookup in JS to grab the right page number and add it to the separate link from the sidebar…hmm…

Oh…I guess I don’t know if smd_gallery exposes access to some pagination counter on the tag side. Going to check!

(Thinking aloud, not meaning to annoy!)

Last edited by maruchan (2024-10-01 01:47:39)

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#961 2021-07-18 10:39:48

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

#962 2021-07-18 11:03:31

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

Bloke wrote #331054:

#963 2023-12-24 05:25:10

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

#964 2023-12-24 08:33:54

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

#965 2023-12-27 08:22:20

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

etc wrote #336219:

#966 2023-12-28 05:28:59

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

etc wrote #336219:

#967 2024-05-26 23:41:42

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

#968 2024-09-30 20:24:37

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

maruchan wrote #337235:

#969 2024-09-30 20:26:30

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

#970 2024-09-30 20:33:45

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

Bloke wrote #337904:

#971 2024-09-30 21:19:07

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

maruchan wrote #337905:

#972 2024-10-01 01:42:56

Re: smd_gallery: super-flexible gallery generator

Bloke wrote #337906:

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