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#31 2005-10-10 09:04:34
- boblet
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
I have the require file in my default page like so:
<code><txp:php> require(“http://mysite.com/plogger/gallery.php”); </txp:php></code>
Hey Jstubbs, check the docs
Inside the quotes should be the relative path to this specific file
seems like you need something like <txp:php> require("plogger/gallery.php"); </txp:php> (assuming that plogger is in the same folder as your TxP index.php). HTH
peace – boblet
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
Hey boblet! No the plogger folder is in the root and TXP index is in the txp folder within the root:
TXP: /txp
Plogger: /plogger
Reason is txp will be moved to the root in a couple of days, so I can test couple things first.
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
> davidm wrote:
> I wouldn’t choose ZenPhoto, too many bugs for me…
I’m using ZenPhoto and there’s nothing wrong with it. I did create a theme to match my site (so it’s not directly integrated in to the TXP interface), but it works really nicely. I like the front-end AJAX features (ala flickr).
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#34 2005-10-20 12:04:26
- davidm
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
Then I guess ZenPhoto has been updated, because I am no newbie and I couldn’t make it work (on TextDrive, that is, locally I managed to do it which is strange…). I’ll check that out, and also check the progress on Photostack
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
> davidm wrote:
> <blockquote> bizartist wrote: While we’re on the topic of galleries, do any of these have really good navigation for multiple thumbnail pages, and also the ability to include a short blurb under each of the pics on the full size image view?</blockquote>
Plogger does :-)
Just tested plogger… without talking about Txp 100% integration, plogger doesn’t seem to use css for its design… in fact there is no design at all???
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#36 2005-11-27 14:27:34
- andjules
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- Registered: 2004-10-20
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
OK, had a look at plogger. Unless I’m not thinking straight…
It uses index.php & (optionally) mod rewrite, so without some serious hacking, you’re not going to get it to really “integrate” into textpattern, where plogger content appears on a textpattern-controlled page. I could get a gallery link/thumbnail to show up (on a textpattern page), but clicking on it to get to the plogger content will link to (using plogger’s messy URLs) index.php?… where plogger thinks it’s logic is, but in reality, it’s where textpattern’s logic is. You might be able to get somewhere if it’s all on the front page, but within sections or subdirectories, everything gets confused. alternatively, if you use plogger’s clean URLs option, plogger’s & textpattern’s .htaccess rules start fighting with each other.
what it seems you can do is create some HTML based on your textpattern pages, have it call your textpattern CSS, and put that HTML + required plogger php lines in a real subdirectory as index.php, and make sure your main textpattern content has a nav to the plogger directory & vice versa. You then have a dedicated photo gallery ‘section’. Cons: plogger’s navigation and HTML need to be updated manually (if you change your textpattern sections or HTML, you’ll have to go and do it by hand in your plogger area).
I wonder if you could “include” textpattern in the plogger index.php? include your textpattern’s nav form, for example?
Last edited by andjules (2005-11-27 14:29:11)
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Re: Can you recommend the best gallery plugin for me?
While reading all the threads related to galleries or plugins, I’d like to bring up a caveat.
Easy styling, nice admin areas with Ajax and other features are all great but many of these small galleries suffer from one fatal flaw, they store all the thumbnails in one directory.
With today’s digital cameras, you can shoot 100 photos in a day very easily. Pretty soon your gallery grows and your thumbnail directory becomes unmanageable. For every picture you upload, a gallery may generate from 1 to 3 thumbnail representations. Depending on the Operating System, directories with 5000 or more files become a pain to backup, clean up or worst, read effectively.
About two years ago, I went searching for a minimal gallery app, Gallery or Coppermine were overkill for my needs. I settled on the singapore gallery, since I could ftp my images to a directory structure and it would build the thumbnails on the fly, it was ideal for my needs. Tamlyn realized the thumbnail problem a while back on singapore and the new version will keep the thumbnails in directories depending on the album structure. Photostack decided to begin anew with the singapore code base as the basis for it’s new version.
Of all the galleries, I like what I see in Plogger but it too suffers from the thumbnails in one directory syndrome as does ZenPhoto.
Even though you think your gallery won’t grow, it will, trust me.
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