New Version of Gallery

[fjord]

I also get a missing mod_gallery_setting s error message when trying to install the new 1.8 version of the Gallery. I have WB 2.6.4, PHP 4.4.2 and MySql 3.23.58.

I have traced the problem to the create table command for mod_gallery_setting s in the file install.php. In the Gallery 1.7 version, the section_id parameter is defined int not null, but not in the 1.8 version, here it is defined only int. Used as key, this seems to not be allowded.

There are several changes in table definitions from version 1.7 to 1.8 that should be checked against the programmers intention.

Personally I prefer the 1.7 version because this is more true against the "WB attitude": keep it simple, but effective. The new 1.8 version have to many settings that should be hidden for a "casual administrator", maybe only accesible for the system administrator.

Fjord

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

yes we made changes at the install scripts to get them better working with mysql 4 and mysql 5. As we now recognize is that these changes affects that the install scripts in spezified configurations with mysql 3 causes problems. At the moment the only solution is to have different install scripts wich the user have manually to activate depending on the mysql version. Better is i think a solution wich does this automaticly. But i don't konw how to programm this. Maybe another php freak can giv a hint.

Matthias

[Ivanov]

I tried to use the last version but I can't upload any image
I browse image, fill all fields, click thu btton and nothing. "Successfull" msg, but no pictures showed. With older version I have no problems.

[rsmith]

Any luck Ivanov?

I've set up a new server and had no isses installing and adding images to the Gallery..

Step buy step....
On the page with the Gallery section
Click "Add Image"
Give it a "Title" and "Alt/Title"
Browse and selecet the file
Give it a Description if you wish....
and click "save"

This should add the first image to your gallery.... You can add as many as needed.

You can Add a "sub Image" by first clicking on the image you wish to add more pictures to... this will bring you to edit this image, then click the additional Image "Add Image" button

Fill in the fields as before and this creates a sub image so when the first parent image is clicked you get additional images listed below it that you can click thru....


The only "issue" I can see and will correct for the next version is the addtitional image "add image" button should not be visible unless the first image is already been uploaded....


Hope this helps... I can send you more info if needed...

Rob

[cocoa]

hi, first I'm really sorry if this has been covered already, it was hard to find very much in the last 6 pages.
I just installed the image gallery and I think it's great, I uploaded the closest images I have to hand and found a slight problem:

a png image i uploaded, had it's suffix changed from png to jpg (i have no idea how much of the actual formatting was changed) but the link still points to a png, so the alt attribute is shown...
in my .gallery folder there is image12.png, main12. jpg and thumb12.jpg . strangely, the source for the thumb points to thumb12.jpg , but when the image is clicked to see it fullsize, I get source pointing to main12.png ... any ideas on a simple way to fix this?

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

the .png support is one of the newest features and was (i think) never tested if it works correct. So you can see all your thumbs and pictures, the only issue is that the module creates thumb jpg from a png. Is that right? And your question is if its possible to create thumb png from png files?

Matthias

[cocoa]

Hello,

the .png support is one of the newest features and was (i think) never tested if it works correct. So you can see all your thumbs and pictures, the only issue is that the module creates thumb jpg from a png. Is that right? And your question is if its possible to create thumb png from png files?

Matthias

no, not really. I don't mind whether it changes the original png to jpg or not. It works fine with the thumb, makes thumb12.jpg and the image is displayed. But if you click the thumb to see the full size image, you get file not found (well actually you see the alt attribute...) because the img element points to main12.png, when it should point to main12.jpg

[rsmith]

Hi.
Attached is Gallery v1.9a with he png linking issues above corrected.

the Gallery module uses jpg for the thumbnail and resized image, and uses the original image as the full sized view...

Rob

edit
new version here:
http://forum.websitebaker.org/index.php/topic,4139.msg26007.html#msg26007

[cocoa]

thanks a lot for the extremely quick reply

[baZzz]

Hi all,

I just downloaded Image Gallery 1.9a from the modules repository and tried to install it to a clean WB 2.6.4 install. Although I got the notification 'Installed successfully', the table `mod_gallery_images` was missing, causing the Gallery to malfunction, obviously. I found out that line 27 from install.php reads:

Code:

. '`image_id` INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 0 AUTO_INCREMENT,'

I removed the 'DEFAULT 0', so it changes to:

Code:

. '`image_id` INT NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,'

and the install performed fine again.

P.S. I have attached the fixed version to this message.

[ruebenwurzel]

ooooops

my failure. Rewrite the installscripts of 8 modules for better working with mysql5 strict mode. There you need for int fields a default value. Seems i added a default value to the auto incerement fields too. Fixed this in all modules and uploaded the fixed versions to the addons repository.

Thanks

Matthias

[virtual3]

How can I remove underlining of images?

The Image Gallery module generates code that encloses both the image thumbnails and title link in an <a> tag. The result is, that the image, in most browsers, is underlined. This is fine for the text link, but a line under each thumbnail looks odd.

Of course, I am able to remove all styling for both text links and images, but not just images.

Take a look here for an example...
http://www.zuzabooks.com/pages/titles/story-satchels.php

I have tried using my css to remove it, but to no avail. Here are examples of code I have, unsuccessfully tried so far...

• a > img.thumbnail {text-decoration: none;}
• img .thumbnail a:link {text-decoration: none;}
• a img {text-decoration: none;}
• a img {border:0;}
• img:link, img:vsited {text-decoration: none;}

Please can anyone help!

My current system:
Image Gallery 1.9c
WB 2.6.4

[kweitzel]

you just need to style the class thumpnail: "thumbnail" ... since it uses no direct formating or inline style sheets, you should be able to define the class in your CSS file.

cheers

Klaus

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

and don't do this in the screen.css of the template, do it in the settings of the gallery modul.

Matthias

[virtual3]

Thanks for the suggestions.

However, I have tried to style the .thumbnail class image (see my post above), but as both the image and link is wrapped in

Code:

<a href>....</a>

then the css doesn't seem to work, even using desendant and child selectors.

The code generated by Image Gallery stricktly should have an individual

Code:

<a href="..."></a>

for the image and one for the text. If this is done then the css styling works.

To remove any ambiguity I have isolated the problem, by removing all the css and just retaining the minimum html. The following html is taken from the code generated from Image Gallery without touching the default settings. For clarity I have removed the table structure etc.

For the life of me I haven't been able to 'switch off' the underlining for the graphic only. Surely there must be a way?

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Styling Challenge</title>

<style type="text/css"> */ <!-- Suggestions here --> /*</style>

</head>
<body>

<!--

** html generated by Image Gallery 1.9c **

** Taken from page http://www.zuzabooks.com/pages/titles/story-satchels.php **

** Can you suggest what css syntax will remove the default underline, as applied to the image, while retaining the text underlining? **

-->
<p>
<a href="http://www.zuzabooks.com/pages/gallery/ellio-inside27.php" title="Alt title ellio inside">
<img src="http://www.zuzabooks.com/media/.gallery/thumb27.jpg" alt="Alt title ellio inside" "" border="0" class="thumbnail" />
<br />
Retain the Title underline. Remove the image underline
</a>
</p>

</body>
</html>

[kweitzel]

you are right ... you need to switch off the underlining of the complete link for it to work ... the image (thumpnail) is part of the link.

cheers

Klaus

[virtual3]

Yeeeow! Nasty stuff.

There needs to be a modification to the module php template to wrap individually the image and the title link.

Who can do that? I am a novice at php and will probably get it wrong. Save me Jesus.

[kweitzel]

Yeeeow! Nasty stuff.

nope ... do it with CSS ... that's what it is there for.

cheers

Klaus

[virtual3]

Dear Klaus,

Due to the idiosyncrasies of the generated html, css styling is stymied. I, and several of my developer friends, have tried to target the .thumbnail class, but to no avail.

My original post http://forum.websitebaker.org/index.php/topic,1201.msg27578.html#msg27578 was a call for help specifically asking HOW to style this code.

So the question remains, what exactly do you have to write in the css to 'switch off' the image underlining and keep the text underling.

I am sure there is a genius out there somewhere that can crack this one.

Is there hope for us mere mortals?

[kweitzel]

the solution will be not to style the thumbnail class, but the link itself with it's pseudo class.

A bit like this here:

Code:

a { text-decoration: none; }

now if you take this code, it will style all of your links ... so you might want to play around a bit with position and/or direct formatting in the settings of the page, like Matthias suggested.

Using direct formatting it would look like:

Code:

<a style=" text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.zuzabooks.com/pages/gallery/ellio-inside27.php" title="Alt title ellio inside">

cheers

Klaus

[virtual3]

Great Stuff. However, I already have used this and it switches off ALL underlining.

How do I keep the underling on the text?

Any ideas?

[kweitzel]

edited above!!!

[virtual3]

Nice try, but I have just put it in using the 'settings' on that page for Image Gallery and it doesn't work.

According to the cascade rule the locally styled text should override all other styles. However, it doesn't work as the <a href> is wrapping both the text and the image in one statement. Good html practice recommends each statement be wrapped individually.

My god this is the most difficult css problem I have ever faced.

[rsmith]

Hi
edit the settings of the gallery.....
within the "loop" adjust the format as you wish.... so you should be able to adjust both items.... 1, the underline of the image... 2, the wish to have 2 links, one for the image.. one for the text

ie:

Code:

<td>
<center>
<a href="[LINK]" title="[ALTTITLE]" style="text-decoration:none;">
[THUMB]
</a>
<br>
<a href="[LINK]" title="[ALTTITLE]">
[TITLE]
</a>
</center>
</td>

hope this helps......

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

based on a thread from the german subforum, where are described some html output issues, we made version 1.9d of the image gallery. There are no new features only a few bugfixes.

You can download the ne version on our addons page:
http://addons.websitebaker.org/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=30

How to update from previous versions?
For all versions major then 1.8 simply install the new version over the existing version.

Have fun

Matthias