Swift Image Gallery

[Stefan]

My first module release for Website Baker is ready:
Swift Image Gallery version 0.1 (based on Imagal from sadbastard.org).
At this stage, customization is very limited, the admin backend far from being perfect, there is no check whatsoever if the files in the gallery folder are actually images and it's really only sensibly used with images that fit in the web page in original size... but hey, it works without ImageMagick and GD!
Check it out to see if you have a use for it - and learn why it's named swift!
If anybody finds it useful (in principal) I might actually go on and improve it...
Suggestions and comments are very welcome!

This work was sponsored by Jim Hudgens - thanks, mate!

[fienieg]

Looks good stefan..
It still needs some work. But it works,

Thanks stefan (and jim   )

[hudge]

Thanks again and please let us know if this is worth developing further or if I am the only knuckle head using it.

[fienieg]

Thanks again and please let us know if this is worth developing further or if I am the only knuckle head using it.

I'm using it, but it just needs some tweaking  

[Stefan]

Thing is: It is very easy to modify view.php to suit everyone's specific needs (i.e. change properties or position of thumbnails).
To implement this kind of customization into the admin backend requires a little more thought which is why I'd only do it if people are generally interested in this kind of simple gallery.

For everyone who does not want to check it out:
The point is that a couple of images get preloaded and displayed as thumbnails. The image being displayed is switched using the visibility property, which means practically instantaneous (in particular without having to reload the page). This is not meant to be used like other full-fledged gallery solutions, but more in a portfolio kind of way.

So what's your thoughts about this?

@Jim: Do you have that link of your photographer friend again, so people see what I mean.

[Craig]

@Stefan: There are photos on my website, drop me a message if you want them in a ZIP  

[Stefan]

Thanks, Craig, I was asking Jim for a specific website, not just for nice pics. It's the kind of presentation where my mod would be useful.

[Craig]

Ah okay, just thought you wanted some random stuff to test galler(y/ies) out  

[hudge]

Perfect explaination Stefan. It is more a quick way of making a portfolio. I resize my picss in photoshop first so they are all the same size. (Under File > Automate > Web gallery is a fast way)

Here is the link of what we were trying to reproduce:

http://www.gnlphoto.com/gnl_portfolio_main/gnl_portraits/gnl_portraits.html

[Hans]

Hi Stefan,
thanks for this script. It works fine except that when I try to display pictures that are in a folder above media (e.g. media/Plaatjes) they are not visible, although there are some pictures in there. I have tried different chmod settings and downloaded - deleted - uploaded media/Plaatjes folder because I was'n the owner.
WB runs smoothly and so does Swift except for this issue.

EDIT It works fine now I placed the pictures in a new directory in the root of WB and not in a /media/subdirectory

[Stefan]

So somebody is actually using it?
If so, I will improve it a bit, make a nice language file, add some more options (thumbs per row, thumbs size, etc), use pure CSS layout for display, etc...

[ruebenwurzel]

I need a Gallery for one of my projects. Pickle-Gallery needs imagemagic and with the other WB-gallery-modul I had problems. (see threads with .jpg couldn't be uploaded). So the only thing that aktually works fine is your swift-gallery.

What I'm looking for is a gallery, where i have a Site only with thumbnails and when you click on it you get the original-picture on a new site. For to show you what i mean, look at the Picturesite of my Bands Homepage http://www.runaway-music.de/bilder.html . This is actually a static-html coded page, but i want to create this site with the best CMS I've ever seen , as soon as WB has and gallery-modul that works, and as soon the guestbook-modul from Phil is ready.

[cman]

scry would be a good alternative to pickle.

it's quite equal to pickle but uses GD to resize the pics.

Maybe someone could code an admin-interface....

[jschor]

I think this script is very good for showing a portfolio of not to many images in a nice way. So answering Stefan's question if somebody is using it I can say i think people will do that. I will certainly use it. There are a few problems when i try the script. I cannot show images from a subdirectory of media (media/subdirectory). I would be nice if this could be solved. Second, when i tried to change the css file i could not do that because of permissions. When i tried to change the permissions to make it writable this was not possible???
It would also be nice to upload a whole directory at once. Is this option by the way somewhere in WB?
Also tried the gallery module, but when i click on the image the page cannot be found. Does anyone know a solution for this??
I must say that i like WB very much. I don't have any php-knowledge and tried several cms-scripts (mambo, etomite, phpwcms etc) and found WB the easiest not only to maintain but also build new websites. Very flexible. I am looking forward to version 3.
At this moment I am still playing around with WB trying to build my current  site with WB. You can see the (test) result on http://www.hjvisuals.nl/wb

[taz]

i cant install it. can u put the mysql database install into a text file please. i am gettin errors.

[fienieg]

why can't you install? And what kind of error's could you post them here!
Hopefully we can sort things out!

[Marty]

I run a hosting company and have a bunch of clients that are photographers.  If this gallery module could be updated to allow image upload from the admin backend, etc, etc, I think I could convert a lot of my "newbie" website users to Website Baker.  This could be an ideal solution for them.

[jameso]

I am very interested in this mod.

I have at least 1 client site that I'm planning on using WB for, and it will need some kind of gallery.

James

[Hans]

Just look at Stefan's website where you can download it:
http://stefan-braunewell.de/wb/pages/other_downloads.php

[Stefan]

Wow, this is an old question, but still unanswered...

I cannot show images from a subdirectory of media (media/subdirectory). I would be nice if this could be solved.

Probably you were just forgetting the trailing slash. It should be "media/subdirectory/".

Second, when i tried to change the css file i could not do that because of permissions. When i tried to change the permissions to make it writable this was not possible???

This is a general problem with modules. You have to edit it before uploading. This is something that will probably change in WB3.

It would also be nice to upload a whole directory at once. Is this option by the way somewhere in WB?

As far as I know there is no way to upload directories over the browser at all. So this limitation is beyond WB's reach.

[Hans]

Cite: This is a general problem with modules. You have to edit it before uploading. This is something that will probably change in WB3.
I was able to edit the CSS in my FTP client though...  although Apache was the owner.
Sometimes when I have problems it helped to download the file, delete it from the server en re-upload it. That way the file has myself as owner (is that the correct term?) instead of Apache.
I tried it with the CSS from Swift (didn't try to edit it before down/uploading) and the owner changed from 99 to 3122XX, that way at least I could edit it. (I'm using GlobalScape as FTP client)
Maybe this helps .. maybe it has nothing to do with it but then one could use this trick maybe at some other opportunity.
Hans

[jschor]

to stefan:
Thanks for your reply. I will try it out. In april you asked if somebody is actually using it and if so you would improve it a bit, make a nice language file, add some more options (thumbs per row, thumbs size, etc), use pure CSS layout for display, etc...

Are you planning to do some work on this module because it looks very nice and i will certainly use it (and i think many others)

[Stefan]

Sorry, no changes are planned for the near future... I just don't have the time to do it.

[danf.1979]

Sorry, but I dont get how to add images into a working gallery. I got the gallery in directory media/general full of pictures, but nothing is displayed in the gallery page. Do i have to do something more to add them?

[N1l3Z]

First of all thanx for a great module, I like it a lot.

I have just one tiny problem, wich is that when I add a gallery to any page in the manage sections tab the module doesn't show up in the manager. The WYSIWYG-element above the module gets the "move up/down"- buttons wich is nice, It can move up and down, but I cant see the newly added gallery.

The gallery itself works fine and looks great but I would like to use this module for clients and it just HAS to show up in the sections.

I experienced this with some other modules, so it must be known why this is

Can you help me fix it?

/NileZ