A new photo album manager : Gallery

[sykic]

Thanks Jos

Will have a look

Really impressed with this module

[corn4th]

Hi Jos,

Firstly, thanks for developing the Gallery module for CMSms. I LOVE it, things are so easy!

I have found a couple references on the Forum to getting Gallery to resize the images so that when you click on a thumbnail the Lightbox isn't bigger than the page with a high-res image. I have thousands of image and would really prefer not to resize each of them  and then re-upload to Gallery. 

Is there a way to automate this within Gallery? Am I just missing the discussion of this feature? I sure would appreaciate some help here.

Thanks

[corn4th]

Sorry, forgot to include a link. Here it is:

http://www.dmdecos.com/gallery/Stock%20 ... /Lakes/92/

[Jos]

What about just NOT using Lightbox  :D

You might want to try the Fancybox template, or Colorbox (download in the forge). They do it by default.  8)

edit:
oeh, I notice you have really big images there... they take a long time to download for your visitors.
If you want to resize them, there is nothing else to do then to reupload them with the Gallery upload function (set the maximum sizes in the options tab first) This can only be done per subgallery. Gallery will resize the pics and overwrite the big files. That way you will keep titles etc.

[corn4th]

Thanks so much! I didn't know Fancybox would do that. One other question: why do my titles appear nicely centered under the image in Firefox and over to the side unwrapped in IE? Is there a way to make IE display them like Firefox does? Also, is there a way to put them in neat rows on this page?

http://www.dmdecos.com/gallery/Stock%20Art/92/

We will consider your advice on re-sizing the images, but we don't want to sacrifice any image quality and it seems to us that reducing the resolution would do that. Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Susan

[corn4th]

Thank you, thank you, thank you! Finally got our Gallery to look like we want it to!

Susan

[Jos]

Today I am proud to announce that the Gallery module has reached the Top 10 of Project Downloads of CMS Made Simple 

See: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/

Thanks everyone! 

[luminous]

More like thanks to you  ;D

I love your module, in fact I like it so much that I have added code to my overall template header so that any image that is clicked on my site can make use of the nice surroundings that you gallery provides.

Currently all the images in my product catalogue (Products module) are using the gallery Fancybox, without any of those images having been uploaded into the gallery itself.

I'm afraid the site is not live yet, so I cannot show you how much use your work has been! It will be soon though  :)

[Aureli]

Hi,

I imagine that the success of the module is due to:

1 - the module is fantastic and has tons of easy to use features
2 - Jos does help a lot the module users and makes sure that people can make the most of it

A fantastic module from a fantastic developer.

Thanks a million Jos!!!!!!


Aureli

[technista]

Today I am proud to announce that the Gallery module has reached the Top 10 of Project Downloads of CMS Made Simple 

See: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/

Thanks everyone! 

Congratulations! I just discovered this module, and love how easy it is to set up and configure. Thanks for sharing with the community!

[nicmare]

1. Jos, where do i find ALL available template vars? ({$imagecount}, {$gallerycomment}…)
2. i have a question about detailview of a gallery:
this is my logic:
/gallery/
/gallery/album1
/gallery/album2
and so on

i embed it this way:
{gallery}

i open the page and see:
- /Gallery/ description and title
- /gallery/album1 desc and title
- /gallery/album2 desc and title

i click an album to open it and i see:
- /Gallery/ description and title
- /gallery/albumx desc and title and of course images

but what i want in this very last step:
- /gallery/albumx desc and title and of course images

finally i dont want the parent gallery description and all that stuff above my album.
when i click an album i just want the pure album with its images.
but it seems that every template starts same way and works that way.
but i want to completely isolate the overview gallery from detailed gallery
how do i solve this?

[Jos]

1. Jos, where do i find ALL available template vars? ({$imagecount}, {$gallerycomment}…)

Click on the info-icon that is right beneath the template field in the template editor screen.
I shall add it to the wiki too.

2. i have a question about detailview of a gallery:
this is my logic:
/gallery/
/gallery/album1
/gallery/album2
and so on

i embed it this way:
{gallery}

i open the page and see:
- /Gallery/ description and title
- /gallery/album1 desc and title
- /gallery/album2 desc and title

i click an album to open it and i see:
- /Gallery/ description and title
- /gallery/albumx desc and title and of course images

but what i want in this very last step:
- /gallery/albumx desc and title and of course images

finally i dont want the parent gallery description and all that stuff above my album.
when i click an album i just want the pure album with its images.
but it seems that every template starts same way and works that way.
but i want to completely isolate the overview gallery from detailed gallery
how do i solve this?

You can create a new template for the top gallery and set this template in the gallery-editor (do not use the template parameter in the {Gallery} call)

[nicmare]

this is just a simple mockup of what i want to achieve
i dont understand how to use two templates without using template parameter?!

this seems to be the right way?

[Jos]

If your example shows one page, it can be done the "Bryan" way and you can use the template parameter.

If your example shows two pages, you need to set the template for the top gallery in the gallery backend.

[nicmare]

yea, quite simple with two pages
but i dont understand your instructions