A new gallery manager : Album

[Mesmer]

is there a public example available?

Actually my site is in contruction.
Do you mean an example of admin interface or public interface ?

A life working album and a screenie of the admin interface please 

[katon]

Well, Dam, you did a dam good work!    Just installed the module out of curiosity.  This is a wonderful piece of software, and I wasn't even hoping anybody would do anything like this.  Hope you will keep developing it.

Following are a few remarks and suggestions:

1) Your English lang file is missing labels changepicture and changethumbnail.
2) I would replace the text 'Change' with 'Edit Comment' where it applies to comments.
3) I would link gallery titles to the galleres as well, not only gallery thumbnails.
4) I would recommend that you automatically add image thumbnails rather than make users select an image and then a thumbnail.  It would save user's time.
5) With time, you may want to add the ability to move images between galleries.  At least I had a customer who wanted this capability.
6) In the front end, where you show gallery thumb, name, and comment, it would be great to show the number of images in the gallery.

Once again, you did a wonderful job!  Thank you for this!

[maciekm]

I can't add any album  . Using CMSMS 0.12.1

Do you have any error message ?

Ver 0.1.1 works fine. Thank you. Good job. Waiting for more

[dam]

Hello all, here comes release 0.1.2, thanks to Fardeen and Katon and all.

Some answers :
- Is this an integrated third party solution or a module developed for cmsmadesimple?
It is a development from scratch, specially for CMSMS

- If I upload images with FTP, with the module generate thumbnails for them automatically?
No, this is the work of image manager (and I'm a bit lazy  )

- I would link gallery titles to the galleres as well, not only gallery thumbnails.
My english is perhaps not very good, I didn't understand your question

- I would recommend that you automatically add image thumbnails rather than make users select an image and then a thumbnail.  It would save user's time.
Album is already supposed to do that If it doesn't work ,that's a bug

- With time, you may want to add the ability to move images between galleries.  At least I had a customer who wanted this capability.
Well, I don't have the need now. Perhaps in the future

- In the front end, where you show gallery thumb, name, and comment, it would be great to show the number of images in the gallery.
If you mean the user interface (public web site), you just have to put the tag {$picturecount} in your template if you are inside an album. If you're in the album list, the feature is not available yet, but it's a good idea for future.

[lemkepf]

Anyone got a demo so we can check it out?

[katon]

Just download it and install it. It's easy.

[linnemann]

Is there any way to show the large image in an popup (When i press the thump it has to open the pressed image in a popup). I have been trying some different things with javascript but I cant get it to work.

[dam]

Is there any way to show the large image in an popup (When i press the thump it has to open the pressed image in a popup). I have been trying some different things with javascript but I cant get it to work.

Yes you can. You just have to modify template (or duplicate default template before modify it)
There is a line contaning :

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<a href="{$onepicture->link}"> <img src="{$onepicture->thumbnail}" /> </a>

You just have to change it by :

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<a href="{$onepicture->picture}" target="_blank"> <img src="{$onepicture->thumbnail}" /> </a>

Or in xhtml strict :

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<a href="{$onepicture->picture}" onclick="window.open(this.href); return false;"> <img src="{$onepicture->thumbnail}" /> </a>

[vinke]

A very good script... I need extra functionality though, before I can use it:

1. Different tag for each individual picture
2. Different meta keywords and description for each page
3. Clean(er) URL's

Hope you can consider these requests in your next release. Otherwise very good work!

/Erik

[dam]

Hello vinke,

Thank you for your heartening comment.

I am not very optimistic concerning the modifications you ask for. Actually, I have no idea how to procede to modify title tag or meta keywords, or to clean urls.

[God_Zilla]

If you want the picture to popup without toolbars and scrollbars. Insert this code instead

picture}" onclick="window.open(this.href, '', 'height=650,width=850,left=50,top=50,screenX=50,screenY=50'); return false" target=_blank  href="window.open(this.href)">thumbnail}" alt="" border="1">

Work perfect for me.

[andrewtf]

Nice module! Question: Is there a way to change the size of the thumbnails generated by Album? Perhaps I'm just missing it.

As a wishlist item it would be nice to be able to add gallery images from within the module rather than have to add them via image manager first and then organize them into albums. I think that would make it easier for people editing the site and adding content in the future.

[dam]

Nice module! Question: Is there a way to change the size of the thumbnails generated by Album? Perhaps I'm just missing it.

As a wishlist item it would be nice to be able to add gallery images from within the module rather than have to add them via image manager first and then organize them into albums. I think that would make it easier for people editing the site and adding content in the future.

Thank You Andrew.
Concerning the size of thumbnails, it is defined in config file of CMSMS Image Manager. You can find it in \lib\filemanager\ImageManager\config.inc.php.

There seems to be a lot of demands from users to include thumbnail generation and image upload in album module. But originally I didn't want to be redundant with default Image manager.
Actually, what you can do is making your own thumbnails, upload them, and define them as thumbnail for each picture in Album (that means for each picture, change thumbnail ). But today it works only if new thumbnail is smaller than Image Manager thumbnail. I will propose an alternative later I think.

[katon]

Dam, can we expect that the module to develop and new features to be added?  If yes, do you have a roadmap?

[dam]

Actually, I have no roadmap. The only one plan is to fulfill my needs as soon as possible. If I can integrate other feature requests, why not.

My actual concern is  : will I or won't I develop things that would be redundant with standard CMSMS Image manager ?