A new gallery manager : Album

[jah]

I agree with your concerns. A good way to to this would be if both the File manager and Image Manager were modules that could be used by other modules. That way the Album module could integrate the Image Manager module, and there would be no need for another Image Manager or File Manager.

Jon

[katon]

If you are talking about image upload, it would probably be unnecessary.  Personally I liked your idea to use selectively images/directories created with image manager.  That's a wise decision, and I think you should keep it this way.

If you are talking about thumbnail generation, I would say that this is necessary when you upload images with FTP.  In this case, you just choose an image, don't choose a thumbnail, and then the thumbnail is generated and indexed by the gallery when the gallery page is first opened.  This is how it's implemented in PiPictures.

Hope it makes sense.

[dam]

Good idea,Katon.
The perfect way to do that would be to use Image Manager functions to create thumbnails when needed.

[Dr.CSS]

Hey dam
Hope you don't mind i've messed with your Album, 
This is my take on it Album let me know what you think,,

    mark

[katon]

Maxbud, Dam: Maybe you guys could put your efforts together in releasing the next version of the Album?  That would be great!

[dam]

Hello maksbud.

Very nice design.
Next release will include a change to let $albums tag available, even when an album is already chosen : it's a pretty good idea.
Did you make any other modification ?

[Dr.CSS]

i think you'll notice a little difference,, 

{if $albumcount>0}

     

  My Mod of Dams Album

       
     



{foreach from=$albums item=album}

link}"> thumbnail}" />

{$album->name}

{$album->comment}


{/foreach}




{else}
{if $returnlink}Return To Albums{/if}

{if $pagecount>0}

Previous Album  
{if $link.page.previous}3< 4{/if}
page {$pagenumber}/{$pagecount}
{if $link.page.next}5 >6{/if}
   Last Album

{/if}
{foreach from=$pictures item=picturesrow}

{foreach from=$picturesrow item=onepicture}

link}"> thumbnail}" />

{/foreach}

{/foreach}


     
 
 
     
       
  Click for Large Image

       
     
       

{if $picturecount==0}No image{/if}
{/if}

{if $picture->id>0}

Last  
{if $link.picture.previous}Prev.   {/if}
Picture {$picturenumber}/{$picturecount}
{if $link.picture.next}   Next {/if}
&nbsp  Last



{$picture->name}
{$picture->comment}
picture}" target="_blank"/>picture}" >

{/if}

this is the template,,


     

  {title}

       
     

  {content} the tag is in this
       
     



so that i get a separation of the galleries and where they are going to be shown and the thumbs and large img. so i guess you could make the large img. show up anywhere on the page that you put the , a couple of s look redundant that's because it depends on what part of the gallery your looking at, just the list of galleries or the thumbs with the large img., notice the large img. is clikable to give you the full size img. in a diff page "target_blank",, oh boy what fun  i also thru in some "classes" to help with styling and used words instead of the >> << for prev. next.
While i was at it i changed the comment module along the same lines, if there was not a comment on that page it would just show "add a comment" with no box underneath it, when you add a comment the words "add a comment" are replaced by the captcha img.

    mark

[thing]

Just wanted to drop by here and thank Dam for his marvellous help this evening ... had a few problems getting Album to work properly, mailed the fellow, and with patience and manners he sorted it.

What a community! It's clear I've picked the right CMS for this project ( www.froxexchange.com/cms/ ) after looking at so many.

Thanks again, Dam. Top bloke!

Greg

[Elijah Lofgren]

Next release will include a change to let $albums tag available, even when an album is already chosen : it's a pretty good idea.
Did you make any other modification ?

Hi dam,

Would you mind enabling SVN access to your module like many other modules do?
I fould like to follow How to submit your changes to modules or the core and easily be able to create patch files for Album.

Thanks for making such a great module! 

[dam]

Hello Elijah,
The point is that, I don't use SVN at all : I do modifications directly on my test website by FTP.
But if you have patch to submit, just send it to me and I'll do my best 

Hello Greg, happy to see that your site works fine.

[katon]

Dam, you could give somebody else administrator permissions to maintain the svn version.

[dam]

Yes, it's an idea for the future, Katon 

Hey folks, release 0.3.0 is online.
It introduces a new content type for page : "album".
It will be easier to show albums with that...

[Elijah Lofgren]

Yes, it's an idea for the future, Katon 

Hey folks, release 0.3.0 is online.
It introduces a new content type for page : "album".
It will be easier to show albums with that...

Cool. I'm moving all my websites to CMSMS and I plan to use Album for the pictures.
Thanks for creating Album and sharing it with us. 

[Mesmer]

I´m also very impressed with Album and started using it for my cmsms sites.

It would be great if the picture upload has multiple upload fields (this is one for the cmsms crew)
and for Album if it would be possible to add comments to the picures.

[kyriacos]

I've uploaded the xml file and installed Album.
Then I ticked "Use Album" under group permissions.

now what happens?

In the help page it states:

To show albums in a page, just put this code :

{cms_module module="album" albums="1,3"}

The code above allows you to show in a page albums whose IDs are 1 and 3 for example. If you do not provide paramater "albums", it will show all the albums.

Where do I upload the pics? Is it under modules/Album/images/? How do I create albums and give them id's? Shouldn't there be an Admin area somewhere?

Am I missing something here?