A new gallery manager : Album

[Gregor]

Would it be an idea to create a database with tags for all modules and their corresponding translations in various languages? I can think of the functional design of it, don't know how to programm it 

[Elijah Lofgren]

Would it be an idea to create a database with tags for all modules and their corresponding translations in various languages? I can think of the functional design of it, don't know how to programm it 

It already exists: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/forum/foru ... d=425 

Only problem is that I don't know how to make Album use it. 
I should look into it.....
Update: Yay!  I found out how to get the lang files for Album from the translation center on this page: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/forum/foru ... rum_id=425
It turns out people had done about 6 more translations of Album.
Gregor, I think if you join the dutch translation project: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/project/re ... roup_id=63
then you can login to: http://translations.cmsmadesimple.org/ and edit translations for the Album module.

[Russ]

Elijah, as promised, some 'funky' and some 'very funky' new Templates, CSS and some JavaScript for Album. I've tried to duplicate the look of the ImageGallery 'photo' like feel in the 'ImageGallery' template. The 'Thickbox' one is so named after the funky ajaxy stuff it uses. Probably best just to have a look.

http://www.cms.shoesforindustry.net/cmsmodules/album/

The CD cover album uses the 'ImageGallery' template listed above, the 'Metal Photo' gallery uses the 'Thickbox' template and scripts.  Both templates uses un-ordered lists, a div for the big picture and formatting in CSS - so you can change it quite easily.

Phew, that took a lot longer than I thought, not least because our test web site's 'Jello' design needed a bit of re-arranging.

Enjoy,

Russ

P.S. Please let me know how you get on with testing, especially in IE 7.

[Dr.CSS]

ah WHOOOPS i looked and added a comment and it seemed like it didn't take so i cliked again...
might want to delete the extras... 
must be a little lag in the rendering of the comment...sorry

[Russ]

Hi Mark, I've deleted the extra ones, looks like our server is a bit overloaded mmmm....

So what do you think?

Russ

[Elijah Lofgren]

So what do you think?

Hi Russ,
Those templates are really great! 
I really like the one used here: http://www.cms.shoesforindustry.net/album/2/80/

I plan to make them be installed along with Album today.

Thank you very much!

[Dr.CSS]

simply....Awsome!

[Elijah Lofgren]

Elijah, as promised, some 'funky' and some 'very funky' new Templates, CSS and some JavaScript for Album. I've tried to duplicate the look of the ImageGallery 'photo' like feel in the 'ImageGallery' template. The 'Thickbox' one is so named after the funky ajaxy stuff it uses. Probably best just to have a look.

These wonderful new templates are now in Album SVN: http://viewsvn.cmsmadesimple.org/viewsv ... m&view=rev
If anyone installs or upgrades (you don't need to reinstall) to the SVN version of Album they will have these templates added.

P.S. Please let me know how you get on with testing, especially in IE 7.

I'm not going to test in IE 7, I don't know of an easy way to install it on Linux. They seems to work fine in IE6 under wine though.

Thanks again Russ! 

[Elijah Lofgren]

I would like a modification to the "open in new page" option.  I want the clicked image to popup, but to only show the image itself with the title and comment etc. but without the menu and the rest of my site.

I don't know of any "open in new page" option in Album. Perhaps you are confusing the Album module with the built-in ImageGallery tag?

Edit the template to add target="blank" to the clicked thumbnail - but this alone is not sufficient.

The new Thickbox template from Russ should do exactly what you want. It shows full size pictures in a AJAX Javascript popup with just the title and description. 

[zsero]

How is it possible to use Album and cmsms's content together?

Problem: if I put the module into page's content it works like any other tag (puts something into the content). But Album has hyperlinks inside itself, so if I click on a link it sends me to a new page which is generated by the modul and doesn't have a clue about original {content}.

For better explanation have a look at the actual page (works only with FF at the moment). If you click on any thumbnail, the main text "Családi ház1" disappears, because we are translated to a new page. Any idea how to solve that? I tried {content} inside the album template but my webserver crashed Any idea? I need the thumnails and the actual picture to appear in a non-rectangular "L"-shape, and I don't know what is the best way to implement it.

http://sporaarchitects.hu/video/site/in ... aladi_haz1

[Elijah Lofgren]

How is it possible to use Album and cmsms's content together?

Problem: if I put the module into page's content it works like any other tag (puts something into the content). But Album has hyperlinks inside itself, so if I click on a link it sends me to a new page which is generated by the modul and doesn't have a clue about original {content}.

The latest SVN version of Album now does this. The content from the page which Album was called will be displayed above the pictures. For an example see here: http://www.elijahlofgren.com/pictures/west-africa/
This is the content of the page:

Visiting West Africa was a new and different experience. Hopefully these pictures will help you understand a little of what it was like.
{cms_module module="album" albums="1"}

You'll notice that that text is now even displayed on a picture page such as this one: http://www.elijahlofgren.com/pictures/w ... album-1/3/

2. Related clean url's, the album is always from the root and not from the page which originates it. For example...
...http://localhost/callpage/1/70/...

That is a very good idea! I asked Ted and it sounds like it would be doable. I've filed a feature request for that (http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/tracker/in ... 7&atid=728) and added it to my kdissert computer todo list. I'll hopefully get around to trying that soon.

Did this get done yet? I was thinking also it might be better to give galleries / albums names. It would make more sense in a url? e.g. ...http://localhost/callpage/holidayfrance/1/...

This has now been added in the latest SVN version of Album. For an example see the pages linked to farther up in this post.
To get a URL like:

http://localhost/callpage/holidayfrance/album-1/2/

Just create a page with an alias of "holidayfrance" as a child of a page with an alias of "callpage".
And in your page content for the "holidayfrance" page put something like this:

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

That is how it is done on the pages linked to farther up in this post.

Note: The latest SVN version of Album requires the latest SVN version of CMSMS. There will not be another release of Album until CMSMS 0.14 final is released because I don't want to release a version that depends on an unreleased version of CMSMS.
You can get the lastest SVN version of CMSMS here: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/scm/?group_id=6
You can get the latest SVN version of Album here: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/scm/?group_id=167

Please let me know if you find any problems.

Enjoy,

Elijah

Edit: Changed URL from: /pictures/west-africa/1/3/ to /pictures/west-africa/album-1/3/ to fix interference with the News module's pretty URLs.

[zsero]

The latest SVN version of Album now does this. The content from the page which Album was called will be displayed above the pictures. For an example see here: http://www.elijahlofgren.com/pictures/west-africa/

Guys, I'm just pissed off with the speed of CMSMS developement!!! I just had a problem and the solution is in the newest SVN!

Keep goin'!!!!

[Mesmer]

The latest SVN version of Album now does this. The content from the page which Album was called will be displayed above the pictures. For an example see here: http://www.elijahlofgren.com/pictures/west-africa/

Guys, I'm just pissed off with the speed of CMSMS developement!!! I just had a problem and the solution is in the newest SVN!

Keep goin'!!!!

ehm, and because of that you are pissed off? 

[zsero]

Oh, I just wanted to mean I'm amazed... (somewhere I heard it in this context, but sorry my english sux... I've checked it now...)

[zsero]

How can I get the files via SVN?
devforge http method gives error, and svn client (tortoise svn) says "error * REPORT failed on ..."