A new gallery manager : Album

[Mesmer]

#1 upload the album module
#2 install the module by going to the modules area in your admin and install the Album module there
#3 after this there should be a tab called ' photo albums'  under 'content'
#4 use the default cmsms images uploader to upload your images
#5 use the forementioned 'photo albums'  tab to create an album and to select which images you want to add to it.

[dam]

Hello kyriacos.

Yes, ther should be an admin area, in Content>>Photo Albums.
Images are to be uploaded in uploads/images, the normal location for images in CMSMS. To upload them, you can use CMSMS Image manager, FTP or album module.

[Elijah Lofgren]

It would be great if the picture upload has multiple upload fields (this is one for the cmsms crew)

I agree that this would be an AWESOME feature!
There is a feature request for it filed here: http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/tracker/in ... 6&atid=104
It's dated November 2005. Hmm... If I ever get around to it maybe I should try adding this feature.

[Dr.CSS]

Hey dam
why no matter what i do with my template i keep getting this when i have a page with Albums on it,,



Album Name

Album Comment



Original,,

link}"> thumbnail}" />

{$album->name}

{$album->comment}


Mine,,


{$album->name}

{$album->comment}

link}"> thumbnail}" />

is there some kind of .php some where that i can't find, i've looked thru the whole folder.

    mark

never mind i figured out that you can have two templates and the one that is set under templates in the "* Current template:" drop down box affects the look of the page of albums.

[dam]

Hello Maksbud,

I'm not sure I understand well your problem.
Do you speak about a page which include an {cms_module name="album"} tag, or a page which content type is "album" ?

By default, when a page displays multiple albums, the module uses "default" template to show them. To overwrite this, you can use "template" option in tag (for example : {cms_module name="album" albums="1,2" template="mytemplate"}), or in case of an album type page, use the template option.

Does this solve your problem ?

[Dr.CSS]

say i have page it has 3 albums on it go to page you see 3 albums, the template that says how these albums look on that page is set in the
"* Current template:" drop down box on the 'Content » Photo Albums' pages second tab that says 'Templates' showing a list of templates, if you have made more than one like me, this page starts with the default template and lets you "Add a template",  i made new templates which i thought would control all aspects of the 'Album' pages, i tried to put the albums in a row instead of stacked and move the name and comment above the img., i have done what i wanted once i new about that drop down choice, as can be seen here Album, but thanks for getting back so quick.
BTW i tried V3.0 but it messed with what i have now, so back to V1.2

    mark

[dam]

Hello maksbud,

Perhaps is it due to my bad understanding of english, but I don't understand your problem. Please help me to understand, cause if there is a bug, I don't wan't to let a bug non fixed 

Here is the priority list for displaying template :
1) if an album is chosen (clicked), it is the template linked to this album that is used
2) if no album is chosen, it is the template defined in module call that is used : {cms_module...  template="mytemplate"}
3) else, it is the template defined in "* Current template:" in the "templates" tab of Album module.

The difference between release "0.1.2" and release "0.3.0" is the point 2) which wasn't in release "0.1.2".
So perhaps the problem is in your module call : {cms_module...  template="mytemplate"}. If the option "template" is defined in this module call, default template defined in templates tab will not be used.

Could you give me the way the call the module to confirm that point ?

[Dr.CSS]

No problem just didn't know about any of this as it's not documented in the 'help'

the priority list for displaying template :
1) if an album is chosen (clicked), it is the template linked to this album that is used
2) if no album is chosen, it is the template defined in module call that is used : {cms_module...  template="mytemplate"}
3) else, it is the template defined in "* Current template:" in the "templates" tab of Album module.

    mark

[dam]

Well, I'll have to improve help, so 

[zsero]

I don't know if it's a bug, but album doesn't work on windows with firefox!
It generates an img src like folder/subfolder/\image.jpg, which is not a problem for IE or Opera, but it is for FF.

[dam]

I don't know if it's a bug, but album doesn't work on windows with firefox!
It generates an img src like folder/subfolder/\image.jpg, which is not a problem for IE or Opera, but it is for FF.

Le mystère s'épaissit  : il n'y a pas un seul signe "" dans le code source du module.
N'est-ce pas plutôt l'inverse ? (inversion des / et des \)

[dam]

Sorry, in english  (a bit tired this evening)

There isn't any "\" in module source code (perhaps one inf french translation actually).
Could you make a copy/paste of the problem ?

[dam]

An I have to add that for me it works on windows with FF...
deep mistery indeed

[zsero]

Strange, I uninstalled and re-installed and created a new gallery, and now the problem is gone! I will send you a html source if I catch the problem!

BTW, Thank you for this great plugin! I was trying to do all that stuff with ImageGallery (sorting, user-thumbnail, user-comment), and had some idea how to hack it, but Album has it from start! Congrats!

[Elijah Lofgren]

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

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.

Ted just helped me get Album to have clean URLs. 
Once I upgrade to the latest Album I plan to post the patches for clean URLs here.