Gallery for SMF 2.0

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zheobitt

January 31, 2011, 02:28:45 PM Last Edit: January 31, 2011, 02:32:25 PM by zheobitt
Ok, i just wanna take you just a quick look at my first modification for the SMF 2.0.

It's a gallery with the normal functions a gallery just should have...  ;)

What i plan:

Multiple pictures-Upload
Pictures are shown in three sizes: On most pages as thumb, on the picture-view as a midsize-picture, and after click on it, in normal-size
Different Watermarks for the picture per album
Different positions for the watermarks chooseable
Possibility for multiple delete or movement of pictures
Possibility to comment pictures
Rating pictures
Sub-Albums (up to 3)
Download album as ZIP-File
User can add albums as sub-album
User-Rights are defined in so called categories, each album can have another category
Latest Pictures are shown on the index-page of the gallery
Random Pictures are shown on the index-page of the gallery
Stats about amount of pictures, comments, etc. are shown on the index-page of the gallery

These are the first things i'll plan.

What i got till now (started yesterday):

Index-Page of the gallery (the main-page...)
5 Last Thumb-Pictures are shown on the main-page
5 Random Thumb-Pictures are shown on the main-page
View Album-Page
View Picture
Upload of 1 picture per upload possible

Next to come:
Edit picture-data
Page-Navigation
Including Text-Editor
Adding Comments

Hope, you'll like it.

Oh, yes, the pictures are in german and yes, there are some women on them (don't mind, i just had to take some pictures for testing, right)?  ;D

I'll change the language later on.

DoctorMalboro

#1
January 31, 2011, 03:35:45 PM
Nice gallery, i like the pictures... :P

You could also add the gallery to the profile or on the bottom of the signature.

zheobitt

#2
January 31, 2011, 04:00:17 PM
Still much work to do.

Gallery at the bottom of the signature? So like kind of advertisment? Maybe later.

zheobitt

#3
February 07, 2011, 12:54:18 PM
How can i add a signature? Ich checked the profile-settings, but couldn't find anything

Illori

#4
February 07, 2011, 01:17:57 PM
you can not add a signature until you get to a certain number of posts.

zheobitt

#5
February 07, 2011, 04:27:15 PM
Ah, i see. And how many postings?

Arantor

#6
February 07, 2011, 07:46:12 PM
10, I think the requirement here is.

kingkingston

#7
February 08, 2011, 04:40:54 AM
how will it be different from the other gallery mod ?

Masterd

#8
February 08, 2011, 07:21:51 AM
It's nice! ;)

zheobitt

#9
February 08, 2011, 12:09:41 PM
@kingston: I dunno. I haven't looked after the other gallery mods yet. I would say, to be fair for all, just test it, when its finished.

TomW

#10
February 08, 2011, 03:34:41 PM
I like it !  Some suggestions for you:
1. ability to display the bbcode, so that you can easily add a picture from the gallery into a post
2. ability to remove the text below the pictures
3. sub-galleries with an image, displayed in the 'main' gallery
4. from the 'main' gallery, if a user clicks on an image, they go to the sub-gallery

kingkingston

#11
February 09, 2011, 06:08:39 AM
Quote from: zheobitt on February 08, 2011, 12:09:41 PM
@kingston: I dunno. I haven't looked after the other gallery mods yet. I would say, to be fair for all, just test it, when its finished.
if you added media to it, so you could ad video's to it as well, you would be on to a winner.Nao had a aeva media mod and still does but i think he stopped the free version of it.

anyway here's the link to the gallery mod, just to give you a heads up on any ideas already not covered.
http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=473

Arantor

#12
February 09, 2011, 06:17:35 AM
Quote from: kingkingston on February 09, 2011, 06:08:39 AM
if you added media to it, so you could ad video's to it as well, you would be on to a winner.Nao had a aeva media mod and still does but i think he stopped the free version of it.

He did but only after a bucketfull of crap. It will live on, but I don't think it will for SMF users.

zheobitt

#13
February 11, 2011, 01:27:28 PM
Tomorrow i will set up a test-board so you can have a look, how far it's done. :)

You can look, but not upload.

TwitchisMental

#14
February 11, 2011, 05:46:45 PM
Just something to think about, I have noticed other gallery mods for smf are a bit large and complex.  Will this one be small and simple, if so you have yourself a user :D.

Arantor

#15
February 11, 2011, 06:08:23 PM
Speaking as someone sort of responsible for supporting Aeva, I have to say that the minute users find something 'small and simple', there are so many requests to make it more complicated. And if you want it to have a decent level of functionality, it has to be complicated.

zheobitt

#16
February 12, 2011, 02:06:14 AM
You can't keep a gallery small and simple, not from the code-side and so. On the front-end i'll try to keep it easy of use.

zheobitt

#17
February 12, 2011, 06:04:31 AM
Strange. I set up a test forum on one of my domains, but when i call up the gallery i got the message:

Unable to load the 'gallery' template.

I checked all, is's all the same as on my local testboard.

zheobitt

#18
February 12, 2011, 07:05:30 AM
O.k., got it solved. I wrote the name of template wrong. *whops*

zheobitt

#19
February 12, 2011, 07:19:50 AM
Ok, the board is setup. The adress is:

www.harald-thomsen.de/smf

The gallery is still in german, this will be changed later on. This is more to be thought of getting a first look. Lot of things still missing.

kingkingston

#20
February 13, 2011, 08:33:11 AM
its not too bad, if i click on a picture i wouldn't want it to go to a page like this
http://www.harald-thomsen.de/smf/gallery/img/1/maurice_05012011.jpg, id rather it jump out at me like the aeva media mod does, don't know what that setting is called though

AST3R1X

#21
February 13, 2011, 08:45:00 AM
Yes I prefer Highslide too  :)

kingkingston

#22
February 13, 2011, 08:52:10 AM
Quote from: AST3R1X on February 13, 2011, 08:45:00 AM
Yes I prefer Highslide too  :)
you following me around everywhere lol

Arantor

#23
February 13, 2011, 08:55:13 AM
Highslide has limitations on use, however, specifically that if your site is taking in money, even just to cover costs, you have to buy a licence.

kingkingston

#24
February 13, 2011, 09:09:48 AM
Quote from: Arantor on February 13, 2011, 08:55:13 AM
Highslide has limitations on use, however, specifically that if your site is taking in money, even just to cover costs, you have to buy a licence.
i just like it better than going to a blank page and having to click the back button

Arantor

#25
February 13, 2011, 09:18:40 AM
Yes, but do you run a site that makes any money of any kind?

kingkingston

#26
February 13, 2011, 09:21:52 AM
Quote from: Arantor on February 13, 2011, 09:18:40 AM
Yes, but do you run a site that makes any money of any kind?
i don't actually use that mod, is there a mod that provides that kind of slide like that for free ?, just trying to help this guy out.

Arantor

#27
February 13, 2011, 09:23:28 AM
Yes, Highslide does! And it's free for non-commercial use. But including it in a package is dubious for that very reason. It's why Aeva has a specific enable/disable option for it.

zheobitt

#28
February 13, 2011, 09:30:28 AM
So, you want to have the picture to be loaded inside of a lightbox, i assume? Isn't that problem.

Atm, i'm looking after the permissions. How do i check a permisson in SMF? Sorry, if i ask that much, but mostly i know only the vb-code. :)

Arantor

#29
February 13, 2011, 09:41:03 AM
QuoteAtm, i'm looking after the permissions. How do i check a permisson in SMF? Sorry, if i ask that much, but mostly i know only the vb-code.

Up to three ways depending on what you're trying to do. I'd suggest having a read of http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=345127.0 personally ;)

grafitus

#30
February 13, 2011, 09:54:30 AM
Plans are good. But I think you should try a little more on design. ;)

zheobitt

#31
February 13, 2011, 04:10:00 PM
@Arantor: For the permissions. I've to check which usergroup may have a look at an album and which not. Or may delete or move pictures or not.

@grafitus: The design will be changed, yes. But this is one of the last things.

Arantor

#32
February 13, 2011, 06:54:08 PM
In which case you're going to do what the other gallery mods did and implement your own table for tracking group access and your own UI for managing it. The tutorial I linked (and wrote) is geared for general permissions access throughout the forum and adding facilities that way.

zheobitt

#33
February 14, 2011, 03:53:06 AM
Ah, ok, i've already thought this. Mh, isn't so much a problem, i think. Thanks for the hint.

zheobitt

#34
February 14, 2011, 08:33:07 AM
O.k., i've got it. Now it's possible to define in the categories, if user may see that one, may upload, delete or move pictures. I've tested it on my local testboard and it works like charm.

zheobitt

#35
February 14, 2011, 04:33:00 PM
So, just a quick update today :)

Permissions looking good and are working like a charm. Following setting can be done per usergoup:

Check if group:
- may see an album (can be set for each album via the categories)
-may delete or move pictures (can be set for each album via the categories)
-can upload pictures (can be set for each album via the categories)
-uploaded pictures have to be moderated,
-can comment pictures,
-can edit comments,
-can delete comments,

Also it can be set, quality, height and width of thumbs, number of pictures to be uploaded, the maximum numbers of pictures which can be uploaded, maximum size, maximum width and maximum height. And if usergroup may see the gallery at all.

Oh, one explanation of those categories. Each category defines, if for example an album is only "personal", so that only a special usergroup may see the album. And so on.

Hope you like my way of doing it.

Arantor

#36
February 14, 2011, 04:35:47 PM
Sounds good to me, but as ever the proof will be in the use of it.

Masterd

#37
February 15, 2011, 04:12:24 PM
Just continue with this project! :D

zheobitt

#38
February 15, 2011, 05:06:13 PM
Tomorrow i'll post some new pics.

zheobitt

#39
February 16, 2011, 04:06:31 PM
So, here are two new pictures from the gallery.

One show's the well known album-view in the way, the admin see the album. Notice the input-fields for checkings. These are used for selectings pictures which can be moved or deleted. Normal user will not see them.

The other one shows the main-settings of the gallery (i'll post an english version later, excuses for the german words. But it's easier to do it for me this way).

Hope you like it.

kingkingston

#40
February 17, 2011, 01:51:23 PM
looking good

zheobitt

#41
February 19, 2011, 10:36:21 AM
Thanks.

I've updated my homepage.

Here a direct link for the album-view:

http://www.harald-thomsen.de/smf/index.php?action=gallery;area=viewcat;cid=1

Hope, you like this design a bit more.

What changed?

Added an admin-section (can be reached at the bottom of the gallery, viewable for anyone). ATM i don't know right, how to insert it into the standard-admin-section, so i did this way. Normaly it's only accesable for admins.

In the admin-section you can set different options, add categories or edit them and add new albums. That's so far working.

Now i'm going to work further on :-)

zheobitt

#42
February 20, 2011, 03:18:03 AM Last Edit: February 20, 2011, 03:58:48 AM by zheobitt
Oh, i've recognized that guests can't see any albums. I'll fix this soon.

[Update] O.k., Problem fixed. I've updated my homepage. If you view the pictures, you can see, that there is something new (not working atm). Over the picture you are viewing are shown 5 pictures from the album, so you can move directly through the album. As said, this isn't working for now, i will code this later this day.

yakyakyak

#43
February 20, 2011, 05:27:09 AM
Looking very nice

zheobitt

#44
February 24, 2011, 03:34:31 PM
Updates:

Built in the EXIF-Data, which can be shown under the picture. And the comment-function, for adding comments to the pictures.

zheobitt

#45
February 24, 2011, 03:41:37 PM
I thought, it would be nice to post all the things i got so far.

That's what i got (marked green is already implemented, red is todo)

Multiple pictures-Upload
Pictures are shown in three sizes: On most pages as thumb, on the picture-view as a midsize-picture, and after click on it, in normal-size
Different Watermarks for the picture per album
Different positions for the watermarks chooseable
Possibility for multiple delete or movement of pictures
Possibility to comment pictures
Rating pictures
Sub-Albums (up to 3)
Download album as ZIP-File
User can add albums as sub-album
User-Rights are defined in so called categories, each album can have another category
Latest Pictures are shown on the index-page of the gallery
Random Pictures are shown on the index-page of the gallery
Stats about amount of pictures, comments, etc. are shown on the index-page of the gallery
Edit picture-data
Page-Navigation
Including Text-Editor
Adding Comments
Show EXIF-Data of the Picture

In the admin-section:

Gallery-Settings
Categories (New categories, edit categories)
Albums (New albums, edit albums)

zheobitt

#46
February 25, 2011, 04:40:02 PM
O.k., today i built in my own pagination. Works like charm and was easy to do...

Soon i'll pack it all together and send a first version to some betatester. If someone wants?

zheobitt

#47
February 26, 2011, 09:32:45 AM
Which EXIF-Informations would you find usefull?

becometa

#48
February 26, 2011, 06:17:01 PM
I can be the testing guy :laugh:

EXIF tags? Hmm, dunno, maybe
Code Select

Date and time
FileSource
SensitivityType
Compression


there are too many of them in the EXIF documentation... I do not know what to choose.

zheobitt

#49
March 06, 2011, 04:36:34 AM
Just a quick notice: I'm working on the multi-upload, and fixing some last bugs.

Where can i find infos, how to make a package of this mod?

zheobitt

#51
April 23, 2011, 09:19:51 AM
Atm i'm very busy in my free time. So i think it'll be may before i return to this project.

lttung

#52
August 15, 2011, 02:50:58 PM
Hello, pls make: show random image from Gallery to FORUM Board index, same same here (vbb):





Thank you
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