Gallery for SMF 2.0

zheobitt · January 31, 2011, 02:28:45 PM

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)?

I'll change the language later on.

DoctorMalboro · January 31, 2011, 03:35:45 PM

Nice gallery, i like the pictures...

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

zheobitt · 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 · February 07, 2011, 12:54:18 PM

How can i add a signature? Ich checked the profile-settings, but couldn't find anything

Illori · February 07, 2011, 01:17:57 PM

you can not add a signature until you get to a certain number of posts.

zheobitt · February 07, 2011, 04:27:15 PM

Ah, i see. And how many postings?

Arantor · February 07, 2011, 07:46:12 PM

10, I think the requirement here is.

kingkingston · February 08, 2011, 04:40:54 AM

how will it be different from the other gallery mod ?

Masterd · February 08, 2011, 07:21:51 AM

It's nice!

zheobitt · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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 · 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

.

Arantor · 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 · 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 · 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 · February 12, 2011, 07:05:30 AM

O.k., got it solved. I wrote the name of template wrong. *whops*

zheobitt · 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.

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Gallery for SMF 2.0