SMF Gallery 1.0 is now out!!

[Dean Williams]

I thin kthe error is due to his choice in image softeware...it uses GD rather than imagemagick and many servers do not have GD that I have found.

You are wrong, GD is ONLY used for building the rating bar, the actual image viewer is JS. Images are shown at full size, but to be honest i didnt think of a situation where an image bigger than the resolution of the screen was uploaded, I will find some ways to fix this and offer (maybe) different options, ie resize or add scroll bars etc.

I just finished looking at the admin page for my gallery...it is a function he neglected to build into the gallery...really it should be easy to resize the image using code just like it does for the thumbnails.....so honestly there should be a function to resize the viewing of the image too....

I find this post very saddening, i neglected to add functionality  . I didnt neglect to do anything, I dont have imagemajic on my test servers so theres isnt much chance me knowing if any IM code i do will work, however now you have brought this idea to my attention I will look into image magic, install it in my server and learn how to use it. I will then (if worthy) add some functions...
However this gallery was not ever designed to do everything, and it might take some time before it becomes something that does alot. For now i really need SMF mod makers to help with the mod making of SMFG, I know theres alot of great mod makers out there so please come forward and help :p

would there be an automatic way of doing that?  can gallery do that?   or how could I use imagemagick?  I have up'ed 1 photo which is way to big for the screen and 1 of my users has up'ed one and it did the same thing.

Like i said above, it is definately possible, I will start work imediately adding some new functions and correcting some annoying things. Anyone with suggestions should please post a topic in the SMFG forums on my site as i am bound to forget them if posted here or emailed to me

Thanks

[TechnoDragon]

I thin kthe error is due to his choice in image softeware...it uses GD rather than imagemagick and many servers do not have GD that I have found.

You are wrong, GD is ONLY used for building the rating bar, the actual image viewer is JS. Images are shown at full size, but to be honest i didnt think of a situation where an image bigger than the resolution of the screen was uploaded, I will find some ways to fix this and offer (maybe) different options, ie resize or add scroll bars etc.

I just finished looking at the admin page for my gallery...it is a function he neglected to build into the gallery...really it should be easy to resize the image using code just like it does for the thumbnails.....so honestly there should be a function to resize the viewing of the image too....

I find this post very saddening, i neglected to add functionality  . I didnt neglect to do anything, I dont have imagemajic on my test servers so theres isnt much chance me knowing if any IM code i do will work, however now you have brought this idea to my attention I will look into image magic, install it in my server and learn how to use it. I will then (if worthy) add some functions...
However this gallery was not ever designed to do everything, and it might take some time before it becomes something that does alot. For now i really need SMF mod makers to help with the mod making of SMFG, I know theres alot of great mod makers out there so please come forward and help :p

Thanks

I stand corrected...I did not really understand GD as the last Gallery I had was Coppermine and it used ImageMagick, so I Assumed GD was a similar program.  I also apologize on the neglected comment as since I do a lot of image work (at home mostly) the size of the image is always a cosideration and as a lot of Digital cameras take pictures at over 2048 resolution I always think about that before I upload them anywhere.  so I figured that everyone did and when I say that there was no way to resize the images within the gallery I thought it was overlooked.

[Dean Williams]

nah it wasnt overlooked as such, we was already thinking of a way to use GD to create thumbnails for the gallery view instead of using HTML resizing (as this means the full image is loded).

But i didnt expect such a ploblem that arose, it was something we did infact overlook, the fact that in the preview view if the image is massive it loads right off the screen lol

So partly we did overlook.

Thanks, working on SMF 1.?? now :p

[comatose]

I have a couple questions please.

1. do you have a screenshot of the Admin section so i can see all the settings i may change as a Admin of my forum.

2. can each member on my forum have their own gallery section, what I'm attempting or need for my forum is that a member can upload a total of 24 pictures to his/her personal gallery and no more, if they want to add more pictures they need to delete some from their gallery.

[Dean Williams]

i can indeed get some screenshots up (better still a dummy gallery that allows access to admin panel). But i must say right away that SMFG dont support individual gallery at this time, nor does it have the ability to restrict uploads.

However the good thing is that i can concider these ideas for SMFG 1.1.0 (coming soon )

[Dean Williams]

GOOD NEWS!!

SMFG 1.1 will be released tomorrow, it will supprot many new formats so it is not just an image gallery anymore, it can support a range of video formats including AVI, MPG, WMV. It will also support sound formats and SVG.

SVG is a vector graphics format, which could be very useful to some individuals.

The gallery will also support a personal gallery for each member and the ability to set how many files each user can upload to the gallery. this means it will do what the guy who posted above requested.

There is also an option to send a file to a friend via its large preview page, there are also some bug fixes with top 10 images and top 10 posters.

[comatose]

Sounds great, i'd need to give it a try. thanks

[Dean Williams]

SMFG 1.1 has now been released

[dave]

how do i add an image in my forums point  them to the gallery?
as after install none shows up???

my gallery is located  here
http://www.handgunplace.com/forums/gallery/

thans in advance

i tried to edit the theme with an  image and link and it blew the theme apart lol so i took it out

[Dean Williams]

wow your using a very complicated custom theme :p, your link tree is using images :/

i can show you how to add a new link there but you will have to sort of the grx for the menu. ill sort out the link if your interested...

If now we can add some sort of panel saying you have a gallery and to click here etc.

[oblio]

I'm not sure if I see corectly, but the gallery seems to be missing comments.
Comments are very important, because members always want to comment on photos.
They should be very much like posts: editable, removable, maybe even use smileys.
I'm not sure how easy it is to implement such a thing.

[Dean Williams]

well not too difficult, the emoticons bit might present problems but overall not hard...

This is something were looking forward to work on soon

[ArkServer]

I get this: Hacking attempt...

after i continue after "It seems we have found SSI.php, so now we can continue."

//
its fixed but now another problem..
how do i add a link in the menu on 1.1 rc2?

[Dean Williams]

http://tpvgames.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=174.new#new

1.1 RC2 instructions added

[Kettu]

Hi,
nice gallery. But some things I miss and currently 1 thing is not nice.

I miss the option to disable guests or other user groups (showing the gallery) and give different rights to different user groups (how many pics can be uploaded etc., where can be uploaded [catergories]).

I don't like that the admin is also restricted by the upload limit. That shouldn't be.

And who's idea was that pink for admins?

Edit:
I think I'll delete the gallery now, because it is too buggy. There are so many bugs in i.e. If you try to upload and you are not registered, then you can click inside the Javascript popup to register. But then all opens in that window.

[Sheepdog360]

is there any possibilty of getting the changfes implemented that Kettu stated?

[sundog]

Hi there

First of all, your SMF Gallery is really nice and I'm glad to see that someone finally made one!. I do have a few questions though...

(1) How exactly do you completely uninstall the SMF Gallery (in case I ever needed to)?.

(2) Once installed as directed, does your SMF Gallery modify any of the original SMF forum files and if so, which ones and how?.

(3) Is it safe to do a MYSQL database backup (via PHPMyAdmin) while having the SMF Gallery installed?. Any database problems there?.

Thanks again for your help and thanks for a really decent gallery MOD!

- Regards, SD

[beebs]

I'd love it if it would add a link to the menu bar.

[baladeva]

what about - working together with the joomla_bridge_?
means running smf with joomla - is it still working then_?  - and also the others (joomla and smf) are still working then_?

has anyone already tries  _?

[Dean Williams]

this is the wrong topic to be talking aobut such things, the whole point of SMFG is to create a system for SMF not convert another system into SMF.