Hello! First off, thanks for a modern photo gallery module for MODx. I think EvoGallery will work great for our needs, but we do have some issues getting it working. First, in the manager module, after we upload an image, we see the thumbnail but it’s black. This happens for all images, which makes it difficult to use the ordering (a great feature I know some of my clients will appreciate). I loaded the thumb_handler.php page manually, and it’s always a blank page (no image info or any info at all). The images do show up through the snippet and I checked that both the thumbnail and the regular sized image exist on the server.
We haven’t tried everything yet but I believe the other manager functions work fine. On the implementation side, we are struggling to get the snippets working. I have been reading the documentation and do understand the available templates (but we are not chunk template experts, so the answers may be obvious). Just a short description of what we want is for pages to be galleries of thumbnails that can be clicked to open the larger image (in a lightbox environment or new page, something). Considering the flexibility of EvoGallery, I know it can do this with little effort, we just need to get the snippet correct. All we can do so far is make all images show on the page (they were too large for our template, but I found the configuration option to make the images smaller by default), or a set of thumbnails that are clickable but not well formatted. To try and control the format through the item template, we copied the default item template and created a new chunk for the item template variable. However, we were able to get just one image or thumbnail to show up. I played with the galleries setting for the display parameter, but was never able to get anything to show (return from the snippet always visibly blank). The main gallery page does have child pages where we have also uploaded images for testing, but the way the galleries behaves may not be understood by us.
I was hoping that we would just need to change the item template to show the thumbnail, then we could make a link after setting up a lightbox environment or something else. We tried the jquery-cycle, just to see how it worked, but this only caused all the large images to show, overlapping one another.
One of our snippet calls is the following. This returns a very broken list of thumbnails for some of the images. Some of the thumbnails do not show but the link is there and can be clicked to open the image in a new window. Specifically, the thumbnails that do not show correspond to the current document (so if &
docId=`56` is added, only the links show with no thumbnails as the images in other pages are not brought in).
[[EvoGallery? &display=`images` &sortBy=`sortorder`]]
We have tried the following to take care of the formatting of individual items and not opening a new window (or controlling the link that opens a new window). We were hoping whatever default templates were in place would work with minor changes in the default item template.
[[EvoGallery? &display=`images` &type=`jquery-cycle` &itemTpl=`gallery_item`]]
We copied the item template and changed the image dir to the thumb dir. I had hoped we could turn the image into a link easily to work with lightbox if the jquery-cycle would not work.
<div class="pic"><img src="[+thumbs_dir+][+filename+]" alt="[+title+]" /><p>[+description+]</p></div>
When we tried the galleries, it was (have also removed docId to use current page and the itemTpl) the following. This is always blank.
[[EvoGallery? &display=`galleries` &docId=`56` &itemTpl=`gallery_item`]]
Any suggestions on what we might be forgetting to consider in the way we are implementing the snippet for a decent looking gallery (including what needs to happen to see the jquery-cycle effect), and anything regarding the thumbnail view in the manager module interface? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
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