autoGallery

Hi Janice,

If I have understood correctly you want something like this:


Then a chunk called ’janicesChunk’ like this:


That will give you lots of copies of janicesChunk, each one with a linked image.


Hope this helps, if not: ask Martyn

Ramsay

Getting the placeholders right in my own snippet would be rather more impressive....



Might work better (notice its [+tnpath+] not [+tnimgpath+])

Ramsay

And closing the square brackets on things...

Sorry responded to wrong post

For anyone following AutoGallery: I am waiting for the new version to get accepted into the MODxcms.com repository. In the mean time you can downloaded it from here:

http://www.zombietuesday.com/autogallery.html

Please post any complaints or questions to this thread. If I don’t answer in a timely fashion send me an email and I’ll stop playing hardwar for a few minutes and have a look


Ramsay

Hi there,

I’m trying to set-up AutoGallery but without success till now.

This is mine itemchunk code:


It doesn’t return +filename+. Why? Anybody got any idea?

Thnx in advance

Hi!

The answer is because I’m an idiot and managed to break that bit when I updated the code.

The new version I’ve just put up at http://www.zombietuesday.com/autogallery.html should work.
I’m having a bit of trouble with the modxcms.com releaseme forms, so the version that has just been released on here is a few steps back from the good version.
Please tell me about any more problems here or by email!

For anyone interested it also now supports transparency in png files - and will retain the transparency in the thumbnails.



Ramsay

Thnx for answer. Now it’s working with +filename+, but there are static values setted for ’tnwidth’, ’tnheight’ and ’quality’ in line 33:


I think that it would be better when it’ll be naming thumbnails without duplicating extensions i.e.: not ’tn_image.jpg.jpg’ but just ’tn_image.jpg’.



works for that just fine.

And just one more question, I’m a MODx newbee, how to add ’+title+’ and ’+description+’ to the database with your snippet? Any suggestions?

Thnx for this snippet it’s just what I needed

Hi,

They aren’t static values, they’re default values. If you call generateTN($src, $dst); you will get a 100% quality image thats 190x245px. If you call generateTN($src, $dst, 200); you will get a 100% quality image thats 200px wide and it calculates a height thats in proportion to the original image.

Yes, the filenames are a bit odd but it was a deliberate choice: most (if not all) OSes will allow filename.flv and filename.jpg to exist in the same folder. In this case, which file has the thumbnail "tn_filename.jpg"? This came up when we were doing things like albums with "title tracks" - you would have "Adrenaline.jpg" as the cover art for the album "Adrenaline" that contains "Adrenaline.mp3". Since the gallery folder is supposed to be a backend thing I wasn’t too concerned about it looking a bit odd.

As for database addition: our server comes with cpanel, that comes with phpMyAdmin, which is a web tool for modifying databases. Maybe I need to release my gallery add/modify code too...


Ramsay

Quote from: ramsay at Sep 15, 2009, 05:58 AM

They aren’t static values, they’re default values. If you call generateTN($src, $dst); you will get a 100% quality image thats 190x245px. If you call generateTN($src, $dst, 200); you will get a 100% quality image thats 200px wide and it calculates a height thats in proportion to the original image.

Ok. That’s right, I’ve got some error with that thing too, so I thought they are static. Sorry.

Quote from: ramsay at Sep 15, 2009, 05:58 AM

Yes, the filenames are a bit odd but it was a deliberate choice: most (if not all) OSes will allow filename.flv and filename.jpg to exist in the same folder. In this case, which file has the thumbnail "tn_filename.jpg"? This came up when we were doing things like albums with "title tracks" - you would have "Adrenaline.jpg" as the cover art for the album "Adrenaline" that contains "Adrenaline.mp3". Since the gallery folder is supposed to be a backend thing I wasn’t too concerned about it looking a bit odd.

Right. But a little bit of additional logic would do the trick.

Quote from: ramsay at Sep 15, 2009, 05:58 AM

As for database addition: our server comes with cpanel, that comes with phpMyAdmin, which is a web tool for modifying databases. Maybe I need to release my gallery add/modify code too...

It’ll be nice.

One more thing. AutoGallery create database table not respecting MODx database prefix and default charset - that could generate problems.

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