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[Franky]

Hi,

I've just got a reply from the etogal author that it's not possible to bulk upload picture's to an etogal gallery. Since I really need this I'm looking for an alternative.

Anyone know one ?

Important is:

Easy to install and use
Bulk upload (pref via FTP)
Easy to deploy in a webpage

Less important but nice:

Lightbox or thikbox
Speed


thnx alot !

Franky

[Franky]

ow and tumbnails to if possible

Edited by Franky, 13 May 2008 - 11:26 AM.

[Ralph]

Well, Franky, you just might be in luck... I am actually in the process of writing a snippet which uses the Highslide javascript image gallery... At present it workas as follows...

Using the Xinha WYSIWYG editor you create a document and use Xinha's Image Manager to upload images and place them in your document, complete with an image description in the image properties... Then you create another Gallery page that holds the snippet call... The snippet then reads in the gallery storage document that holds the images, uses regexp to extract only the images, creates modified markup that Highslide requires, complete with caption, and renderes the page of thumbnails that Xinha created, and each thumbnail is linked to the fullsize image... I just started the snippet yesterday but have a working model... It's not quite ready for public viewing just yet, however...

What are some of the benefits...??? From an end users standpoint it runs with software they may already be familiar with, the Xinha editor... No database is required... Managing images is as easy as adding and deleting from an Etomite document... No need to physically remove the image from the gallery directory...

I have not attempted to make this snippet work with mass uploads of images, however, but it should be possible to add in thumbnail generation for pre-existing images via PHP script... I may attempt to account for other image handling methods in the future, or someone else may be able to add those capabilities in...

[Franky]

Hi,

That sounds great. My biggest concern is uploading the images. I often will have to upload more then 200 images.

Let me know when your ready for the public or if you want someone to test it out.

Thnx !
Franky

[winiw]

Etomite is a simple and very powerfull cms but the gallery snippet is messing everything up.
Everything related to this snipped is unstructured and messy. I have been reading about it in a few days withouth any result.

I have an intermediate knowledge of php but I understand nothing of this.
There are hundreds of download links flying around here....God

[PaulD]

Etomite is a simple and very powerfull cms but the gallery snippet is messing everything up.
Everything related to this snipped is unstructured and messy. I have been reading about it in a few days withouth any result.

I have an intermediate knowledge of php but I understand nothing of this.
There are hundreds of download links flying around here....God

I have found that it is easiest to download one of the many wonderful javascript galleries around and writing my own snippet to use on pages, uploading the files myself via ftp.

Hope that helps,

Paul.

PS As you say, Etomite lets you do pretty much anything.

[Cris D.]

I think that much of the confusion about etogal and the many snippets may be partially my fault. I wrote a lot of add-ons whe I first started with etogal and etomite - all are optional depending on what you want the snippet to achieve. Etogal really needs a controller to manage all the add-ons. But there you have it. I'd start with the basic etogal snippet and take it from there.

Also, there's other options for galleries that are easier to configure than etogal such as: http://www.etomite.c...-vision-viewer/ and Trip Tracker: http://www.etomite.c...er-gallery-v20/ not to mention other ways to integration other gallery sites such as cooliris http://www.cooliris.com/developer/