integrated gallery

yesahasureok

is anyone able to tell me an (easy) way how to build a gallery extension with the page manager extension and the filebrowser?

just a simple upload & display - plug and play solution.


thanks vanillians.

jimw

Did you see this extension http://lussumo.com/addons/?PostBackAction=AddOn&AddOnID=42?

yesahasureok

yes i saw that , but i thought more of a fullscreen popup out of vanilla , and not really a rederection to the filebrowser .

so far as i understand the filebrowser extension... it just redirects you to the filebrowser after you click a thumb.

correct me if im wrong.

i was just looking for a way to have a _real_ integration.

seems like i have to solve this with an iframe solution or such to embed filebrowser directly

Vincent

i have a half completed extension but i dont know when i'll have the time to complete it

yesahasureok

is your extension based on the fileupload extension?

Vincent

no, my extension is basically getting the whole filebrowser program an throwing it into vanilla.

yesahasureok

really nice ... good luck i hope youre getting it, would be def. cool.

Stash

Fery, you can get a reasonable (but basic) gallery by using the attachment extensions and the JQThickBox extension. With those you can achieve inline thumbnails which popup in a pretty way, that have captions, you can click "next" to get to the next picture... I know it's not exactly ideal, but perhaps it will work until there is something more robust in place?

yesahasureok

i need only an easy way to display and to upload images on the fly, very simple. just uploading tadaaa ... displayed,
no html editing... nothing.


can i do something like that with your solution?

would be also great

Stash

Yes, although you will want to ensure you have all of these extensions:
JQuery
JQThickBox
Attachments 2
Inline Images
Multi File Upload

You must ensure that you enable JQuery before JQThickBox, or you may have issues.

Also, you will probably want to do a one time edit on the Multi File Upload extension to change the max allowed simultaneous uploads

For the InlineImages extension, you can change the settings in Vanilla > Settings (look on the side panel once it's enabled). I've found that a setting of 125px is a nice size for thumbnails.

yesahasureok

ah okay thanks mang, i try to figure it out.

is it in usage on your website(s)?

Stash

http://exhibitq.com/talk/discussion/3/

Just please bear in mind it's a test forum and I test stuff, so things can and do break every now and then. Nothing strange going on at the moment though, so it should all be working fine

jimw

Let's say that I wanted to put image references into a discussion or comment manually, what would be the syntax to reference thickbox? Is it rel="thickbox"?

Stash

class="thickbox"

yesahasureok

looks promising stash, thanks for the link mang.

ok.. so i only hafta enable all those extensions (mentioned above) and then only a style rel. to the header right?

Stash

You don't have to do anything other than enable those extensions and configure InlineImages to use thickbox. No other editing required.

yesahasureok

ah ok , ill try

thanks so far

Stash

If it does what you want, be sure to post us a URL so we can go and look

u2wedge

just a quick comment.... can you open up filebrowser for designated roles in vanilla? I'm interested in starting a photography forum and am looking for a way to efficiently handle images to allow for voting, criticism, etc.

Vincent

well, i'm three quarters at completing the back end for the filebrowser integration

i haven't spent much time on doing the design as you can see, but the whole program will be put into Vanilla once it's done

mis-one

Vincent, looks very interesting! Can you speak more on the integration? Will users be able to upload images or just view them?