Typo

Cool. I'll think about adding this (or something similar) after Typo 4.0 is released.

Rather than creating a new ticket, i'll just add some comments here.

• An existing file upload and manipulation mechanism (such as ftp or DAV) should be encouraged instead of a sophisticated admin interface, similar to how WYSIWYG blog editors are currently supported through XMLRPC APIs.
• How should image data be arranged in filesystem? All in one directory, grouped by gallery or date or just arbitrary layout and location?
  • Generated or derived images such as thumbs should be stored separately from the pristine source images so that we can clean them up and not delete source content by accident.
• Image tagging could be
  • a) stored in database table using something as a key (pathname to the base/non-thumb image?)
  • b) stored along side image in a file making easier manipulation outside of admin interface, but making tag queries slow.
  • "a" seems better
• Thumbs could, maybe should be generated automatically.
• Alternatively, should we even try to "solve" the image gallery problem, or instead provide a configurable means of enumerating and laying out a group of images that may be stored somewhere else, e.g. in some other photo sharing and grouping site such as flickr, pbase, smugmug.

Looking at typo@grundprindzip.de's implementation, we assume big images and thumbs have already been uploaded somewhere and URL paths are enumerated by hand in between gallery_begin/gallery_end "tags".

#!xml
<typo:gallery  ...some attributes here such as... thumb="true" width="100">
maybe the image definitions...
</typo:gallery>

allow authors to post images much like a blog entry, complete with a 
description category and tags

a filtered view should be available to view just the photo posts, and with
category/tag posts something resembling photo albums should be achievable
without any additional effort 

Hi,

I've changed the structure of the plugin, so that is available by now as a Textfilter Macro. This allows the easy usage of the gallery like described above. As I changed the plugin I added the functionality, so that thumbnails are generated automatically.

The plugin can now be used like the following:

 #!xml
<typo:gallery  thumb="true" width="100" folder="sample" gen_thumb="true">
image.jpg:Alt Text
</typo:gallery>

These set options specify, that the gallery uses thumbnails that are automaticallly created and have a size of 100px. The images are available at: RAILS_ROOT/public/images/sample, where sample is the name of the folder specified by the attribute.

All available options are described in the help text of the text filter.

hi. i just made gallery almost working, images finally show up in article but they don't appear as thumbnailed
text that i enter inside article is:

 #this works

<typo:gallery thumb="true" width="100" folder="" gen_thumb="true">
files/bank6eh.jpg:Test
</typo:gallery> #this also works but no thumbmail is mage (RMagick works)

you can see that in action on :

http://www.freezenet.pl:3000/articles/2005/12/15/obrazek

can anyone help ?

Set the folder attribute to files then it should work. The filename in the list should be without any foldername inside.

nowa i have this:

<typo:gallery thumb="true" width="100" folder="files" gen_thumb="true">
files/bank6eh.jpg:Test
</typo:gallery>

this also displays the image but still no thumbnail, when i enter "bank6eh.jpg:Test" instead if "files/bank6eh.jpg:Test" it does not display the image. (just looks like folder attribute is not working).

when i set folder attribute to "files" and just bank6eh.jpg:Test without folder name i get in log:

Processing RedirectController#redirect (for 217.116.98.2 at 2005-12-16 12:24:05) [GET]
Parameters: {"from"=>bank6ehjpg, "action"=>"redirect", "controller"=>"redirect"}
Completed in 0.00381 (262 reqs/sec) | Rendering: 0.00006 (1%) | DB: 0.00111 (29%) | 404 [http://www.freezenet.pl/bank6eh.jpg]

this proves more with not-working folder attribute.

Maybe its a lack of documentation from my side. The folder files must be under the images folder. This is to follow the folder structure of typo. An idea is:

1) Move the images to the images folder create a subfolder "files"
so that the folder structure looks like:
RAILS_ROOT/public/images/files

2) Within the images/files folder put now your images.
3) This then should work fine.

Hope this helps.

Martin

still no difference. now i have in article:

<typo:gallery thumb="true" width="100" folder="files" gen_thumb="true">
bank6eh.jpg:Test2
komora1.jpg:Test1
</typo:gallery>

ls /usr/local/typo/public/images/files says:
bank6eh.jpg komora1.jpg

so right files exist in the right place and no effect.
even if i directly go to :
http://freezenet.pl:3000/images/files/komora1.jpg
i see an image but inside article i see nothing and no thumbnail.

Ok, I will check the soruce code. But one last question: Do you have the read and write rights correctly set?

Regards,

Martin

Shame on me... the script had some problems with the type conversion thatswy you got problems. I attach new new gallery to the ticket.

Regards

Martin

sorry but still nothing happens. in my log i still see 404 errors when accessing files

While trying to get this run has been a bit of a chore :). Being a complete N00b to Typo (only been using it for 2 days), I found that unless you have RMagick installed the gallery_controller.rb will prevent certain parts of your admin interface (the ones that grab the list of textfilters) from running.

I think you might want to add in some code similar to the "sparkline_controller.rb" file. I will try to get around to doing that after messing around with Typo and the gallery a bit :).

Thanks for the wonderful work on what's here so far :).

Thanks for the tip. I added now a

rescue LoadError 

These changes are presented as a patch against trunk r801. This incorporates gallery_controller.3.rb

Added functional tests for the gallery_controller.
Added "target" attribute to allow a new window (or frame) to be populated on click of image.