dfGallery addon released

[TheMarco]

As promised I've prepared a dfGallery addon.

Download:

http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/dfgallery/

dfGallery is a kick ass Flash slideshow viewer by DezinerFolio. I modified the backend to work with the MediaRSS addon for Pixelpost and made a wrapper to make it work as an addon. Hope you like it.

Demo:

http://www.i-marco.nl/photoblog/?x=slideshow

If you have any problems, post them here.

Enjoy!

[pinkasimov]

Well well, Thanks to you to brought us this addon, but…

In fact, it doesn't work, the page's load, but after that, it's stuck with the "loading…"
Do you have an explanation for me ?
here is the link ;
http://maphoto.lautre.net/pixelpost/index.php?x=slideshow

[TheMarco]

Yes I see the problem. Look here:

http://maphoto.lautre.net/pixelpost/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php?type=mediarss&url=http://maphoto.lautre.net/pixelpost/addons/mediarss.php&max=9999

You're running PHP in safe mode which is why you can't set your own time limit.

Try removing line 16 from gallery.php which you'll find in the folder df/ in your _dfgallery addon directory.

It should run fine without this line anyway.

[pinkasimov]

Yes ! All work fine, but I need to put a "True" value too on the <pause_slideshow> on gallery.xml.
And now a big thank you !
For the addon and for the reactivity !

[TheMarco]

Looking good! Enjoy :)

[tarlak]

Hello,

Like pinkasimov, there's problem for me too

here's the link : http://photos.tarlak.net/index.php?x=slideshow

I try the tips you give to pinkasimov but no way.

And when i try this : http://photos.tarlak.net/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php?type=mediarss&url=http://photos.tarlak.net/addons/mediarss.php&max=100

I've some php error.

Can you help me please ?

[TheMarco]

Tarlak, your MediaRSS feed isn't working.

http://photos.tarlak.net/addons/mediarss.php&max=100

Is the plugin enabled?

Also, increase the max=100 if you want all your pics to show up.

[tarlak]

Tarlak, your MediaRSS feed isn't working.

http://photos.tarlak.net/addons/mediarss.php&max=100

Is the plugin enabled?

Also, increase the max=100 if you want all your pics to show up.


Ho sorry, i made it on the addon directory but i think a 'rm' command line made me delete it sorry.

I have to think before i speak the next time. sorry.

Juste one think it may be a good idea to preconise the php5_curl library to be enable, because for my configuration by default it wasn't enable.

Thanks for this addon :)

[Clickpix]

hello!

the plugin doesnt run at my homepage...
i made the changes that you wrote in this post..but i get an loading page and thats it...
you now that problem???

http://test.clickpix.eu

Torsten

[TheMarco]

For some reason your php code is mangled and throws an error:

http://test.clickpix.eu/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php

Mine doesn't:

http://www.i-marco.nl/photoblog/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php

[Smartphoner]

I am sorry does not run always loading....

http://www.romankeller.ch/index.php?x=show

[Smartphoner]

Ok now great !

[Clickpix]

hmm..i´ve downloaded dfgallery again...but, i get the same error :(

[Smartphoner]

Would love to see the possibility to view only some categories and not all photos. Something like galleries, on one page I can choose galleries.

[TheMarco]

For that to work you'd need multiple MediaRSS feeds each serving a certain subset of your images. The 'albums' you can browse within the Flash viewers are different RSS feeds.

[Smartphoner]

How must I do that to have more RSS Feeds ?

[electro76]

It seem not working on my site too :

http://blog.gino-caron.com/index.php?x=imagetest

Could you please help me?

[TheMarco]

Which version of PHP are you running?

[electro76]

Version 1.7.0

[TheMarco]

Which version of PHP are you running?

[electro76]

Sorry, i didn't read entirely your question. My site is on godaddy and it's written that the version of PHP is : PHP 4.x

[TheMarco]

Ok that would be the problem then. The dfGallery backend code only runs on PHP5. Sorry :(

[jaywilliams]

To tell you the truth, GoDaddy really should upgrade to PHP 5, as a lot of new scripts only run on that version. Especially since the first version of PHP 5 came out way back in 2004.

Perhaps you can send them a request... and if enough GoDaddy customers request it, they'll have to upgrade. :D

[TheMarco]

Exactly. Here's another reason why, from the PHP.net site:

The PHP development team hereby announces that support for PHP 4 will continue until the end of this year only. After 2007-12-31 there will be no more releases of PHP 4.4. We will continue to make critical security fixes available on a case-by-case basis until 2008-08-08. Please use the rest of this year to make your application suitable to run on PHP 5.

PHP4 is completely DEAD after 2008-08-08. It's pretty shocking that providers are still running this.

[Dkozikowski]

Sorry, i didn't read entirely your question. My site is on godaddy and it's written that the version of PHP is : PHP 4.x

GoDaddy offers php5. You need to make the switch.

[electro76]

Thank you all. I just did the switch to PHP5. They will do it in the next 24 hours.

[evanvooren]

Having troubles as well on http://www.ilger.nl/photo/index.php?x=slides. It does not show any pictures :)

I'm found an error on http://www.ilger.nl/photo/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php?type=mediarss&url=http://www.ilger.nl/photo/addons/mediarss.php&max=100

it seems that the mediarss is not creating an xml rss file?

Anyone a suggestion on what might be the problem?

I'v managed to solve some previous problems following the tips in this thread but now i'm pretty stuck :)

[TheMarco]

You don't have CURL support in your PHP.

Mental note: I really need to write more detailed instructions / requirements.

[evanvooren]

Darn...suppose there is no other way to change this other than having curl support on the server.

[TheMarco]

There is. Uploaded a new version that works with both curl and DOMDocument->load() (which doesn't run on my host).

http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/dfgallery/

Let me know if this helps.

[evanvooren]

Seems to have the right effect on the error which is now gone and it is producing it's XML now...

So that is good news! Thanks for the quick update on the curl vs. DOMDocument->load()

[pedroserano]

I've carefully read through the above problems and solutions, trying each one separately and together. Unfortunately, none seem to resolve this issue:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/content/p/e/d/pedroserano/html/portfolio/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php on line 40

Any idea what this means?

Thank you :)

[evanvooren]

Hi Marco,

Have you tried to load flickr as an album (dfgallery functionality) in your version as well already?

[TheMarco]

@pedroserano I have absolutely no clue. All I can think of is that you may be running some really old PHP version. (below PHP5)

@evanvooren No I haven't. Why?

[evanvooren]

I was testing how easy it was to use other album types supported by dfgallery like flickr and it didn't. So before I start investigating how to I was wondering whether you've tried this already and maybe had it working as well.

[pedroserano]

Marco,

you were absolutely right, the server is running both php4 and php5 perhaps for backwards compatibility, but not my choice.

The host says all scripts that you want parsed as php5 need .php5 on the end.

All the scripts run flawlessly by themselves as I've tested, but it seems have lost their links to each other.

Are there references to php files in gallery.swf (I believe I've covered all references in _dfgallery/df/gallery.php and the other editable files.

Thanks!!!

[TheMarco]

Wow that's an utter ridiculous way of doing things. This pretty much prevents any software to run as PHP5. I'd strongly urge your host to REVERSE this, making .php run php5 and .php4 run php4 for those who still haven't been able to upgrade their software after over 3 years.

You may still be able to change this for your home directory only with a .htaccess file pointing .php files to the right destination. You could try to ask them for that!

[wengeol2]

Marco,

I really like your theme and the dfGallery slideshow is a very nice add-on. Unfortunately my the hosting company is setup with an old Linux distribution (SuSE 10.0!) and there is currently no option to upgrade to PHP5.

So I've written a new PHP4 compliant version of the media-stripper, which is required to transform the MediaRSS XML File to a new XML file for dfGallery. I am still running the last couple of tests and tidying up the code..

There is a limitation however: it will only work with MediaRSS feeds. So no Flickr, Picasa Fotki or Photobucket.

I will post the PHP4 files, if someone is interested in them.

// Olivier

[pinkasimov]

The Marco, the addon "dfgallery.php" is still in version 1 :
$addon_version = "1.0";
even if I after thedownload of "dfgallery-addon-11" ?

[TheMarco]

That just means I forgot to change that :)

[lfp]

I have some question to put about dfgallery:

- is it possible to change the data format, that shows on the top left ?
- when we click in the bottom left button (gallery) it normal to show only one image inside the box ?
- inside gallery can I use accents for example, instead of "previous photo" use "próxima" ?

thanks
lfp

[evanvooren]

Marco,

There is a limitation however: it will only work with MediaRSS feeds. So no Flickr, Picasa Fotki or Photobucket.




I believe the PHP5 version from Marco is also not available with the flickr, picasa or photobucket theme features from dfgallery. Or am I missing something?

[wengeol2]

evanvooren,

MediaRSS is not available in standard dfGallery. TheMarco has added this functionality.

You can add additional albums (Flickr, Picasa, Forki and Photobucket) by adding them into the gallery.xml file. Instructions can be found here: http://www.dezinerfolio.com/dfgallery/manual/

I believe the PHP5 version from Marco is also not available with the flickr, picasa or photobucket theme features from dfgallery. Or am I missing something?

[evanvooren]

That's the point....if you add albums with type='flickr' or any other, it does not show....at least not in my gallery :)

Olivier, Have you tried this in yours?

[FBR-76]

Hi. If I have some categories, I must to add all categories in gallery.xml manual? If yes, how I can?

[lfp]

In my case I put them manually, Just like this:
<albums>
<album title="All Photos" description="Pixelpost Album" type="mediarss" url="http://www.i-marco.nl/photoblog/addons/mediarss.php"/>
<album title="Abstract" description="Pixelpost Album" type="mediarss" url="http://www.i-marco.nl/photoblog/addons/mediarss.php?category=9"/>
.
repeat the upper line for each category
.
</albums>

You can find out the number for each category in your browse page.
Jut put the mouse over the category and see the number on the foot of your browser.

lfp

[Smartphoner]

<albums>
<album title="All Photos" description="Pixelpost Album" type="mediarss" url="http://www.i-marco.nl/photoblog/addons/mediarss.php"/>
<album title="Abstract" description="Pixelpost Album" type="mediarss" url="http://www.i-marco.nl/photoblog/addons/mediarss.php?category=9"/>
.
repeat the upper line for each category
.
</albums>

It works ! But I want my portfolio on first position, its allways at last position. Any idea ?

[FBR-76]

Hi. I have one question?
How I can remove desinerfolio.org links and text. What I must to do for?

[Marco]

Hi,

I've tryed all the propositions above, but i still have the loading bar stuck at the beginning...
Running :
- pp1.7.1
- php5

and the mediarss works, as i get the piclens option.

Any ideas please ?

[Marco]

I've just uploaded a new picture, and this one is fine in the slideshow, but it's the only thumbnail I get down in the navigation bar, and when jumping to the next image, the loading bar gets stuck again... :(

[falcon1]

My loading bar is also stuck... what am I doing wrong? The url is http://www.icelandphotoblog.com/index.php?x=slideshow

[Crossie]

Thanks Marco for this nice addon. Works flawless out of the box on my system (http://www.accessible.de/pixelpost/index.php?x=slideshow).

Regards
Uwe

[falcon1]

Could this be server related problem or what? I have tried all I can think of to make this work but without success, so strange!

[falcon1]

update: my slideshow seems to work on IE, so this seems to be some firefox problem - maybe some coding which firefox doesn't understand but IE does?

[falcon1]

another update: only past 10 image entries works. :S This is getting weird!

[davewjr]

While trying to link to the slideshow this is the message i get...

Not Found
The requested URL /index.php was not found on this server.

The path shows up correctly in the address bar but i get the error page. I had also set the slideshow page as my entry page with the entry page addon and it worked fine .

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[davewjr]

My screwup...

[mikeylikesit]

I also can't get dfGallery to work in Firefox 3.0. It works just fine in IE 7. Can anyone shed any light on why this might be the case?

Thanks

[André Bouwhuis]

Hello,
Can someone give me an example of a new page to show the dfGallery. The gallery is working but only "within" an excisting page. I need it to run in a new page but i don't know how to. Secondly i need to know how to link to the slideshowpage from my other pages. Can someone help please.

Greetz,
André

[photography]

Can someone give me an example of a new page to show the dfGallery. The gallery is working but only "within" an excisting page. I need it to run in a new page but i don't know how to. Secondly i need to know how to link to the slideshowpage from my other pages. Can someone help please.

In order to use dfGallery on a new page you must create another html file inside your template directory (where image_template.html, browse_template.html, about_template.html are placed) and put the code for dfGallery inside. The best way to do this is to create a copy of image_template.html, rename it for example to slideshow_template.html, delete the html code for showing images and thumbnails from the new html file and put the <DFGALLERY...> instead. After, you'll have yourblog.com/index.php?x=slideshow as the slideshow for your page.


dfGallery possible fix:

I've replied to this thread because I've seen some people complaining about dfgallery not working on their websites and since I've had the same problem, I thought posting a possible solution might help.

This is what I've done in order to make the slideshow work:

- installed dfgallery following the steps mentioned in the documentation;
- installed this addon (http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/modifications/media-rss-for-piclens-and-others/) (Media RSS for PicLens with all blogged photos);
- opened dfgallery's gallery.xml and in the <albums> section I've added this:
<album title="Pixelpost" description="Pixelpost Album" type="mediarss" url="http://www.website.com/index.php?x=rss"></album>
- entered pixelpost admin and under options-rss/atom feed settings I've selected "Show full size pictures";

That's it! I hope it'll work for you as well.

All the best! :)

PS. Make sure you replace website.com/index.php?x=rss with the url of your website.

[Bazoo]

Hi everyone!

I've been sweating a few hours already trying to nstall the dfGallery, read all the messages here, but still can't find where I'm wrong.

I have the loading stuck...

I'm new to PixelPost, so it's very possible I made a very obvious mistake!

Here is my slideshow: http://lepetitchinois.net/portfolio/index.php?x=slideshow

I have php5, curl should be enabled.
The addons are enabled also.

My mediarss page doesn't show, even though it's there:

http://lepetitchinois.net/portfolio/addons/addons/mediarss.php

I get my custom 404 page come up... I don't know why!

If you have some skills and a little time, thanks to give me a hand :-)

Cheers,

Bazoo

[Bazoo]

Really would appreciate a hand, I have been stuck for a week...

[ranmajen]

I haven't tried or studied this slideshow addon.

The link you given of mediarss is wrong, should be one "addons":

http://lepetitchinois.net/portfolio/addons/mediarss.php

Any wrong setting of this addon?

[Bazoo]

Hi all!

My mediarss page works finally. But the page still blocks on loading:

http://lepetitchinois.net/portfolio/index.php?x=slideshow

ranmajen: hello :-) Sorry, the links are "cut" down when I past them on the board, but they are still ok!


EDIT : I uninstalled it, as I couldn't get it to work properly. Seems hard for many people to install it...

[jerome28]

http://www.mesphotosdevoyages.fr/index.php
slideshow doesn't work, the page's load, but after that, it's stuck with the "loading…"
how i can make?
thanks

[Robbo]

http://www.mesphotosdevoyages.fr/index.php
slideshow doesn't work, the page's load, but after that, it's stuck with the "loading…"
how i can make?
thanks


Does your php support CURL.

[schlapparazzi]

Hi there!

I have exactly the same problem with the loading bar stuck....
http://schlapparazzi.de/?x=slideshow

mediarss is working, php5 installed, Curl enabled, line 16 in gallery.php(time out) disabled.

any ideas?
Marco?

best reguards

[abhi14saxena]

Hi Guys,

I cant seem to get the dfGallery to work...its stuck at the loading page....
photblog link http://www.subtleimprints.com/PhotoBlog/

I am running Php 5

when i check gallery.php at http://www.subtleimprints.com/PhotoBlog/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php?type=mediarss&url=http://www.subtleimprints.com/PhotoBlog/addons/mediarss.php

I get the error Fatal error: Class 'DOMDocument' not found in /usr/local/psa/home/vhosts/subtleimprints.com/httpdocs/PhotoBlog/addons/_dfgallery/df/Strippers/MediaRSS.php on line 26

[jacku]

It's a bummer that the maker of dfGallery doesn’t come with a solution to this problem.
The dfGallery possible fix earlier placed in this post does not work for me.

I emailed This Mister Marco a couple of weeks ago, but until now, no reaction at all. I bought a licence for dark matter pro, so I think a little support is in his place I think. But clearly he has a different idea on support for his sold products.

Jack,

http://www.jackuges.com/index.php?x=slideshow

ps. His support text on his site:

If you need help with Dark Matter you can email me. However you're probably going to get help faster if you try the Pixelpost forum. I read this forum daily. If you ask your question there you may get an answer from a fellow user before I even see it and other users may benefit from your question and the answer.
If you think you've found a bug in Dark Matter Pro, please make sure you:

 Can properly reproduce the bug
 Provide a detailed description of the problem
 Provide information about the browser and operating system you are using

I cannot respond with proper action to incomplete or vague bug reports.

http://darkmatter-template.com/docs/index.html#extra

[Bazoo]

I agree, this thread seems dead, it's a pity, after all the efforts each one has spent to find out where his mistake was, when probably many did things the right way...

[atomicmak]

here is my problem....

http://kevincreation.com/index.php?x=slideshow

stucks at 50%

[atomicmak]

after enabling curl i get this when i try to open url :

http://localhost/pixelpost/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php?type=mediarss&url=http://localhost/pixelpost/addons/mediarss.php

GETTING THIS RESULT

Warning: domdocument::domdocument() expects at least 1 parameter, 0 given in C:\xampp\htdocs\pixelpost\addons\_dfgallery\df\Str ippers\MediaRSS.php on line 26

Fatal error: Call to undefined method domdocument::loadXML() in C:\xampp\htdocs\pixelpost\addons\_dfgallery\df\Str ippers\MediaRSS.php on line 40

[atomicmak]

resolved..

just for info changing the image and thumbnail path resolved the issue.

[jacku]

atomicmak,

Do you mean with "changing the image and thumbnail path resolved the issue", the issue that whe have with the slideshow stuck on loading? If yes, in wich file do whe change the path of the the image and thumbnail?

Regrads,

Jack

[atomicmak]

dear jacku

yes i have changed images and thumbnail path in gallery.xml which should be in root of your pixelpost and it had resolved the issue.

just change that value to your root relative path and it will resolve the problem..

e.g.

if your pixelpost is
www.yourdomain.tld/pixelpost/gallery.xml

then your path should be

<thumbnail_dir>./thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>./images/</image_dir>

[jacku]

Hi atomicmak,

Thanks for the feedback. I tried to chance

<thumbnail_dir>../../thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>../../images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>././thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>././images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>./thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>./images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>/thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>/images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>images/</image_dir>

And even to this

<thumbnail_dir>http://www.mysite.com/thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir> http://www.mysite.com /images/</image_dir>

But none of these solved the problem
Any other suggestions? :)

Regrda

[jacku]

Hi atomicmak,

Thanks for the feedback. I tried to chance

<thumbnail_dir>../../thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>../../images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>././thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>././images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>./thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>./images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>/thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>/images/</image_dir>

To this

<thumbnail_dir>thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir>images/</image_dir>

And even to this

<thumbnail_dir>http://www.mysite.com/thumbnails/</thumbnail_dir>
<image_dir> http://www.mysite.com /images/</image_dir>

But none of these solved the problem

Any other suggestions?

regards, jack

[blacksheepfoto]

Having what I consider a significant issue with this addon...

Basically, I have added multiple albums to the gallery.xml file as I've read elsewhere on the forum to do..

The problems which all happen with NO CHANGES what so ever to the site, ie..no new image uploading, categories, admin changes...this just happens randomly with nothing having been changed....

1: When switching to grid view to select a different album, it sometimes only shows 8 of the 9 total albums listed in gallery.xml.

This is completely random. Reloading the page sometimes works, sometimes not to get all to show.

2: My gallery.xml contains the albums in the order in which I want them displayed. It would seem obvious that this is the way it should work but it does not. It random decides which galleries show. For example, with problem 1, sometimes it decides to leave off Product Shots and others it decides to leave off Artistic...etc. This is during refreshes with no other changes being made to pixelpost, or new images uploaded, or anything changing whatsoever.

In other words, it does not display them as listed in the gallery.xml, ever. And it never seems to display in the same order, it always changes with a cache clearing and refresh of the page.

3: As related to number 1 and 2, I want to display A SPECIFIC album first, not randomly, but it ignores the order of the gallery.xml so it never starts on the same gallery.

I am using this addon more or less as a portfolio slideshow. Or at least I would like to. The only solution I see at the moment is to delete all but one album and add only X number of photos from each category that album category. I would much rather be able to have only one area for a category/collection view on my site, and they display as a slideshow instead of thumbnails as in the Collections/browse archives viewing style.

Any ideas why this is happening?

Here is the code snippet from my gallery.xml...

<!-- this node contains the pixelpost MediaRSS based album Change the URL into the URL to your feed! -->

<albums>
<album title="Portfolio" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=15"></album>
<album title="Architecture" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=14"></album>
<album title="Artistic and Still Life" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=9"></album>
<album title="Copywork and Digitization" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=18"></album>
<album title="Events" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=7"></album>
<album title="Nature and Animals" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=8"></album>
<album title="Portraits and People" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=16"></album>
<album title="Product Shots and Commercial" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=10"></album>
<album title="Street" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=17"></album>
<album title="Vehicles and Vessels" description="Blacksheep Foto" type="mediarss" url="http://www.blacksheepfoto.com/addons/mediarss.php?category=11"></album>
</albums>

[impete82]

ok scrap my last post, i have a new concern

when i click the bottom left icon to bring up different sections, i only have the one with all my images. i have categories and tags and nothing seems to separate my images on that page.

[impete82]

no one knows? :(

[Flavio]

Hi, I've tried to install the addon but I've encountered this problem

http://www.darkeyedistrict.com/Pixelpost/addons/_dfgallery/df/gallery.php?type=mediarss&url=http://www.darkeyedistrict.com/Pixelpost/addons/mediarss.php&max=100

how can i fix?

[quilmore]

great work
thanks for all your effort

if a new version comes, is adding categories going to be a manual edit too?
also, version 2.004 is out now, any chance of getting it implemented?

thanks again

[quilmore]

another one, any chance of choosing to start with the categories menue instead of the pictures?

[ian]

I had try for weeks to make df Gallery work, I read every single note about it and tried every suggestion. Im about to give up. Im using godaddy to host my site, could that be it?

I also tried the flash slideshow but just realized that its for pixelpost 1.6, can and should I install the older version of pixelpost?

Im not an expert on this, just a photographer trying to do a slide show. Any comments or suggestions are very well appreciated.

Thank you!

[ian]

So here I am almost 2 months after my last post. Still can't figure it out. Im following instructions which are half way explained and that contradict themself.

On the DF gallery read me document it says "The height attribute is required, the width value is optional"
once you installed the plugin, on the admin it says "Use <DFGALLERY width="xxx" height="xxx"> (height is optional) anywhere on a new Pixelpost page to display the slideshow viewer."

So is it optional or not.
Im not very familiar with anything else but very basic HTML. It does not specify where exactly to ad the with and height command, just says anywhere on a NEW pixelpost page.
What does that mean? do i have to create a new document?
Pleaseee help, this has been a very frustrating experience for me.
Im also using the Delicious template which seems very unstable as sometimes I see my thumbnails, sometimes not, etc. Anybody that has experience with the mix of DF and Delicious would be very appreciated if you can comment. Thank you.

[ampix]

HI!

This addon is working great for me. I even achive to incorporate it in my pixelpost template colors! There is 3 modifications i would like to do to it but i have no idea how to modify the files.

1. I would like the mp3 file to loop continuously (non stop music)
2. I would lik the speaker to be ON by default (and turned off by the visitor if he wished so)
3. I would like to see 3 rows instead of 2 so the visitors don't have to switch page every 6 categories.

Any help would be appreciated.

You can take a look at this adress:
http://www.ampix-photo.net/pod/home.php

Thanks for your help!

[kroplaswiatla]

Ok, i've done everything what's in instructions:

1. install addon Media Rss and activate it
2. install addon dfGallery (_dfgallery/dfgallery - version 1.0) Status ON on administration panel
3. put: <li><a href="index.php?x=slideshow">Slideshow</a></li> in image_template in <ul id="menu">
4. put: <album title="Pixelpost" description="Pixelpost Album" type="mediarss" url="http://www.kroplaswiatla.com/addons/mediarss.php"> in gallery.xml

RESULT:

My start page with SLIDESHOW which is lin to sliedshow gallery
http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/7917/92993503.jpg

When i click it i see page with LOADING and nothing more. No pictures or miniatures.
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/3563/22603753.jpg

Marco, Can you help me ??

[kroplaswiatla]

Hello

I've still problem with dfgallery addon. I need help, couse i've no idea what's wrong.

1. I downloaded two addons: MEDIA RSS and DFgallery (whole directory) and put them in Addon directory. Then actived them.

2. I placed the file gallery.xml in the ROOT of my pixelpost installation. (earlier change line to: <album title="Pixelpost" description="Pixelpost Album" type="mediarss"
url="http://www.kroplaswiatla.com/addons/mediarss.php"></album>

3. I place this line: <li><a href="index.php?x=slideshow">Slideshow</a></li> in <ul id="menu"> section (in about_template page)

Effect is:

First screen shot.
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/4078/29885771.jpg


I see the page with SLIDESHOW link. When i clik it i see new screen with LOADING text

(screenshot 2).
http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/6744/47888895.jpg


And after two, maybe free second everything frees. No photos, no miniatures. Just black

screen.

I didn't place <DFGALLERY width="xxx" height="yyy"> line in any template becouse i don't want to another small window when i see miniature (heh, when i put this line is the same effect like above).

Please help ! I don't know where is error.