Fancy Image Gallery
What is Fancy Image Gallery?
It’s easy to use gallery plugin for Wolf CMS with jquery fancybox effect. The plugin purpose is to make and maintain a lot of galleries in less time as possible. Approx. time to set up one gallery with 20 images is 5 minutes.
NOTICE The gallery only works with MOD_REWRITE on! Since version 0.8.1, it works with or without MOD_REWRITE!!!
Features
- create thumbnails with custom size
- all images per gallery are in one folder (1 folder = 1 gallery)
- easy displaying of gallery
- display gallery where ever you want
- group all galleries on one page with links
- automatic display of titles under every image
- more effects for slideshows (v.0.8.0)
- improved and cleaner css (v.0.8.0)
- fancier “fancy_parent” image display (v.0.8.0)
- works with or without mod_rewrite (v.0.8.1)
- auto sorting (v.0.8.1 – thanks mvdkleijn)
Installation
- Download latest Fancy Image Gallery
- Unpack fancy_image_gallery._X.Y.Z.zip under wolf/plugins/ directory
- Go to Administration->Plugins and enable plugin
- Jquery setup:
For Wolf 0.6.0+
- Download at least jquery v.1.4.2 and link it somewhere between < head > tags in your Layout.
For Wolf 0.5.5
- Download jquery v.1.3.2 and link it somewhere between < head > tags in your Layout.
Below that, put this code:
<?php fancy_resources(); ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function(){
$(".photo").fancybox({
'zoomSpeedIn': 500,
'zoomSpeedOut': 500,
'overlayShow': true });
});
</script>
That’s it. You have finished installation and set up of Fancy Image Gallery plugin. For further usage read Documentation page under Fancy Image Gallery tab.
Translation
Plugin comes with i18n folder where you can put your translations as well. Available translations are:
- english (default)
- croatian (ours)
- german (thanks to a.renz)
- french (thanks to oweb)
- spanish (thanks to rafaguilarsol)
- dutch (thanks to Fortron)
- russian (thanks to Konstantin Baev)
- polish (thanks to nowotny)
Any contributions for other languages are more then welcome. Just translate file to your language and send it via e-mail to one of the authors. You have our e-mail address under Documentation page inside plugin tab.
To do
Like any other software, this one has some flaws. We will try to fix as much as we can and publish updated code ASAP. If you have any suggestions write a post with short description of future/possible upgrade on the Wolf’s forum.
- add drop down menu with different width/height link dropped
- possibility to create thumbs only by width or height dropped
- - resize & crop (avoid distorted images) –
“human readable sorting”v0.8.1rearrange default css stylesadd more user error checksadding images to existing gallery is causing double creation of thumbsfixedgallery doesn’t work if extension is in uppercase letters (photo.JPG)fixed
Authors
Developer and leading math brain: Sanja Andjelkovic
Coder and wannabe developer: Dejan Andjelkovic
Many thanks to our man from the shadow for his help: Martijn van der Kleijn
Changelog
Version 0.8.6 (May 2011)
- Title of images are displayed correctly (without suffix/underscores)
- Thumbs crop and resize portrait/landscape mode
- Documentation corrected
- Minor code fixes
Version 0.8.5 (March 2011)
- Fixed role/permission glitch
Version 0.8.4 (December 2010/March 2011)
- Polish translation added (thanks to nowotny)
- Russian translation added (thanks to Konstantin Baev)
- extra files removed
Version 0.8.3 (August 2010)
- fixed bug with arrows and jQuery v.1.4.3 (thanks IntelX86)
- minor bugs and tweaks in backend (thanks to Fortron)
- fixed Dutch translation (Fortron)
Version 0.8.2 (August 2010)
- All translations are re-encoded to UTF-8 without BOM (thanks to Fortron)
- Added Dutch translation
Version 0.8.1 (August 2010)
- Added sorting for images either alphabeticaly (apple.jpg, beans.jpg, hog.jpg … zed.jpg ) or numericaly (1.jpg, 2-bread.jpg, 3-banana.jpg … 99-end.jpg)
- Added Spanish translation
- Fixed support for “BASE_URL” aka. now you don’t need to have MOD_REWRITE turned on
- Tested succesfully with 0.7.0 beta
Version 0.8.0
- Fixed minor glitches with paths
- Fancybox plugin updated to it’s latest version (1.3.0)
- Tested with jQuery 1.4.1 (everything works!)
- Added extra options for image effects (see Documentation)
- Changed the default image size for “fancy_parent” function. Now looks more appropriate
- Css file rewritten (see Documentation)
- Documentation page updated
Version 0.7.3
- Minor bugs fixed including support for re-uploading images with uppercase extensions and re-creating gallery
Version 0.7.2
- Fixed issue that caused multiple thumb creation when you add new images to existing gallery
Version 0.7.1
- Fixed issue that was causing gallery to froze when extension was written with uppercase letter (.JPG, .PNG or .GIF) instead of lowercase
Download
For Wolf v.0.7.+
Current version available for download: Fancy Image Gallery 0.8.6
For Wolf v.0.6.0
Current version available for download: Fancy Image Gallery 0.8.3_w6
For Wolf v.0.5.5
Current version available for download: Fancy Image Gallery 0.7.3