Fancy Image Gallery

Published by Dejan in plugins, wolf. on 09.04.2010

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”~~ v0.8.1
~~rearrange default css styles~~
~~add more user error checks~~
~~adding images to existing gallery is causing double creation of thumbs~~ fixed
~~gallery 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