New Theme: Greypop

I probably should have posted my system information, so here it is for reference.

Gallery version = 2.1.2 core 1.1.0.2
PHP version = 4.4.4 cgi
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Unix) PHP/4.4.2 mod_ssl/2.0.54 OpenSSL/0.9.7e mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 DAV/2 SVN/1.3.2
Database = mysql 5.0.24a-standard-log, lock.system=flock
Toolkits = ArchiveUpload, Exif, Ffmpeg, Getid3, NetPBM, SquareThumb, Thumbnail, Gd
Acceleration = partial/21600, partial/21600
Operating system = Linux seltzer 2.4.32-grsec+f6b+gr217+nfs+a32+fuse23+tg+++opt+c8+gr2b-v6.194 #1 SMP Tue Jun 6 15:52:09 PDT 2006 i686
Default theme = matrix
Locale = en_US
Browser = Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.1) Gecko/20061204 Firefox/2.0.0.1

I had been trying to do this in 'albumlight.tpl'. I had been trying in album.tpl and nothing worked. (Maybe 'LV' can explain what each of these do.)

Anyway, take out (around line 29)
<h2> {$theme.item.title|markup} </h2>

This should also work in photo.tpl, but I have not tried.

I also played with the gidescription in theme.css to get the space a bit narrower.

.giDescription {
    font-size: 1.1em;
    line-height: 1.4em;

CHANGED TO

.giDescription {
    font-size: 1.1em;
    line-height: 1.0em;

Also changed:

#gallery p {
    margin: 0.6em 0;
    padding: 0;

To

#gallery p {
    margin: 0.0em 0;
    padding: 0;

If you want an explanation of why/how these work, ya need someone else. i'm just a tinkerer.

John
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Gallery version = 2.2-rc-1 core 1.1.26
PHP version = 5.0.4 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/5.0.4
Database = mysql 4.1.11-nt-log, lock.system=database
Toolkits = Exif

Use JRSForums suggestion to remove the title. To remove it from the breadcrumb edit /modules/core/templates/blocks/BreadCrumb.tpl and remove these lines from the bottom of the file.

  <span class="BreadCrumb-{counter name="BreadCrumb"}">
     {$theme.item.title|markup:strip|default:$theme.item.pathComponent}</span>

Oh I forgot the question about adding other stuff to the lightbox. All you have to do is open up albumlight.tpl, before.tpl, and after.tpl and change the links that have lightbox in them. Be careful though as if you add something with an ' it will break.

LV.....

Sorry to report....changes do not seem to fix it.

I copied all the new 1.2.2 files in. then rolled the changes into my 'local' versions, as applicable.

That didn't work, so I "killed" the local versions of al.tpl and .icc. Still didn't work...i.e. problem stayed the same.

John
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Gallery version = 2.2-rc-1 core 1.1.26
PHP version = 5.0.4 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/5.0.4
Database = mysql 4.1.11-nt-log, lock.system=database
Toolkits = Exif

LV....

I did some checking and foun that when creating a new album with Gallery Remote, the 'album description' does, in fact (surprise...common use of word) update the 'Description' in G2 'captions'.

So, this will show (with default templates) at the top of the photo thumbnails page for the album, but not under the thumb for the album (which would use 'Summary').

If you want to show the album 'description' under the album thumb you need to change the following code at line 126 in albumlight.tpl

Change:

 {if !empty($child.summary)}
  <p class="giDescription">
  {$child.summary|markup|entitytruncate:256}
   </p>

To:

   {if !empty($child.description)}
    <p class="giDescription">
     {$child.description|markup|entitytruncate:256}
     </p>

Since photo 'captions' would be entered individually, I have not yet decided if I will change those....but either one of the above methods could be used, depending on whether you wanted to show 'summary' or 'description'.

John

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Gallery version = 2.2-rc-1 core 1.1.26
PHP version = 5.0.4 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/5.0.4
Database = mysql 4.1.11-nt-log,lock.system=database

In Site Admin go under maintenance and delete template cache.

For getting rid of the duplicate showing of album title, I actually took it one step further:

 {if !empty($theme.item.description)} <!-- moved this from after the if-/if below, 
                                           so to get rid of the whole div if there 
                                           isn't a description -->
        <div class="gbBlock gcBackground1">
          <table style="width: 100%">
            <tr>
              <td>
                {if !empty($theme.item.title)}
                <!-- <h2> {$theme.item.title|markup} </h2> 
                (could delete this whole if-/if now, but wanted to test first -->
                {/if}
                <p class="giDescription">
                  {$theme.item.description|markup}
                </p>
              </td>
            </tr>
          </table>
        </div>
 {/if}           <!-- this was after the </p> above -->

This eliminates an extra table and white bottom border for albums without a description.

Thanks for the help!
--eon--

John,

In albumlight.tpl at this part

                <div>
                  {if isset($theme.params.$frameType) && isset($child.thumbnail)}
		    {g->container type="imageframe.ImageFrame" frame=$theme.params.$frameType
				  width=$child.thumbnail.width height=$child.thumbnail.height}
				  {if $child.canContainChildren}
                  <a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">
                  {elseif isset($child.resizedId)}
		      <a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" rev="{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.resizedId`"}" title='<h4>{$child.title|markup}</h4><br><a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">View Photo Page</a><br>{g->block type=exif.ExifInfo item=`$child`}' rel="lightbox[photos]">
		          {else}
		          <a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" rev="{g->url arg1="view=core.DownloadItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}" title='<h4>{$child.title|markup}</h4><br><a href="{g->url arg1="view=core.ShowItem" arg2="itemId=`$child.id`"}">View Photo Page</a><br>{g->block type=exif.ExifInfo item=`$child`}' rel="lightbox[photos]">
		          {/if}
			{g->image id="%ID%" item=$child image=$child.thumbnail
			 class="%CLASS% giThumbnail"}
		      </a>
		    {/g->container}

to add in this

                <div>{$child.resizedId}

Then see if it lists some numbers at the top of the images.

The X button only shows up if lightbox itself has to resize the picture to fit in the current browser size. I didn't write lightbox so I don't know how to change it to show the full sized picture. If your able to figure out how it's done let me know. Why can't you live without it?

I have had it checked as a global almost from the beginning. I had Nav on all screens except cart, until I made the change.

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Gallery version = 2.2-rc-1 core 1.1.26
PHP version = 5.0.4 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/5.0.4
Database = mysql 4.1.11-nt-log,lock.system=database

I believe Lightbox uses Java code which executed the resizing at the client. You need to send the full size image down to have it available to either resize it or show full size ('X' in this implementation. If all you have sent down is the resized image, you could still have the 'X', but the maximum size would be the resized image sent to the client.

When I "implemented" (that is hacked some existing code, with help from others) on G!, I provided the user a "switch" to select either a "small"(resized) or "Large" (full) image. These were then resized (fit to) the window available. It was great for a mix of users having from small screens/dialup to large screens/broadband or any mix in between...and allowed the viewer to choose faster response with smaller images or slower response with larger....and each image (resized or full) could be expanded to it's full size by clicking the screen (such as the 'X'). You still cannot provide truely "full size" images....I shoot with a Canon 5D, which would provide a huge image and rediculously slow load times.

This implemementation has been the one major stumbling blocks keeping me from moving to G2. Greypop is the first theme which has "grabbed" me....plus larger screens and modestly fast broadband is getting pretty common.

John

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Gallery version = 2.2-rc-1 core 1.1.26
PHP version = 5.0.4 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/5.0.4
Database = mysql 4.1.11-nt-log,lock.system=database

I wanted it next to the div tag at the top of that code. The maxedge should be set a bit higher then the max edge of the resized picture.

Well, I could live without it: I just don't want to. I guess it's because full-sized images break my layout with gallery embedded. And it just seems like a better way to view full size images (specifically when you lose your position in lightbox after leaving from it.)

I'll definitely see if I can make it work and I'll be sure to let you know how, if successful. Thanks a ton for all the help, because I wouldn't have known where to begin without it.

John, Can you attach your theme.inc file here?

rogun, Is there a reason you want such large full size images? If it's just for things like cart it will you the full size images anyways.

John try and turn on debug mode for me. To turn on debug mode edit config.php in the gallery2 folder and change

$gallery->setDebug(false);

to

$gallery->setDebug('buffered');

I'm not sure what class the debug code uses if it uses any, but what I wanted to see was in the popup. The popup shows all the template variables. The stuff at the bottom of the page shows more module and database errors. You can turn it off now. Unfortainatly it is something in theme.inc that is not working right. Let me look into some of the other lightbox threads and see if I see something. I didn't write the part in theme.inc so I don't know exactly how it works.

One add'l question....

On the 'Lightbox' "Photo Properties" table for the EXIF data...

If I have 'Colorpack' set to 'NONE', the background for each table item is white, like the rest of the "frame" around the image.

If I have "Colowpack' set to 'Greymatter', the background is a dark-ish grey, which makes it difficult to see the black text.

Can you tell me where and how to enter different color for this background?

Thanks....John

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Gallery version = 2.2-rc-1 core 1.1.26
PHP version = 5.0.4 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/5.0.4
Database = mysql 4.1.11-nt-log,lock.system=database

Thanks, but I like & want the grey/black background. I did try PGcharcoal, but have similar problems.

John

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Gallery version = 2.2-rc-1 core 1.1.26
PHP version = 5.0.4 apache2handler
Webserver = Apache/2.0.54 (Win32) mod_ssl/2.0.53 OpenSSL/0.9.7f PHP/5.0.4
Database = mysql 4.1.11-nt-log,lock.system=database

That part of the code is in the js files for lightbox.

The reason is that I like to view full-size images and I like the simple and elegant method which lightbox uses to do it. I haven't had time to mess with it recently, and it may be a while before I do, so I'm doing without the full-size image link right now. I don't know when I'll get around to it, but like I said previously, I'll be sure to let you know if I figure anything out.

Dear lvthunder,

Using your Greypop theme (for which I thank you), I built a large familly photo site where a bunch of retired aunts and uncles bless me everyday for having done so. Now these fine people (no admin priviledges given to them) would like to be able to add comments of their own to specific photos. They would also like to see my comments (me, the photo "owner") already available in thumbnail mode, when the photo they are consulting is enlarged with your excellent "lightbox" feature. Is there a way of doing so? I'm asking because I spent in vain a couple of hours trying to find the answer on the Web.

Also, do you know of some add-on to your theme that I could implement to have them vote on the photos?

Thank you for your help.

I like the theme, but is there a way the get rid of the space at top of the theme?

Me again, lvthunder,

Thank you for trying to help. You must understand your answer would only make sense to me if I'd know where to look, what to look for and what to do with what I might find. I guess before asking questions in this Help Forum one must be more fluent in php English than I am. If it's at my level of knowledge to install, adapt and configure Gallery2 with a nice theme like yours, I don't have what it takes (aka knowledge and time) to start tweeking unknown lines of code in the tpl files.

I'm sorry to have bothered. I'll try otherwise. Gallery2 is a great product.

Best regards.

Well I finally managed to find my ways around Gallery2 with your Greypop theme. I did a little tweaking, typed some HTML and was able to finish the <a href="http://www.nelsondumais.com/photos.html">familly photos site</a>. As you said, it's basically HTML, not PHP. As a result, everybody loves it and they all think your design is gorgeous. Thank you.