Full AJAX Theme

rrhode

Joined: 2008-05-21
Posts: 43

Posted: Tue, 2008-12-09 00:24

Hi there,

I have been working on a site for awhile now. It is using Lightbox for the popup images. However I noticed that after adding over 2800 images to the site the page is becoming very large. 2 Megs already. I believe this is because of the way that the lightbox part of the theme is adding links to all images on the site to be able to show them all by using the Prev and Next links in the lightbox. Having every page of the site being this large is simply not good.

So what I want to do is make the entire theme somehow AJAX based. The part where it loads up the images inside the album will be AJAX based so that it doesn't have to keep loading each page of the site for the next page of images. Then you click one of these images and it pops up the lightbox type window. That window will also be AJAX based so that it can pull an image off the server and not have to load links for each one of them.

The problem is I have no idea how to do this at this point. So my question is, has anyone seen a theme like this or has anyone done this before and if so, can I have the theme? If it is free then that would be awesome. If not then I could probably pay for it.

I found this: http://codex.gallery2.org/Ajax

I have no idea where to start with that though or even if it would be what I need to do this.

The AJAXIAN theme doesn't seem to be what I am looking for at all.

Maybe I should get rid of lightbox and use something else like slimbox.

Any help is very much appreciated! Thank you =)

Ryan

rrhode

Joined: 2008-05-21
Posts: 43

Posted: Mon, 2008-12-15 15:21

So I take it that nobody has seen or created an AJAX theme like the one I am looking for that they would be willing to share with me. So does anyone know where I should start? Would it make sense to start with the AJAXIAN theme and modify it or is it full of extra things I don't actually need to do what I want? This is something that will be done one way or the other so if anyone would like to help out or wants a similar thing this is a good time to get involved. I don't know if I can do this myself. I just know that it has to be done one way or the other. So what is the going rate for paying someone to do such a thing?

alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4342

Posted: Mon, 2008-12-15 15:39

Quote:

The problem is I have no idea how to do this at this point.

the support for AJAX in the Gallery2 core code isn't, er, very good, so you'll have to do pretty much all of the hard work yourself, writing a lot of new Views to output the JSON/XML/html that you want. That makes it rather more than 'just' a new theme.

The (forthcoming) Gallery3 will feature AJAX-style interfaces much more heavily, and have better support for them from the ground up.

rrhode

Joined: 2008-05-21
Posts: 43

Posted: Mon, 2008-12-15 17:38

So I guess I wait for Gallery 3 then for this. Thank you for letting me know =)

mrwilly123

Joined: 2005-07-23
Posts: 57

Posted: Thu, 2010-10-07 05:16

So after years away from working on my last gallery project, I return with a client's project and lo and behold Gallery 3 is out!

I'm looking for a good G3 AJAX theme. Are there any out there yet?

rrhode Joined: 2008-05-21 Posts: 43	Posted: Tue, 2008-12-09 00:24
	Hi there, I have been working on a site for awhile now. It is using Lightbox for the popup images. However I noticed that after adding over 2800 images to the site the page is becoming very large. 2 Megs already. I believe this is because of the way that the lightbox part of the theme is adding links to all images on the site to be able to show them all by using the Prev and Next links in the lightbox. Having every page of the site being this large is simply not good. So what I want to do is make the entire theme somehow AJAX based. The part where it loads up the images inside the album will be AJAX based so that it doesn't have to keep loading each page of the site for the next page of images. Then you click one of these images and it pops up the lightbox type window. That window will also be AJAX based so that it can pull an image off the server and not have to load links for each one of them. The problem is I have no idea how to do this at this point. So my question is, has anyone seen a theme like this or has anyone done this before and if so, can I have the theme? If it is free then that would be awesome. If not then I could probably pay for it. I found this: http://codex.gallery2.org/Ajax I have no idea where to start with that though or even if it would be what I need to do this. The AJAXIAN theme doesn't seem to be what I am looking for at all. Maybe I should get rid of lightbox and use something else like slimbox. Any help is very much appreciated! Thank you =) Ryan
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rrhode Joined: 2008-05-21 Posts: 43	Posted: Mon, 2008-12-15 15:21
	So I take it that nobody has seen or created an AJAX theme like the one I am looking for that they would be willing to share with me. So does anyone know where I should start? Would it make sense to start with the AJAXIAN theme and modify it or is it full of extra things I don't actually need to do what I want? This is something that will be done one way or the other so if anyone would like to help out or wants a similar thing this is a good time to get involved. I don't know if I can do this myself. I just know that it has to be done one way or the other. So what is the going rate for paying someone to do such a thing?

alecmyers Joined: 2006-08-01 Posts: 4342	Posted: Mon, 2008-12-15 15:39
	Quote: The problem is I have no idea how to do this at this point. the support for AJAX in the Gallery2 core code isn't, er, very good, so you'll have to do pretty much all of the hard work yourself, writing a lot of new Views to output the JSON/XML/html that you want. That makes it rather more than 'just' a new theme. The (forthcoming) Gallery3 will feature AJAX-style interfaces much more heavily, and have better support for them from the ground up.

rrhode Joined: 2008-05-21 Posts: 43	Posted: Mon, 2008-12-15 17:38
	So I guess I wait for Gallery 3 then for this. Thank you for letting me know =)

mrwilly123 Joined: 2005-07-23 Posts: 57	Posted: Thu, 2010-10-07 05:16
	So after years away from working on my last gallery project, I return with a client's project and lo and behold Gallery 3 is out! I'm looking for a good G3 AJAX theme. Are there any out there yet?

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