Slider based photo viewing

farhaneee

Joined: 2009-08-04
Posts: 36
Posted: Tue, 2009-08-04 12:51

Hi Everyone I'm new in the community,
I loved what you guys have developed, I'm trying to copy this style in my web site but I have no clues where to start. Please help me try to figure it out, or if it is not possible at all let me know so I don't waste time searching.

What I'm trying to do is after the visitor clicks the album thumbnail it goes to the next page where we can see a Big image of the first picture of the Album and beneath it a Slider kind of horizontal navigation. and beneath it the comments the ratings and the EXIF info of the selected picture ..example http://www.raven-photography.nl/148/Playground%20of%20the%20past

Is it possible in gallery 2 or 3?, I'm willing to learn PHP for this and maybe contribute mystyle in the user contribution if any lend me a good direction.

thanks
looking forward for your response
Farhan
 
nivekiam
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Posted: Tue, 2009-08-04 12:58

You mean similar to this:
http://themes.gallery2.hu/index.php?g2_theme=ajaxian&g2_colorpack=none&g2_frame=none

Or how about this:
http://themes.gallery2.hu/index.php?g2_theme=slider

Those aren't exactly what you're looking for, but close and with some modification could do what you want.
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farhaneee

Joined: 2009-08-04
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Posted: Tue, 2009-08-04 13:07

Hi thanks,
Yes very similar to the first link , Ideal would be If I can add more stuff to it make the micro thumbnails in just 1 row, and have the PGlightBox theme with charcoal colors pack i'm currently trying to custumize my site http://farhan.hostzi.com/main.php
so do you recommend I start in the code of PGLight? how and where should I start? or I can just copy and paste stuff from existing places.
 
nivekiam
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Posted: Tue, 2009-08-04 13:18

I'm not familiar with any of the PG themes (other than IMO, they are bloated because they try to include every feature under the sun)

But you should be able to do what you want. It's mostly going to be getting into your html, css, javascript skills at that point. Copying and pasting stuff from existing places may work and it may not, it depends on what that theme is doing. You can expose more stuff to the themes by editing (and programming in php) theme.inc so some themes have more functionality than others.

Start working on it and if you have specific questions, ask.

NOTE: Development on Gallery2 is done. No new features will be released. All major development and everything new will be in G3. Themes from G2 will NOT be portable to G3. So if you're wanting to make a huge time investment you may want to look at G3 depending on what you want to do. G3 doesn't have all the features of G2 at the moment, but the basics are there, EXIF, Comments, though no ratings at the moment. G3 will also be easier to customize.
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farhaneee

Joined: 2009-08-04
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Posted: Tue, 2009-08-04 13:43

Thanks nivekiam,