Can Easy Gallery be slightly modified?

[xmanhattan]

Hello,

I just tried easygallery and found that it is a very nice and simple way for anyone to place pictures on their web site.

I noticed that when I click on a picture that it is opening up very large and I think that it must be using my screen size rather than my browser window size. (Yes, I bought a 22" lcd.) 
The next and prev and close do not show unless I scroll or open my browser window to 100% but I believe that this can be changed by modifying css.

Is there a way that I can modify this so that pictures open either smaller or according to browser size?

Thanks again for a terrific extension.

[xmanhattan]

Another question is whether this extension will work in Elxis 2008 as it is not mentioned in the wiki.

I found a solution for the picture sizing problem.  Resizing original picture to 800px works.

[datahell]

Yes, easy gallery works on Elxis 2008.x
http://www.elxis-downloads.com/com_downloads/image-galleries/222.html

Compatibility: Elxis 2008.0+, PHP5.x

[rentasite]

Can someone plz give a link on a site that has installed Easy Gallery?

Haven't yet installed it, and i would like to see a working demo 

[xmanhattan]

Hmmm, I just loaded it on the internet and for some reason it doesn't work.

I went to the wiki and saw this

Don't use this Bot on pages where you use other Javascript libraries such as jQuery as you will face javascript conflicts and Easy Gallery wont work.

but the template that I am using is BlueBell-hc and it loads

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<script type="text/javascript" src="<?php echo $mainframe->getCfg(&#39;live_site&#39;); ?>/templates/bluebell-hc/lightview/js/lightview.js"></script>
The thumbnails are showing but the gallery is not working although the pictures are opening in a separate html page.

http://www.do-my-site.net/discover-elxis/other-elxis-extension-demonstrations/easy-gallery-show.html

[ROUBOS]

don't like how easy gallery opens up the pictures. The open up in a new window from what I see. It's a bit like IOS gallery.
Have a look at this thread : https://forum.elxis.org/index.php?topic=3890.0

I was given a nice gallery bot. Works perfect. Link should be there on the replies. Download it and install it. You will like it.
Easy to use, and images show inside the browser . Very cool

[xmanhattan]

That's the same gallery.  This post is about a problem.

[xmanhattan]

Still does not work.  I have set this

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{gallery &title=A display of our photos}images/dms-easy-gallery/{/gallery} and file names use latin letters, numbers with either - or _ and with .jpg and .JPG endings.  Also verified directory and file permissions.

Very strange as it works on my local test system.

[datahell]

Remove the ampersand in front of "title".
Change from this: &title=...
to this: title=...

If the any problem persists please describe me which is the exact problem.

[xmanhattan]

Datahell,

Sorry to say that even after the change it still continues to open a new html page with the image.

I uninstalled the bot and then reinstalled but still no change.

[datahell]

Sorry to say that even after the change it still continues to open a new html page with the image.

Now you made the problem clear, you should have mentioned that from the very beginning.
So, Easy Gallery works fine but opens the images in a new window.

This is not an Easy Gallery issue. This can happen only under 2 cases:

1. You have the javascript disabled in your browser. Solution: Enable it.

2. There is a javascript conflict. Easy Gallery uses mootools, if on the same page you use an other javascript library such as jquery or prototype then there will be conflicts. You can not load 2 different javascript libraries on the same page. Solution: Un-publish all the other modules and remove javascript from your site until you find which is the one that conflicts wish easy gallery.


Note: To solve the js conflicts issue I have been decided some months ago to use only mootools in the extensions I built. Mootools has less extensions base and it is harder to learn than jquery but it is much more advanced and powerful than jquery.

[ks-net]

as i have said(suggested)  the other day...
we should add one of this libraries in the default distribution of elxis with an option to load or not from the administrator area... i know it can be done with tpl xml parameters...
but in this way we will produce more conflicts in the future!

the majority of big cms load by default on of those libraries dp=>jguery  joomla => mootools etc..

i think that we can do this => a check box in admin to load or not a complete(core) compressed version of the  default library

if someone want to bypass  can disable it in admin and load other library in his tpl xml parameters or directly in the tpl

what I am saying is   we all must use the same library... we can force this if we add it in the default distribution...
we can say to people that all comps modules and tpls must use this library in order to be full compatible with less conflicts

elxis will load the core and any extension will add the extra scripts..

To solve the js conflicts issue I have been decided some months ago to use only mootools in the extensions I built

why not to expand this?  i think it is about time to think it more seriously .. before developers start(have started) adding those libraries in every extension they build and things become a mess?





 
 

[datahell]

Elxis has a javascript library already included and this is prototype (at the time we add it there were no mootools and jquery). Prototype in Elxis is used only by the Itemid preload feature. To access prototype: includes/js/prototype.js

Adding motools or jquery in elxis is easy but has problems. Why?

1. Which version to add? Usually third party js scripts need a specific version, not any version. There is a way to load remotely (f.e. via Google) always the latest one but this is not a solution as some scripts need a previous version.

2. Which extensions to load? As you may know these libraries have a core part that can be expanded via extensions (text effects, etc). Adding everything will make the library very heavy.

Consering the above I believe that it is much better for someone to add his desired extension in his template and this solution has less problems than the included into elxis one.

An interesting site for those want to learn some things for mootools/jquery: http://jqueryvsmootools.com/

[xmanhattan]

Well, I had another look at the modules that I am using and I noticed that Ultimate Content Display uses jquery but I don't see it being used anywhere else.

My browser javascript is always on and I have not loaded anything other than Elxis modules, bots, or components.

I also have IOSgallery loaded and working.  Could that cause the conflict?

[datahell]

I am sorry but you just answered to your self...

You use UCD that uses jquery and you also use Easy Gallery that uses Mootools and you also use IOS Gallery that uses jquery or prototype (depending on the IOS Gallery gallerific/lightview select option).

You can use only one of them on a specific page. So, dont use Easy Gallery on pages that jquery/prototype is also used.