Looking for Slideshow Module

Fabster · 20.04.2004, 21:55

Hi,

I was playing around with the latest version of RSGallery and was really amazed by the Slideshow-Option. Now I was wondering if there is ans module around, that allows to make several picture appear like a slideshow in, let's say "user1"??

Kind regards
Fabster

tonyskyday · 20.04.2004, 22:02

Hmm. That's an interesting idea. I don't believe it exists at the moment, but maybe it will appear now that you've brought it up.

How exactly do you envision this working?

Would it be thumbnails so it could be in a side column? Or are you thinking whole pictures?

Would it be pictures in the gallery (meaning the module would call the pictures from the gallery), or would it just be a set of pictures that you define?

-Tony

keliix06 · 20.04.2004, 22:13

You could copy the code that produces the slideshow and with a few adjustments have it show in a module.

tonyskyday · 20.04.2004, 22:18

Quote:

Originally Posted by keliix06

You could copy the code that produces the slideshow and with a few adjustments have it show in a module.

Stop giving my programming secrets out for free!

Fabster · 20.04.2004, 22:23

Now You've brought up some thing I was'nt thinking about.

Hmm, I think for me it would work fine, if I could just upload some picture (maybe even zip-upload) and could define the speed and the transition effect in the backend. It should be normal picture not just the thumbnails. Just as a nice effect on the frontpage for example to show some picture to your visitors (maybe even randomly, so it is not started from the beginning everytime I come to this page).

I was just thinking that it would be the easiest way to place it in one of the module's "places" (left, right, user1..). If you make the pictures a smaller size, it could also be in a side column then.

It does not have to be linked or part of a whole gallery. This would depend on how other mambers would prefer. The linking to a gallery should, for my opinion, be optional and not mandatory.

I came up beacause I'm working on a site for a company that rents appartments and thought it would be nice to have "something moving" on the frontpage and giving the user a glimpse of what the appetments are like (without installing a full gallery).

I hope I made myself clear enough

tonyskyday · 20.04.2004, 22:49

So really, there could be two modules, one to pull pics from a propper gallery (RSGallery or AkoGallery), and one for pulling pictures from a directory -- or perhaps there can be a simple component just for loading pictures for this second slideshow module...

keliix06 · 20.04.2004, 22:53

You can have a database table (or flatfile) that contains paths to all of your images. Manually create a module (Modules->Manage Modules->New) and use something like the following (module position can be determined from here):

PHP Code:

  <?php 

global $database;

$database->setQuery( "SELECT link FROM #__apartment_pics ORDER BY random" );

$rows = $database->loadObjectList();

That will get you your randomly ordered list of pictures, then copy the slideshow code and update the image source as needed.

tonyskyday · 20.04.2004, 22:58

Quote:

Originally Posted by keliix06

You can have a database table (or flatfile) that contains paths to all of your images. Manually create a module (Modules->Manage Modules->New) and use something like the following (module position can be determined from here):

PHP Code:

  <?php 

global $database;

$database->setQuery( "SELECT link FROM #__apartment_pics ORDER BY random" );

$rows = $database->loadObjectList();

That will get you your randomly ordered list of pictures, then copy the slideshow code and update the image source as needed.

He also wants parameters for speed and transition effect. I suppose the speed parameter can be taken from the RSGallery code, but does that also have a transition effect parameter?

Edit: Also, I didn't think you could put php in a user module, but making an installable module is trivial.

keliix06 · 20.04.2004, 23:00

Never used it. Used AkoGallery long ago

tonyskyday · 20.04.2004, 23:05

I use AkoGallery myself for my personal site (gotta have pictures of my girls available for the whole family!). I actually am not fond of slideshow features, personally.

Obviously a flat file would work fine, but since there is a database available, might as well use that, then pictures could be uploaded in a userfriendly manner so that the client can easily add/remove pictures.

-Tony