Won't someone will build a box for Black Paul?

[reddragdiva]

damned_colonial is right: all gallery software sucks too. I've just tried Flickr and it sucks too. I suppose it's not really a gallery site (like Fotopic), more a photo blogging site. I've put up the B-Movie: Lost Boys photos from Friday on it TEMPORARILY. No captions as yet. I can't find the way to change the appearance of a set, and if I read the FAQ right then free users get three photo sets total. Hints and tips from you enthusiastic Flickr fans on how to do what I actually want would be welcomed.

Gallery 2 is still annoying me. I've beaten most of the annoyances out of it and could probably beat many of the rest out (colours, logos, etc.) by hacking the PHP. Does anyone know how to get it to email comments to you automatically? Surely you aren't supposed to iteratively check possibly thousands of photos for new comments.

Slowly coalescing at the back of my brain is what I'd need to write my own gallery system. In unspeakable shell scripts, of course. I'll probably have to learn CSS as well, after having assiduously avoided it for several years.

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[reddragdiva]

I've just been playing with it. The URLs suck (but I can live with that) and you have to tunnel too far down to get to the albums (but I can probably work around that) and the flood of random images on the front annoys me (but they can probably be disabled or at least hacked out) — but the only thing making me cough up my own skull is that you can only go from the "normal" sized image to the full original image with a JavaScript URL, not a normal clickable one, so it will ONLY open in a new window, not in a tab. Is there a config option to get rid of this behaviour?

See http://factsite.co.uk/cmine/ for test data ...

[loom.livejournal.com]

Soething went weird..

The URLs suck (but I can live with that)
I don't think urls can be changed

you have to tunnel too far down to get to the albums (but I can probably work around that)
Your albums are user albums, If you create them through the admin interface, they show up on the front page under categories you specify.

the flood of random images on the front annoys me (but they can probably be disabled or at least hacked out)
The front page layout is controlled through admin->config->album list view->The content of the fornt page the default is something like "breadcrumb/catlist/alblist/random,2/lastup,2"

I think that getting rid of the "random" entry will make it go away it.

but the only thing making me cough up my own skull is that you can only go from the "normal" sized image to the full original image with a JavaScript URL, not a normal clickable one, so it will ONLY open in a new window, not in a tab. Is there a config option to get rid of this behaviour?

You'll have to hack the php

function theme_html_picture() in include/theme.inc.php contains

$pic_html = "<a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"MM_openBrWindow('displayimage.php?pid=$pid&fullsize=1','" . uniqid(rand()) . "','scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,resizable=yes,width=$winsizeX,height=$winsizeY')\">";

Something like
$pic_html = "<a href=\"displayimage.php?pid=$pid&fullsize=1'\">";

should do it. It'll probably lose all the navigation stuff...

[reddragdiva]

I shall give that a try!

[reddragdiva]

Yep, that did the trick! Now to try hacking the rest ...

[loom.livejournal.com]

I'm not actually seeing the image full size. hmm. also, the close this window javascript is still there, I'll have a look at the code when I get home tonight.

[reddragdiva]

Needs a bit more hacking. But so far this is looking just fine.