Comments on: Easy PHP Photo Gallery

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:34:27 +0000

Hi Joe,

It is a long time ago since i asked a question about the photo gallery. The previous version is still in use and almost completely rebuild. But i have one question about the page ‘loop’ previous - next. when navigate trough the pages you start for example by pictue 1 and finisch by 30 but when you press next again, you’re back at the beginning. Now is my question, which part of code do i need to change for simply start by 1 and end by (for example )30?

Greetings, Mark (Netherlands)

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 15:38:59 +0000

@David I can’t speak to the PHP portion; but the output is a jQuery gallery plugin called ColorBox.

By: David

David — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:37:40 +0000

I’m stumpted. I have a php gallery on my website, webmaster made it for me a year or so ago, he’s gone and the new webmaster can’t find the php gallery code as the original is embedded within some big overall php set up, or something.

Anyway you could, after seeing the gallery page on my site (click the gallery link) that you could ascertain which php gallery it is and send me the coding for it? It’s close to the one you have on this webpage.

Thanks

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 23:52:09 +0000

Joe, Greetings Sir and thank you.
Every time I try to make one step forwards I seem to go two steps backwards.
When I started my project I didn’t have a clue with programming.
Your Gallery inspired me and after countless library books and ‘Google’ searches am getting far more proficient.
However, there will come a day when I will need to hire your incredible skills.
Currently I am still learning to understand the questions, let alone have the answers.
The past several days I have been learning Javascript (have used it in other areas of my project) and can now currently have one image frame within cycles a set of images. This is to be the introductory page to my website.
Within the site I will use your Gallery, as it was designed, to be used in a static mode.
Love it, so neat and stylish.
Joe, the objective I have is for ANYONE to be able to send me a picture and for my own email system to interrogate the image and reduce its size to 2400 x 1800 and convert from whatever format the camera image was taken into a JPG format.
The sort of tasks you would do in Photoshop I am trying to do dynamically yet transparently to the sender. (Plus far more)
Most of this I can now do.
Hence currently please do not take any action on my request.
Mind you I will have a try at getting Javascript to work within your Gallery when I get a chance and actually one gallery would be sufficient.

Thanking you yet again, your support is incredibly appreciated.
Philip

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:48:19 +0000

@Philip Making the thumbnails automatically cycle would be a JavaScript addition; my goal with this gallery is to make things pretty minimal, but I’d bet that something could be added to the script which would be able to do that under certain conditions. It would be worth looking into, at any rate! Thanks!

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 05:18:17 +0000

Joe greetings. Please delete the messages from 10 Sept.
The ini file suggestion ridiculous and portrait mode resolved anyway.

Joe is there any chance of making the thumbnails a changing collage
say automatically skip to the next after an adjustable period of time?’

Perhaps even cycle to the next gallery?.
That would be awesome.
Oh and Joe inspired by your work I have learned so much re CSS etc etc.

Thank you.
Philip

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:55:32 +0000

Joe, hi again. I have been trying to use portrait pics
in a gallery and found the scaling down to be a bit erratic.
Not staying at a constant 460x600.

By: Philip

Philip — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:52:31 +0000

Joe would it be possible to use a flat text ini file to add a new gallery.
To make it very simple and quick to add a new small gallery.
When you are happy with the general appearance it should be possible
for basic additions in a few moments.

By: Philip

Philip — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 05:38:22 +0000

Joe………………………….
Incredibly impressed. Quite Awesome.
Much easier to install than 1.2.
LOVED you adding thumbnails.
Extremely elegant code, well done Sir.

However may I make two comments, constructive not critical.
a)In basic_styles.css Made change #wrap {width: 640px; text-align: center; margin: 0 auto;}
from #wrap {width: 620px; text-align: center; margin: 0 auto;}
On different pc’s here the thumbnails overlapped the main image.
Actually it did this also with 1.2 and I remembered my fix then.

b)”Skip to thumbnails” does not seem to work.

Overall opinion :- huge congratulations.

By: Joe Dolson

Joe Dolson — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:20:58 +0000

Yeah, you’re right - I always have to reference the manual to doublecheck which is which. I’m guessing you didn’t alter the sort on both the full size image array and the thumbs array? There are two arrays: $image[] and $photo[], both of which you’ll need to adjust.