I’m wondering if it would be possible to just pull all the images from an image category instead of designating the article image number?

When I got to about 65 images the whole set up stalled and wouldn’t load any more images

Arrrggghhhh, but then….

With help over at the Textpattern Forum it was identified that the Images box where the image numbers are entered had a 255 character limit

Assuming commas are characters…

1-9=18

10-89=237

18+237=255

So if numbers are consecutive the maximum number of images using this method without altering the VARCHAR is 89

I changed the VARCHAR in the database (don’t ask me, I’d never been in there before…..but I found it) to 500 or so and it worked fine

However in the end I simply set up linked gallery pages with 6 times 10 images in each – this makes the list of numbers more manageable

Take care

Stephen

I ‘think’ that was when Marie noticed this

It also looks like your page is not properly linked to the javascript files. for example, you are linking to “/files/jquery.galleriffic.js/” where you should be linking to “mobilizingmouse/files/jquery.gallerific.js/” for both files…

Look at this perhaps

Can you post a link to the page?

Stephen

With Marie’s help, here and behind the scenes, it’s all up and running just fine

http://www.mobilizingmouse.com/mobilizingmouse/gallery/

Now I’m just working on optimizing the file size vs quality for each picture

The steps polishing the code were simple and annoyingly small – missing a ‘/’ in the code as mentioned above for example

In creating this section it also improved my understanding of Textpattern

(It’s really quite a lot like SSI at its core)

Thanks again Marie for the inspiring tutorial

Stephen

Looking at your source code, I can see the error is in your article_image form, so it is not calling the thumbnails properly. Why don’t you email me directly and I can take a look? hello@mariepoulin.com

I’ve gone for the untouched recreation of your example to see if I can set it up before I get creative with the CSS etc

I’ve tried this from scratch three times now and this is what I’m getting here:

http://www.mobilizingmouse.com/mobilizingmouse/gallery/

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\cocoartf949\cocoasubrtf540 {\fonttbl\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Helvetica;} {\colortbl;\red255\green255\blue255;} \margl1440\margr1440\vieww9000\viewh8400\viewkind0 \pard\tx566\tx1133\tx1700\tx2267\tx2834\tx3401\tx3968\tx4535\tx5102\tx5669\tx6236\tx6803\ql\qnatural\pardirnatural \f0\fs24 \cf0 \ }

So since this is code being displayed is this an error in the ‘article_image_form’ or ‘gallery’ forms?

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Further digging about seems to suggest the error in in the syntax of the gallery file

Here’s a screenshot of the section as diagnosed with HyperEdit

http://www.mobilizingmouse.com/images/errors.jpg

This means I think that the scripts are not running and the images are not loading

I did validate the css after adding an escape at the end (*/)here

div.navigation {

/* The navigation style is set by a
javascript generated style on the page.
This is so that the javascript specific styles won’t be applied unless javascript is enabled. */}

Thanks for when you have a minute to look!

take care

Stephen

I can email you my ebl-image-edit? Keep in mind that plugin is not essential for this tutorial to work. you can still use textpattern to create a basic cropped thumbnail, or you can upload a thumbnail separately from the image.

As for the css- its really up to you. If you have a stylesheet that is already in place, just copy the relevant css from the gallery into your own stylesheet.
Alternately, as you said, you could have the gallery page call that css file.

I tend to stick to one css file, so I just move the relevant gallery-specific css into your existing css. (all the relevant gallery stuff is all grouped together, and should be pretty straightforward)… let me know if you have any trouble or need more clarification. (you can email me directly)
Cheers!

Still have not got it working though…….

A couple of questions:

1./ I too had the error message

‘Badly formed or empty plugin code.’

and again at the Version 1 of ebl-image-edit

The upm_image version at the link you provided did work though

Is there a stable version 1 of the ebl-image-edit anywhere?

2./ The CSS

Surely I have to create a separate file sheet for use by the gallery page to prevent every page being governed by the css sheet you provide?

(quote)I have created a master style sheet that incorporates some of the Textpattern defaults as well as galleriffic specific css. Copy the content from the screen.css file provided in the Styles folder and paste it into your default styles tab under Presentation > Style.(endquote)

so are you suggesting then saving this as say gallery.css and using it solely for the gallery page?

I’m fine with CSS but still getting my brain around how Textpattern works.

Stephen

Thanks in advance!

Badly formed or empty plugin code.

btw, great tutorial but i dont understand what to do, i want it to work, i have tried with some galleries but i dont get it to work.

email me, anvar@imaxstudio.se