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hi all

I'm looking for an alternative gallery function to display images in a gallery on a friend's website.

at the moment i'm using an imbedded Flickr gallery... but would like something a little different. i know the kind of thing i want, and have seen it in action, but can't remember where!

you're presented with a thumbnail gallery, and when you click on a thumbnail, the website kind of 'greys out' and the image opens up nearly full screen.

does anyone get what i mean... :thumbs:
... (and know what I need to install, where I can download the code/script?)

the gallery is currently here:
http://www.silentsocial.com/gallery.html

or ideally, if you know of another Flickr script that I could embed as this one doesn't seem to be the best?
 
Have you tried Simple Viewer? Its a free flash viewer for creating galleries, you can use it standalone or through photoshop.
 
Carol said:
Have you tried Simple Viewer? Its a free flash viewer for creating galleries, you can use it standalone or through photoshop.
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hi Carol
thanks for the suggestion, it looks good, and can use Flickr photostreams too! :thumbs:
 
Lightbox is integrated into or available in many packages these days, both gallery software and add-ons for blogs.
 
cheers for the suggestions guys, are any of the above compatible with Flickr? it makes life so much easier to upload images to flickr (which i'd do anyway) and have a gallery like Lightbox to use sets/collections already uploaded.
 
benners said:
cheers for the suggestions guys, are any of the above compatible with Flickr? it makes life so much easier to upload images to flickr (which i'd do anyway) and have a gallery like Lightbox to use sets/collections already uploaded.
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If there's not it wouldn't be too difficult to create a script to do it.

Each set on flickr has it's own rss feed which you could parse in your website, applying the lightbox script to the code generated from the rss feed.
 
I use a lightbox plugin with my Wordpress Gallery

Dead easy to setup and get working
 
are there any of these APIs which don't require PHP?
have only got a simple hosting package (no mysql or php) :(

don't want to upgrade the package really...
 
benners said:
are there any of these APIs which don't require PHP?
have only got a simple hosting package (no mysql or php) :(

don't want to upgrade the package really...
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Lightbox doesn't, download the lightbox js files, upload them to your webspace.

Add a link to the lightbox files into the head section of your webpage.

Add rel="lightbox" into your <a> tag around each image .

Mine looks like this:

In the head section
Code: 
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/lightbox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />        
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/menu.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/prototype.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/scriptaculous.js?load=effects,builder"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="/js/lightbox.js"></script>

Then your image tages would look like this
Code: 
 <a href="/images/gallery/0555209001264968589.jpeg" title="No play today - A snowbound Castle Eden golf course" rel="lightbox[Landscape &amp; Scenery]">
                    <img  src="/images/gallery/thumbs/0555209001264968589.jpeg" alt="Portfolio - Landscape &amp; Scenery"/>
                </a>

If you add rel="lightbox[mygallery]" to number of images then you can click next/previous and it will rotate through the images with the [mygallery] tag.

See here - http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/ - everything should be explained.

And if you need ay help just pm me. :)
 
cheers keeps :)

can lightbox link in with Flickr?
 
You'd need to be able to somehow pull the images from flickr into your site, format them, add a link and apply the lightbox tag.

The easiest way I saw was to parse the flickr image set RSS feed.

Unfortunately to parse the RSS feed you'd need to make use of a scripting language, such as PHP.

Although I think you said you didn't have php enabled on your hosting so that's not much use to you.
 
If you you want a slideshow to integrate with Flickr why don't you just embed a Flickr slideshow?
 
Craikeybaby said:
If you you want a slideshow to integrate with Flickr why don't you just embed a Flickr slideshow?
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back to the original post: ;)

benners said:
at the moment i'm using an imbedded Flickr gallery... but would like something a little different. i know the kind of thing i want, and have seen it in action, but can't remember where!
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the one you can embed isn't overly efficient, it often seems to 'miss' thumbnails in the bar across the bottom.
and i don't think it's compatible with some browser/setup combinations... a couple of people i know can't get the thumbnail bar across the bottom :(
 
Doh, I thought that was too obvious!

Anything that pulls images of Flickr is going to need to link back, to comply with Flickr's policies, but looking at the Lightbox script above you are manually entering the location of the images, so you should be able to use the Flickr address without needing any PHP, but you would need to update it manually.
 
Craikeybaby said:
Doh, I thought that was too obvious!

Anything that pulls images of Flickr is going to need to link back, to comply with Flickr's policies, but looking at the Lightbox script above you are manually entering the location of the images, so you should be able to use the Flickr address without needing any PHP, but you would need to update it manually.
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I never thought of entering the addresses manually, I guess I like things to be done automatically where possible.

So if you want to add the addresses of the images to your webpage manually you'll be able to do that and use lightbox, to pull the addresses/images from flickr automatically you'd need to use a scripting language such as php.
 
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