From c94dce8afaab602978a2856155c310b8fc3947cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 13:07:58 -0400 Subject: --- doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn | 100 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 100 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn (limited to 'doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn') diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..94d5789d7 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +[[!template id=plugin name=album author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] +[[!tag type/chrome]] + +Available from [[smcv]]'s git repository, in the `album` branch +([[users/smcv/gallery|users/smcv/gallery]] contains some older +thoughts about this plugin). + +This plugin formats a collection of images into a photo album, +in the same way as many websites: good examples include the +PHP application [Gallery](http://gallery.menalto.com/), Flickr, +and Facebook's Photos "application". I've called it `album` +to distinguish it from [[contrib/gallery|plugins/contrib/gallery]], +although `gallery` might well be a better name for this functionality. + +The web UI I'm trying to achieve consists of one +[HTML page of thumbnails](http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/2008-03-08-panic-cell-gig/) +as an entry point to the album, where each thumbnail links to +[a "viewer" HTML page](http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/2008-03-08-panic-cell-gig/img_0068/) +with a full size image, next/previous thumbnail links, and +[[plugins/comments]]. + +(The Summer of Code [[plugins/contrib/gallery]] plugin does the +next/previous UI in Javascript using Lightbox, which means that +individual photos can't be bookmarked in a meaningful way, and +the best it can do as a fallback for non-Javascript browsers +is to provide a direct link to the image.) + +## Writing the viewers + + \[[!albumimage image=foo.jpg album=myalbum + title=... + caption=... + copyright=... + size=... + viewertemplate=... + ]] + +Each viewer contains one `\[[!albumimage]]` directive. This +sets the `image` filename, the `album` in which this image appears, +and an optional `caption`, and can override the `size` at which to +display the image and the `viewertemplate` to use to display the +image. + +It can also have `title`, `copyright` and `date` parameters, which +are short-cuts for [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directives. + +The viewer can also have any other content, but typically the +directive will be the only thing there. + +Eventually, there will be a specialized CGI user interface to +edit all the photos of an album at once, upload a new photo +(which will attach the photo but also write out a viewer page +for it), or mark an already-uploaded photo as a member of an +album (which is done by writing out a viewer page for it). + +The `\[[!albumimage]]` directive is replaced by an +[[ikiwiki/directive/img]], wrapped in some formatting using a +template (by default `albumviewer.tmpl`). The template can (and +should) also include "next photo", "previous photo" and +"up to gallery" links. + +The next/previous links are themselves implemented by +[[inlining|ikiwiki/directive/inline]] the next or previous +photo, using a special template (by default `albumnext.tmpl` +or `albumprev.tmpl`), in `archive`/`quick` mode. + +## Writing the album + +The album contains one `\[[!album]]` directive. It may also +contain any number of `\[[!albumsection]]` directives, for +example the demo album linked above could look like: + + \[[!album]] + + + ## Gamarra + + \[[!albumsection filter="link(gamarra)"]] + + + ## Smokescreen + + \[[!albumsection filter="link(smokescreen)"]] + + + ... + +The `\[[!album]]` directive is replaced by an +[[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] which automatically includes every +page that has an `\[[!albumimage]]` directive linking it to this +album, except those that will appear in an `\[[!albumsection]]`. + +The `inline` is in `archive`/`quick` mode, but includes some +extra information about the images, including file size and a +thumbnail (again, made using [[ikiwiki/directive/img]]). The +default template is `albumitem.tmpl`, which takes advantage +of these things. + +Each `\[[!albumsection]]` is replaced by a similar inline, which +selects a subset of the photos in the album. -- cgit v1.2.3