thanks for this plugin. it might help me in my application, which is to provide album/galleries which can be edited (ie. new images added, taken away, etc.) through web interface.
That's my goal eventually, too. Perhaps you can help to
design/write this plugin? At the moment I'm mostly
waiting for a design "sanity check" from [[Joey]],
but any feedback you can provide on the design would
also be helpful. --[[smcv]]
i have two challenges: firstly, for installation, i'm not sure what all the files are that need to be downloaded (because of my setup i can't easily pull the repo). so far i have Ikiwiki/Plugins/album.pm; ikiwiki-album; and 4 files in templates/ any others?
Those are all the added files; ikiwiki-album isn't strictly
needed (IkiWiki itself doesn't use that code, but you can
use it to turn a directory full of images into correct
input for the album plugin).
You probably also want the album plugin's expanded version of
style.css (or put its extra rules in your local.css).
Without that, your albums will be quite ugly.
There aren't currently any other files modified by my branch.
--[[smcv]]
secondly: barring the CGI interface for editing the album, which would be great, is there at least a way to use attachment plugin or any other to manually add images and then create viewers for them?
Images are just attachments, and viewers are pages (any supported
format, but .html will be fastest to render). Attach each image,
then write a page for each image containing the
[[!albumimage]] directive (usually it will only contain that
directive).
The script ikiwiki-album can help you to do this in a git/svn/etc.
tree; doing it over the web will be a lot of work (until I get
the CGI interface written), but it should already be possible!
The structure is something like this:
- album.mdwn (contains the [[!album]] directive, and perhaps also
some [[!albumsection]] directives)
- album/a.jpg
- album/a.html (contains the [[!albumimage]] directive for a.jpg)
- album/b.jpg
- album/b.html (contains the [[!albumimage]] directive for b.jpg)
Have a look at ikiwiki-album to see how the directives are meant to
work in practice.
--[[smcv]]
i'm new to ikiwiki, apologies if this is dealt with elsewhere. -brush
This plugin is pretty ambitious, and is unfinished, so I'd recommend
playing with a normal IkiWiki installation for a bit, then trying
out this plugin when you've mastered the basics of IkiWiki. --[[smcv]]
