Photofeed fo Joomla
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Introduction
This extension for Joomla! 1.5 and 2.5 that allow you to inline a set of images from your favorite online gallery: Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa, Gallery2/Gallery3 and YouTube or any RSS feed in any article.
It consist of
- 2 plugin
- 1 module
- 1 component
Blog
see http://www.waltercedric.com/tag/cedphotofeed
Features
Features video
http://cedricwalter.smugmug.com/Computers/Joomla/22427539_bNqVWC#!i=1792989446&k=726WRdK&lb=1&s=A
Usage
Usage video
http://cedricwalter.smugmug.com/Computers/Joomla/22427539_bNqVWC#!i=1792994272&k=MKLmCMX&lb=1&s=A
Screenshots
If you put the following in your article
{rss uri=http://cedricwalter.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=4311718_bRCBj&format=rss200 limit=5 from=247}
you get the following result
Installation
Use the Joomla installer like usual or follow these screenshots:
If everything work, you should have the following displayed
Important
publish Button - photofeed
You ll have to search for "Button - photofeed" and edit it, click "Save and Close" to make the plugin work! This is because the installation install the plugin but do not publish it (even if it look like being published, a fix will follow soon)
Plugin ordering
photofeed needed to be higher than rokbox: it need to run before Rokbox to properly work.
example of ordering:
- photofeed in position 9
- rokbox in position 10
Uninstall / Remove
Use the Joomla installer like under Manager
Then click uninstall
Parameters
Order of parameters is not important
- uri (required) = a valid rss feed
- limit (optionnal) = number of images to display from the feed, if empty default value is 10
- from (optionnal) = xxxx a number if you do not want to start displaying from the fist images
Examples:
- without from display 10 images from the rss feed:
{rss uri=http://cedricwalter.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=4311718_bRCBj&format=rss200 limit=10}
- with from only starting at images 3, display 10 images from the rss feed :
{rss uri=http://cedricwalter.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=4311718_bRCBj&format=rss200 limit=10 from=3}
Examples
Picasa
Example: {rss uri=http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/base/user/115504007740680881345/albumid/5447801847496445393?alt=rss&kind=photo&hl=en_US limit=9}
http://support.google.com/picasa/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47351
Flickr
Example: {rss uri=http://api.flickr.com/services/feeds/photos_public.gne?id=45007589@N00&lang=en-us&format=rss_200 limit=12}
SmugMug
Example: {rss uri=http://cedricwalter.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=4311718_bRCBj&format=rss200 limit=5}
YouTube
Example: {rss uri=http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/joomla/uploads limit=9}
Installation
Install like any other module, using Joomla! installer
Here is how the process look like:
Rendering
For a better Appearance, i recommend you to install one of those library
Using a media viewer
- RokBox, [Download Rokbox]
- Lightbox [Search for a Lightbox extension at JED]
- Lightbox2, [Search for a Lightbox2 extension at JED]
- Shadowbox, [Search for a shadowbox extension at JED]
pure HTML rendering
If you select rendering = html a simple HTML layout where windows will be displayed in popup will be used.
I like RokBox a lot and recommend it, it is a free plugin
Rokbox: The Ultimate Javascript Powered Multimedia Box
RokBox, the successor of our popular RokZoom plugin, is a mootools powered JavaScript slideshow that allows you to quickly and easily display multiple media formats including images, videos (video sharing services also) and music. RokBox provides a theme system that allows you to create your own custom ones to fit your websites design. It includes two predefined themes, a Light theme and a Dark theme that will fit seemlessly into your site design. RokBox is as easy as pie to install and customize, providing an easy way to create your own custom themes for it.
Attention
Rendering plugin must be executed after photofeed, use plugin order of your plugin of choice (rokbox, lightbox2, etc...) to execute it after photofeed
Picture hosting
Smugmug
find the SmugMug feed URI. SmugMug provides several feeds for each user account. Go to the bottom of your gallery page and click on the Available Feeds link to see all of them. We’re going to use the Recent Photos Atom feed. In my case, it is:
At the bottom of your gallery,
- Click on A "Available Feeds"
- The B part will appear, click on RSS, and copy the url of your browser bar which MUST look like http://cedricwalter.smugmug.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=gallery&Data=4311718_bRCBj&format=rss200
Note concerning Gallery copy protected
You will have NO image displayed if you decide to limit the size of your images in "Gallery settings" and ask in the plugin for a larger image than the limit you have put in place!
In your smugmug gallery settings, under "Largest size", you can choose the largest size you'd like available. Basic and Power users can choose to display images only as big as SmugMug's XLarge size. Professional subscribers can choose to display images only as big as SmugMug's medium size. Want to display your photos big and beautiful but still keep them secure? Block originals, and use a watermark.
Example:
- you limit the largest size to L in your gallery settings
- you set the plugin to retrieve images form feed in size XL
-> this wont work for obvious reasons! either increase largest size or change PhotoFeed plugin settings to match your smugmug gallery settings
Rating
Do you like this extension? Rate it at Joomla! Extensions Directory
Download
Always use the latest version subscribe to the download RSS
Caching
RSS feed are cached in /cache/*.spc example of file: 368e0713520713facc7798c0568615dd.spc
HTML are cache in cache/plg_content_photofeed/*.php example of file: d22048fc81131d1032d29b6f08caf1ab-cache-plg_content_photofeed-494c11f12e7f0b6ee2f932616efb5ec9.php
You can safely empty the Joomla cache, or delete any of these files at any time to force a refresh
