From be47e501c32cec7660129f430a4f93ee7fe8d3ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:19:49 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] reply to potential album user --- doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 46 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn index ee3aa6ce4..7a3c19cf6 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/album/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,7 +1,53 @@ 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]]