If you are looking for suggestions it would be to link the photo to a template page instead of showing the full image in a plain browser window. Other than that, nice job.

Steve

That directory is a folder with lots of pics in it that i'm just using to test things out. Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

It would be nice to make the filename format configurable in some way - my Digital Camera program uses the JPEG EXIF information to name the files, but I can only choose YYYY_MMDD or YYMMDD.

Would be nice if you could specify a dateformat= attribute, even if it was just a number of different fixed formats.

Excellent plugin as it is, though!

i`m pretty new in MT - just set it up 3 days ago. and may a little too stupid. build in your plugin, created a new index template on [http://blog.cssondemand.de], linked this template to [http://blog.cssondemand.de/fotos.html], copied some of your examples into the template, rebuild and nothing happend. May you can help?

Of course, I'm not sure if I'm the only one that does thumbnails by hand, but I like having control over how a thumbnail is created.

Is there a way your plugin can provide me with one or two random images from a specfic directory?

I have already figured out the directory stuff, along with the random sorting, I think, but how can i limit it to one or two image?

I believe someone asked about the 'lastn', I tried it with no luck. Do you have any ideas?

Small bug report, I found that on 0.56 using sort_order="random" you may end up with a link to a file that was skipped. Changing line 104 from

push( @sortedfiles, $allfiles[rand @usefiles] );

to

push( @sortedfiles, $usefiles[rand @usefiles] );

should work.

However, if MTPhotoGalleryImagePath would present the "folder" Path (without the filename appended), then it would greatly expand the capability of PhotoGallery to create templates that can include both thumbnail and a link to the full image directly.

Of course, I'm not sure whether that would break the plugin's capability to work with MTEmbedImage or other plugins...

I had to rollback to version 0.56 though because 0.58 seems to have broken my galleries... After installing 0.58, my thumbnails aren't getting generated. I saw a note in your version section that some sort of backward compatibility, could you explain this a little further so that I can get the current version working?

-Sonny

Also is it possible to group images under one common date?

Is there any way to make it a direct file path or allow the relative paths to go farther?

Thanks anyway. ;-)

Anyhow, had a question of my own. When looking at Example #5 above I notice:

<MTEmbedImage basename="[MTPhotoGalleryImagePath]/[MTPhotoGalleryImageFileName]" width="150" thumbsuffix="-THUMB">

Is there a reason for the square brackets? Should they not be greater than and less than symbols? Were you doing this to show that you could use either of these two tags? Why is it that I cannot get this code to work anyhow!?

Secondly I was wondering if there are any future plans to add something of a MTPhotoGalleryImageWidth or MTPhotoGalleryImageHeight tag. I'd like to be able to open the images up in an autosized popup window, and unfortunately can't do it correctly right now... Unless of course anyone has any ideas (I'd like to not use an extra plugins if possible, but I will if I have to.)

Any way to do that ?
Thanks for your great work :)

BTW ... thanks for the efforts.

The square brackets is just something a bunch of different MT plugin authors started supporting to solve this type of problem. I adopted it b/c I needed the functionality myself. If you don't like it, there is another alternative, the TagInvoke plugin.

http://mt-plugins.org/archives/entry/taginvoke.php

Just one question though ... When the full size image opens up in the showimage.html file, is there any way of including that particular image title as per the thumbnails?

But I'm having this problem with gallery. I'm using it for my category archives. I don't know why but MTPhotoGallery repeats itself according to the number of photos I have. See here: http://odds-and-ends.net/redesign/archives/landscape/index.html

Could you help me out? Thanks!

So how do I make this work?

I have installed you plugin. But I got the following error message when rebuilding my page.
"Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at plugins/PhotoGallery.pl line 240.". Any idea how to solve this?

Cheers,
Onno

Since I am pretty clueless about MT plugins, I started with the most simple one of your examples by replacing my index template and get the following error message:
Smarty error: [in mt:1 line 24]: syntax error: unrecognized tag 'MTPhotoGallery' (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 556)

Is there may be something I missed in my setup that I should have done?

Thanks
Jever98

Cheers
Jever98

Can't locate bradchoate/embedimage.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ./extlib ./lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at plugins/embedimage.pl line 37.

Any suggestions would be very much appreciated. Thanks a lot!

So, for example, if my current MTEntryTitle is Benches then the image to load would be /images/benches.jpg.

However, this does not seem to be working. At the moment, what gets churned up for the path of the image is http://websitename.com/.jpg so I'm not sure if I'm integrating the MT Tags correctly. Some help on this would be appreciated. Thanks.

ty

there is a way to usemy image server?

Thanks very much for your work on this plugin. It seems like something I'd like to use on my site, but I don't understand any of the directions.

Are there directions in more simplified English on how to use the plugin? I feel like everybody understands CSS, PHP and MySQL - except me!

Keep up the good work!

How do i change the extension="" to include part of an image name i.e. image1-large.jpg, so the extension="-large.jpg"? Hoping to do "include just this image".

Thanks

I get the same error with the latest version though. When I try to post an entry or when I rebuild, I get:

Build error in template 'Mainindex': Error in tag: Error in tag: Error in tag: Reading '/home/spyweb1/spy1u1171/html/test/test/bug.jpg' failed: Reading file '/home/spyweb1/spy1u1171/html/test/test/bug.jpg' failed: Exception 395: UnableToOpenConfigureFile `'

When I use a previous version (version 1.1.0.0 published on August 18, 2004), it all rebuilds, except for 1 image. I get this error instead:

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at plugins/PhotoGallery.pl line 358.

From n images, I always get n-1 in my gallery.

Thanks in advance for your advice regarding this issue!

What 's even more strange; when I add a new entry with a small gallery, the previous entry gets all its images! So it 's only the last gallery I added, which has n-1 images. The image that gets ignored is always the first in the list.

I 'm still using v.1.1.0.0 as I can't make the last version work (see error above).

You can see mine at:
http://brandon.fuller.name/photos/2005/

how do i use exclude attribute to include my thumbnails (t_filename.jpg) and exclude original pictures (blabla.jpg)

However there remains a question, I want to use my original photos for a sidebar showing the latest additions to my site, but I don't want the smaller images, which show up in the main blog, also showing up as thumbnail of the thumbnail.

In other words how can I use 2 terms in the exclude= tag?
I.e. I want to exclude both "-thumb" and "-128"

seriously nice plugin. it has saved me so much time. my only question is about the formatting of other mt tags in the mtphotogallery tag. i want to do something like this:
"> but it throws an error, or i get ALL the image on my server. could you explain how to use this arg=[MTtag] in this context? how do the double quotes resolve? any help would be much appreciated.

thanks! nice work!

peter