Integrate flsh gallery into ezpublish

Next topic

Author	Message
Romeo Antony	Friday 10 September 2010 8:16:11 am Hi, Have anyone integrated flash gallery like polaroid into ezpublish. Jquery based gallery is Ok. But in flash based gallery image is loaded by an xml file. I do not have any idea where do I put xml file and how it works with tpl file since in template file, within javascript code is like this to load the xml file //<![CDATA[ var so = new SWFObject("polaroid.swf", "polaroid", "100%", "100%", "8", "#FFFFFF"); // specify the url to the xml-file, default is photos.xml so.addVariable("xmlURL","photos.xml"); so.write("fullscreendemo"); //]]> Isn't possible to include flash gallery , Not jquery based gallery. If it possible where do put xml file. Any one did this before. I have searched in the ezforum. But someo ne asked this question few years back .but no reply. Hope Someone going to help . Romeo
Gabriel Finkelstein	Monday 13 September 2010 10:42:14 am Is it a static or dynamic xml? If it's static, then upload the xml to your javascript folder and use so.addVariable("xmlURL",{"javascript/photos.xml"\|ezdesign}); If it is dynamic, create a new pagelayout_photos.tpl, generate the xml structure there, and create a new layout in layout.ini. And then use: so.addVariable("xmlURL",{"layout/set/photos/Uri/To/Photos"\|ezurl});
Romeo Antony	Monday 13 September 2010 2:59:51 pm Gabriel, thanks a for your reply . It is a static xml file. Following is the code for photos.xml <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <photos> <!-- Plase your photos here --> <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url="_pics/1.jpg" /> <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url="_pics/2.jpg" /> </photos> so I got u. in the above code pictures wll be loaded like <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url={"_pics/1.jpg" \|ezimage}/> <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url={"_pics/2.jpg"\|ezimage} /> It will be took from the image dir of design folder. Is that correct? Frankly I didn't get your second explanation about dynamic xml file. Gabriel ,can u plz give a line of code to understand will be helpfull Romeo.
Gabriel Finkelstein	Monday 13 September 2010 3:41:45 pm If you use {"_pics/1.jpg" \|ezimage}, then it's not static anymore. Static would be: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <photos> <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url="/design/mysite/images/_pics/1.jpg" /> <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url="/design/mysite/images/_pics/2.jpg" /> </photos> If you want to use the ezimage operator, then you must use the dynamic way (ie. use a template). What you have to do is go to layout.ini and add the following [photos] PageLayout=pagelayout_photos.tpl ContentType=text/xml Create a pagelayout_photos.tpl file in your template folder and put this in: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <photos> <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url={"_pics/1.jpg"\|ezimage} /> <photo desc="Picture is from stock.xchng" url={"_pics/2.jpg"\|ezimage} /> </photos> And when you call your xml, use: so.addVariable("xmlURL",{"layout/set/photos"\|ezurl});
Romeo Antony	Tuesday 14 September 2010 2:26:29 am Perfect.Thanks a lot for your detail reply Gabriel. I got you. after that just only need to put this javascript code in some a templte? in sometemplate.tpl <script type="text/javascript"> <literal> so.addVariable("xmlURL",{"layout/set/photos"\|ezurl}) </literal> </script> So when this template executes, it will take pagelayout_photos.tpl that contain ezimage types.
Gabriel Finkelstein	Tuesday 14 September 2010 10:17:03 am Actually, you'll have to use: <script type="text/javascript"> //<![CDATA[ var so = new SWFObject("polaroid.swf", "polaroid", "100%", "100%", "8", "#FFFFFF"); so.addVariable("xmlURL",{"layout/set/photos"\|ezurl}); so.write("fullscreendemo"); //]]> </script>
Romeo Antony	Thursday 16 September 2010 4:03:55 am Thanks a lot Gabriel. Great help.