X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/3a1087a2649d873d0089311c4397ca8fc607ad59..3abcb0f797753b0e486568047c78dcf45a2923ed:/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn diff --git a/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn b/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn index daf16fd3c..9fac11164 100644 --- a/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn +++ b/doc/plugins/contrib/album.mdwn @@ -1,141 +1,139 @@ [[!template id=plugin name=album author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] -[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/album author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] [[!tag type/chrome]] -Available from [[smcv]]'s git repository, in the `album` branch -([[users/smcv/gallery|users/smcv/gallery]] contains some older -thoughts about this plugin). +This plugin provides the [[ikiwiki/directive/album]] [[ikiwiki/directive]], +which turns a page into a photo album or image gallery, containing all +images attached to the album or its subpages. It also provides the +[[ikiwiki/directive/albumsection]] and [[ikiwiki/directive/albumimage]] +directives. -This plugin formats a collection of images into a photo album, -in the same way as many websites: good examples include the -PHP application [Gallery](http://gallery.menalto.com/), Flickr, -and Facebook's Photos "application". +This plugin automatically enables the [[filecheck]], [[img]], [[inline]], +[[trail]] and [[transient]] plugins. The [[meta]] plugin is also +recommended. +## Demo + +* [HTML page of thumbnails](http://ikialbum.hosted.pseudorandom.co.uk/album/) + as an entry point to the album +* Each thumbnail links to + [a "viewer" HTML page](http://ikialbum.hosted.pseudorandom.co.uk/album/img_0120/) + with a full size image, optional next/previous thumbnail links, and + optional [[plugins/comments]] + +### Altered Demo + +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=cbaines/album]] +This uses the album plugin, with some altered css, and with the css applied to +all of the themes. + +* [Simple album, rendered using mutiple themes](http://cbaines.net/projects/ikiwiki/album/dest/basic) + using the ikiwiki logo. + +## Installation + +[[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/album5 author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] + +Available from [[smcv]]'s git repository, in the `album5` branch. I've called it `album` to distinguish it from [[contrib/gallery|plugins/contrib/gallery]], although `gallery` might well be a better name for this functionality. -The web UI I'm trying to achieve consists of one -[HTML page of thumbnails](http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/2008-03-08-panic-cell-gig/) -as an entry point to the album, where each thumbnail links to -[a "viewer" HTML page](http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/2008-03-08-panic-cell-gig/img_0068/) -with a full size image, next/previous thumbnail links, and -[[plugins/comments]]. - (The Summer of Code [[plugins/contrib/gallery]] plugin does the next/previous UI in Javascript using Lightbox, which means that individual photos can't be bookmarked in a meaningful way, and the best it can do as a fallback for non-Javascript browsers is to provide a direct link to the image.) -

album directive

- -Each page containing an `album` directive is treated as a photo album. - -Every image attached to an album or its subpages is considered to be part of -the album. A "viewer" page, with the wiki's default page extension, will be -generated in the [[transient underlay|todo/transient_pages]] to display the -image, if there isn't already a page of the same name as the image: for -instance, if `debconf` is an album and `debconf/tuesday/p100.jpg` exists, -then `debconf/tuesday/p100.mdwn` might be created. +Updated, June 2014: integrated changes from [[KathrynAndersen]], +Lukas Lipavsky and kjs -There's currently a hard-coded list of extensions that are treated as images: -`png`, `gif`, `jpg`, `jpeg` or `mov` files. More image and video types could -be added in future. Videos aren't currently handled very well; -ideally, something like totem-video-thumbnailer would be used. +An `album6` branch is also available, but is less suitable +for manual installation since it needs core IkiWiki changes +(until [[bugs/trails depend on everything]] is fixed). -The `album` directive also produces an [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] which -automatically includes all the viewers for this album, except those that -will appear in an albumsection (if every image -is in a section, then the `album` directive won't have any visible effect). +### Manual installation -The `inline` is in `archive` and `quick` mode, but can include some -extra information about the images, including file size and a thumbnail made -using [[ikiwiki/directive/img]]). The default template is `albumitem.tmpl`, -which takes advantage of these things. +First, you need a version of ikiwiki with the [[trail]] plugin merged in +(version 3.20120203 or later). -

albumsection directive

+Manual installation requires these files (use the "raw" link in gitweb +to download): -The `albumsection` directive is used to split an album into sections. It can -only appear on a page that also has the album directive. +* [album.pm](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/IkiWiki/Plugin/album.pm) + in an `IkiWiki/Plugin` subdirectory of your configured `plugindir` +* [albumviewer.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumviewer.tmpl), + [albumitem.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumitem.tmpl), + [albumnext.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumnext.tmpl) and + [albumprev.tmpl](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/templates/albumprev.tmpl), + in your configured `templatedir`, or a `templates` subdirectory of your wiki repository +* the album-related bits from the end of the + [stylesheet](http://git.pseudorandom.co.uk/smcv/ikiwiki.git/blob/album5:/doc/style.css) + (put them in your local.css) -The `filter` parameter is a [[ikiwiki/PageSpec]] against which viewer pages -are matched. The `albumsection` directive displays all the images that match -the filter, and the `album` directive displays any leftover images, like -this: +## Changing the templates - # Holiday photos +When a viewer page is generated or inlined into an album, the template can +contain these extra variables: - \[[!album]] - +* `` - page name of the album +* `` - relative URL to the album +* `` - title of the album, usually taken from + a [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directive +* `` - caption for the image +* `` - a small [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] for the image +* `` - width of the full-size image in pixels +* `` - height of the full-size image in pixels +* `` - size of the image, e.g. `1.2 MiB` +* `` - format of the image, typically `JPEG` - ## People +The template for the viewer page can also contain: - \[[!albumsection filter="tagged(people)"]] - +* `` - a large [[ikiwiki/directive/img]] to display the image +* `` - a link to the previous viewer, typically with a + thumbnail +* `` - a link to the next viewer, typically with a + thumbnail - ## Landscapes +## Including album entries elsewhere - \[[!albumsection filter="tagged(landscapes)"]] - +To display images from elsewhere in the wiki with the same appearance as +an [[ikiwiki/directive/album]] or [[ikiwiki/directive/albumsection]], +you can use an [[ikiwiki/directive/inline]] with the `albumitem` +template: -

albumimage directive

+ \[[!inline pages="..." sort="-age" template="albumitem"]] -Each viewer page produced by the album directive -contains an `albumimage` directive, which is replaced by an -[[ikiwiki/directive/img]], wrapped in some formatting using a -template (by default it's `albumviewer.tmpl`). That template can also include -links to the next photo, the previous photo and the album it's in; the default -template has all of these. - -The next/previous links are themselves implemented by evaluating a template, -either `albumnext.tmpl` or `albumprev.tmpl` by default. - -The directive can also have parameters: - -* `title`, `copyright` and `date` are short-cuts for the corresponding - [[ikiwiki/directive/meta]] directives +## Bugs -* `caption` sets a caption which is displayed in the album and viewer - pages +* There's currently a hard-coded list of extensions that are treated as + images: `png`, `gif`, `jpg`, `jpeg` or `mov` files. More image and video + types could be added in future. -The viewer page can also have other contents before or after the actual -image viewer. - -## Bugs +* Videos aren't currently handled very well; ideally, something like + totem-video-thumbnailer would be used. * The plugin doesn't do anything special to handle albums that are subpages of each other. If, say, `debconf` and `debconf/monday` are both albums, then `debconf/monday/p100.jpg` will currently be assigned to one or the - other, arbitrarily. + other, arbitrarily. It should probably pick the closest (longest) album name. + (I'm not sure that it can do this reliably, though, since the scan stage + runs in an undefined order.) * The plugin doesn't do anything special to handle photos with similar names. If you have `p100.jpg` and `p100.png`, one will get a viewer page called - `p100` and the other will be ignored. + `p100` and the other will be ignored. (I'm not sure what we could do better, + though.) * If there's no `albumimage` in a viewer page, one should probably be appended automatically. ## TODO -* The documentation should mention how to replicate the appearance of - `album` and `albumsection` using an `inline` of viewer pages. - -* The documentation should mention all the template variables and - all the parameters. - -* The generated viewer page should include most or all of the possible - parameters to the `albumimage` directive, with empty values, as a - template for editing. - * The generated viewer page should extract as much metadata as possible from the photo's EXIF tags (creation/modification dates, author, title, caption, - copyright). [[smcv]] has a half-written implementation which runs - `scanimage` hooks, and has an `exiftool` plugin using [[!cpan Image::ExifTool]] - as a reference implementation of that hook. + copyright). [[smcv]] once had a half-written implementation which runs + `scanimage` hooks, and an `exiftool` plugin using [[!cpan Image::ExifTool]] + as a reference implementation of that hook, but has lost that code somewhere :-( * There should be an option to reduce the size of photos and write them into an underlay (perhaps just the transient underlay), for this workflow: