X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/5c2f6cb8935f828274511ba5ca0d92b586632740..3a04e96389def78bcb873a4487b85f4d75653199:/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn diff --git a/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn b/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn index 40e9f6279..3d40b069d 100644 --- a/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn +++ b/doc/users/smcv/gallery.mdwn @@ -1,266 +1,4 @@ -[[!template id=plugin name=smcvgallery author="[[Simon_McVittie|smcv]]"]] -[[!tag type/chrome]] +This plugin has now been implemented as [[plugins/contrib/album]]. -This plugin has not yet been written; this page is an experiment in -design-by-documentation :-) - -## Requirements - -This plugin formats a collection of images into a photo gallery, -in the same way as many websites: good examples include the -PHP application [Gallery](http://gallery.menalto.com/), Flickr, -and Facebook's Photos "application". - -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 gallery, 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.) - -Other features that would be good to have: - -* minimizing the number of separate operations needed to make a gallery - - editing one source file per gallery is acceptable, editing one - source file per photo is not - -* keeping photos outside source code control, for instance in an - underlay - -* assigning [[tags|ikiwiki/directive/tag]] to photos, providing a - superset of Facebook's "show tagged photos of this person" functionality - -* constructing galleries entirely via the web by uploading attachments - -* inserting grouping (section headings) within a gallery; as in the example - linked above, I'd like this to split up the thumbnails but not the - next/previous trail - -* rendering an `/` arrangement to display videos, and possibly - thumbnailing them in the same way as totem-video-thumbnailer - (my camera can record short videos, so some of my web photo galleries contain - them) - -My plan is to have these directives: - -* \[[!gallery]] registers the page it's on as a gallery, and displays all photos - that are part of this gallery but not part of a \[[!gallerysection]] (below). - - All images (i.e. `*.png *.jpg *.gif`) that are attachments to the gallery page - or its subpages are considered to be part of the gallery. - - Optional arguments: - - * filter="[[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]": only consider images to be part of the - gallery if they also match this filter - - * sort="date|filename": order in which to sort the images - -* \[[!gallerysection filter="[[ikiwiki/PageSpec]]"]] displays all photos in the - gallery that match the filter - -So, [the gallery I'm using as an example](http://www.pseudorandom.co.uk/2008/2008-03-08-panic-cell-gig/) -could look something like this: - - \[[!gallery]] - - - # Gamarra - - \[[!gallerysection filter="link(sometag)"]] - - - # Smokescreen - - \[[!gallerysection filter="link(someothertag)"]] - - - - -## Implementation ideas - -The photo galleries I have at the moment, like the Panic Cell example above, -are made by using an external script to parse XML gallery descriptions (lists -of image filenames, with metadata such as titles), and using this to write IkiWiki -markup into a directory which is then used as an underlay. This is a hack, but it -works. The use of XML is left over from a previous attempt at solving the same -problem using Django. - -The next/previous part this plugin overlaps with [[todo/wikitrails]]. - -A \[[!galleryimg]] directive to assign metadata to images is probably necessary, so -the gallery page can contain something like: - - \[[!galleryimg p1010001.jpg title="..." caption="..." tags="foo"]] - \[[!galleryimg p1010002.jpg title="..." caption="..." tags="foo bar"]] - -Making the viewer pages could be rather tricky. - -One possibility is to write out the viewer pages as a side-effect of preprocessing -the \[[!gallery]] directive. The proof-of-concept implementation below does this. -However, this does mean the viewer pages can't have tags or metadata of their own -and can't be matched by [[pagespecs|ikiwiki/pagespec]] or -[[wikilinks|ikiwiki/wikilink]]. It might be possible to implement tagging by -using \[[!galleryimg]] to assign the metadata to the *images* instead of their -viewers, - -Another is to synthesize source pages for the viewers. This means they can have -tags and metadata, but trying to arrange for them to be scanned etc. correctly -without needing another refresh run is somewhat terrifying. -[[plugins/autoindex]] can safely create source pages because it runs in -the refresh hook, but I don't really like the idea of a refresh hook that scans -all source pages to see if they contain \[[!gallery]]... - -Making the image be the source page (and generate HTML itself) would be possible, -but I wouldn't want to generate a HTML viewer for every `.jpg` on a site, so -either the images would have to have a special extension (awkward for uploads from -Windows users) or the plugin would have to be able to change whether HTML was -generated in some way (not currently possible). - -## Proof-of-concept - - #!/usr/bin/perl - package IkiWiki::Plugin::gallery; - - use warnings; - use strict; - use IkiWiki 2.00; - - sub import { - hook(type => "getsetup", id => "gallery", call => \&getsetup); - hook(type => "checkconfig", id => "gallery", call => \&checkconfig); - hook(type => "preprocess", id => "gallery", - call => \&preprocess_gallery, scan => 1); - hook(type => "preprocess", id => "gallerysection", - call => \&preprocess_gallerysection, scan => 1); - hook(type => "preprocess", id => "galleryimg", - call => \&preprocess_galleryimg, scan => 1); - } - - sub getsetup () { - return - plugin => { - safe => 1, - rebuild => undef, - }, - } - - sub checkconfig () { - } - - # page that is a gallery => array of images - my %galleries; - # page that is a gallery => array of filters - my %sections; - # page that is an image => page name of generated "viewer" - my %viewers; - - sub preprocess_gallery { - # \[[!gallery filter="!*/cover.jpg"]] - my %params=@_; - - my $subpage = qr/^\Q$params{page}\E\//; - - my @images; - - foreach my $page (keys %pagesources) { - # Reject anything not a subpage or attachment of this page - next unless $page =~ $subpage; - - # Reject non-images - # FIXME: hard-coded list of extensions - next unless $page =~ /\.(jpg|gif|png|mov)$/; - - # Reject according to the filter, if any - next if (exists $params{filter} && - !pagespec_match($page, $params{filter}, - location => $params{page})); - - # OK, we'll have that one - push @images, $page; - - my $viewername = $page; - $viewername =~ s/\.[^.]+$//; - $viewers{$page} = $viewername; - - my $filename = htmlpage($viewername); - will_render($params{page}, $filename); - } - - $galleries{$params{page}} = \@images; - - # If we're just scanning, don't bother producing output - return unless defined wantarray; - - # actually render the viewers - foreach my $img (@images) { - my $filename = htmlpage($viewers{$img}); - debug("rendering image viewer $filename for $img"); - writefile($filename, $config{destdir}, "# placeholder"); - } - - # display a list of "loose" images (those that are in no section); - # this works because we collected the sections' filters during the - # scan stage - - my @loose = @images; - - foreach my $filter (@{$sections{$params{page}}}) { - my $_; - @loose = grep { !pagespec_match($_, $filter, - location => $params{page}) } @loose; - } - - my $_; - my $ret = "\n"; - } - - sub preprocess_gallerysection { - # \[[!gallerysection filter="friday/*"]] - my %params=@_; - - # remember the filter for this section so the "loose images" section - # won't include these images - push @{$sections{$params{page}}}, $params{filter}; - - # If we're just scanning, don't bother producing output - return unless defined wantarray; - - # this relies on the fact that we ran preprocess_gallery once - # already, during the scan stage - my @images = @{$galleries{$params{page}}}; - @images = grep { pagespec_match($_, $params{filter}, - location => $params{page}) } @images; - - my $_; - my $ret = "\n"; - } - - sub preprocess_galleryimg { - # \[[!galleryimg p1010001.jpg title="" caption="" tags=""]] - my $file = $_[0]; - my %params=@_; - - return ""; - } - - 1 +This page's history contains some older thoughts about it; +I've deleted them in an attempt to reduce confusion.