collective.gallery 1.0b1

Base gallery product for plone with picasa and flickr support by Makina Corpus

Notes: gdata 2.0.10 doesn’t work properly: http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/issues/detail?id=367#c1 please pin the version to 2.0.9

Introduction

Gallery is an add-on full of features with a design that make it easy to customize.

It is tested with: Plone 3.3.X and Plone 4

It use Galleriffic plugin with jquery.history embed in the package.

Goals

• Have a simple to customize gallery product for plone.

• Use very ligth weight resources

• Don’t embed display configuration inside data

Features

• No custom content type, only views

• Works with lots of photos (is developed to work with +300 photos)

• Ramcache setup with a default key to one hours + modification date

• Works with Folder, Topic and Link content types

• picasaweb and flickr support.

• I18N: english and french are available

• tested

picasaweb

• It’s free to use

• Web albums, synchronised with picasa software

• Share your albums

• Add geo-tags to your photos

• Automatically organize your photos based on the people in them

• Display in a slideshow (flash)

In Plone, just paste the share link provided by picasaweb inside a Link content type and display your link content with the view gallery available in the drop down display menu.

flickr

• It’s free to use

• Share your photos

• Upload and organize

• Add geo-tags to your photos

• Display in a slideshow (flash)

In Plone, just paste the share link provided by flickr inside a Link content type and display your link content with the view gallery available in the drop down display menu.

Galleriffic

• Smart image preloading after the page is loaded

• Thumbnail navigation (with pagination)

• jQuery.history plugin integration to support bookmark-friendly URLs per-image

• Slideshow (with optional auto-updating url bookmarks)

• Keyboard navigation

• Events that allow for adding your own custom transition effects

• API for controlling the gallery with custom controls

• Support for image captions

• Flexible configuration

• Graceful degradation when javascript is not available

• Support for multiple galleries per page

Components

collective.gallery use zope.components to provide as much reusable as possible components.

First we have photo resources. Plone already manage this for you:

• Folder and Large Plone Folder can contains Image

• Topic can be criterized to list only Image

• Link can be sources of photos throw picasaweb.google.com and flickr.com services.

Next you have the business component: IGallery. This interface is implemented at two levels:

• As named adapter over IATLink to get photos from picasaweb or flickr.

• As browserview to control the resource (@@gallery)

The picasaweb and flickr services let you embed a flash slideshow to display your photos. Views are already available to use those services:

• @@gallery-picasaweb-slideshow

• @@gallery-flickr-slideshow

But they are not integrated in the Plone UI.

Roadmap

• [1.0] finish the css

• [1.1] exif integration

• [2.0] add photos

• [2.0] search photos

• [2.0] collective.harlequin as an extra dependency

Credits

Companies

• Planet Makina Corpus

• Contact us

Authors

• JeanMichel FRANCOIS aka toutpt <[e-mail]>

Contributors

Changelog

1.0b1 - (2010/05/21)

• remove harlequin and z3cform integration (too soon) [toutpt]

• rename IImage to IPhoto and imgs() to photos() [toutpt]

• Add rebuild i18n script as usual [toutpt]

• Use collective.testcaselayer for tests [toutpt]

• Add interfaces IImage and IExif on results returned by every services [toutpt]

• Use jquery.galleriffic jquery plugin (example 1) [toutpt]

• Add flickr support [toupt]

• Add cache support with plone.memoize.ram [toutpt]

• Add picasa private album support on both slideshow and link browserview [toutpt]

• Add tests on picasa components [toutpt]

0.1.1 - 2009/12/29

• Add picasa slideshow flash gallery view on link content type [toutpt]

• Add integration tests [toutpt]

0.1 - 2009/12/28

• Initial release