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

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

Changelog