Beiträge von dan40

Zitat von Elfangor93

This is exactly what we are going to do for JoomGallery 4.

I love it!

Zitat von Elfangor93

Have you seen that there is the possibility to use Joomlas SmartSearch for searching images since JG 3.6?

With Smartsearch you can even search with multiple search words to make the search more specific. Especially useful for huge image galleries...

I think I saw something in the recent past about that, but I'm not sure how that would work for me. For images with no descriptions, that wouldn't be useful anyway, I'd still have to touch/edit each image individually.

What I would really like to see is the ability to add multiple tags to an image, for example, like #sunset, #cloudy, #clear, #night, #moon, #stars, #landscape, basically every tag one could think of to describe the conditions around a sunset, and then have the search look for the tags instead of or in addition to what's in the description. But I am no expert on programming, so I guess it will be quite awhile before we see integrated image tagging.

Hi Elfangor93, thanks for the detailed explanation and possible resolution to my problem.

Given all the effort you took and research you did to respond to my question I kind of fixed this on my own after fiddling with Joomla permissions.

What I did was create a new Joomla user and gave it admin privileges and removed "Delete" from the user ID Permissions and set the user ID so that it can only log on to the Frontend and not the back end like I can, so therefore the only thing the new user can do is logon to the Frontend and there is no danger of anyone deleting my categories and images.

When I logged on as the user, I went to the detail view of several images and there is an "Edit Image" icon but no "Delete" icon, excactly what I needed in the scenario I was thinking about.

If I can find a successful candidate or prospect to help me with this monumental task, I'll share the ID and password with the user. This might not be a very secure way of doing this as the user will easily be able to give the user ID and password to someone else and potentially flood my descriptions with spam, but at least if it's a legitimate user that I get to help me with this then I won't have to do it all myself. Or, what I could do is open up registrations and have the user create his own account, then do the same thing for his ID that I did for the one I created, that way, the person is less likely to share the password for his own account. Plus, if the user ends up spamming my site then I can just delete the ID and close registrations, no questions asked and no (further) harm done.

I won't have descriptions showing under the image, only key words in the description can be searched, like if a person looks for the word "sunset" in the search bar all the images containing a sunset will be shown but they will not see the description under the image. I'm a fan of not having too much clutter on my gallery pages so for me it'll be good to hide the descriptions, and only enable them when I want to see what descriptions have been left by my helper, and then turn them off again if I think they are fairly accurate descriptions or key words.

Thanks again, I appreciate your time and effort in helping me with my issue.

Dan

Hi, I want to start a non-paying job for someone to start entering contextual descriptions on all of my images. I have way too many to do myself and it would take me years to add descriptions to 43,000 images. In the past couple of days I've been entering descriptions like crazy, and opened my Search function so that a person looking for any one tag or word that is in the description shows the corresponding image(s). That works well enough. I've been doing a lot of research and testing how I think it might be done, and it can't be done just by giving someone "manager" or "editor" access in Joomla. I have to give them Full Admin control, same as me so they have access to the Joomgallery component, in order for them to be able to get into each image (either in the front end or back end) so they can start editing. That gives them control to delete all of my images and categories and I'm just not ready to have someone I don't really know start willy-nilly deleting everything. I need someone I can trust.

How do I restrict someone from deleting my entire library and ONLY allow them to enter desciptions for each image in the Joomgallery component? I checked Joomla permissions and found out I would need to give them the same access I have in order to do this, something I hoped I could have avoided. Is there a way to do this? Maybe allow them to log in on the Front end and click the Edit button under each image, or allow them to log on to the back end (which I know how to grant) and not have them ruin my entire image collection?

This is all very frustrating. Thanks to anyone who can help.

On the Upload screen, it asks for a "Generic Description". Can that be turned off, as I do not use descriptions for my images. Or can the box be resized? Where is that in the template.css file?

Zitat von MrMusic

the size of the input box is determined by the respective template and not by JoomGallery.

I knew that already.

Zitat

input, textarea, .uneditable-input {
width: 206px;
}

Worked beautifully, thank you!

Dan

I'm using the latest version of JoomGallery and imagemagick for my image processor, and recently tried to add two .webp images and although it processed the image, it could not produce the thumbnail or original image. I see though, that your team has been working on this but still comes up as a broken image. How can I get .webp images to show up?

I'm using the built-in Joomla template Protostar, and this has always bothered me and I don't know how to fix it. How can I extend the width of the Comments box on the Details page for an image?

I just had a bright idea. Why not just use Description and not use Keywords?

The keywords/tags are saved in a field in the Metadata section for each image in plain text (as far as I know). I had these keywords in the Keywords field as noted below, and copied each of those to the Description field in the Metadata. When re-uploaded the image and did a search for any of those keywords in the description, the results came back normally.

Here's a link to the image detail page:

Photos - Category: Walt Disney World, August 1984 - Image: 26 (dansmith.ca)

If you do a search for any of the keywords above, the image will show up.

Could a subsequent version of JoomGallery allow searching the Keywords metadata?

I'm using Adobe Bridge to add Keywords (tags) to all my files. What this does is adds the keywords to the meta information. The search was working when I first uploaded the images to the albums, but have since stopped working. After I add all the necessary keywords in Bridge, then delete the image from the album and re-upload the image, and then do a Search for the keyword, no resulting images appear. It works with some, but not others.

Search results based on image tags seems to be inconsistent. I should be able to search for any of the highlighted keywords in the image below and have results appear. If I search for "Castle" in this case, it should show this image along with any other images that contain the keyword "Castle". Am I doing something wrong?

Edit: How does the "Use Image Metadata" tab work? Aren't the results searchable?

Thanks very much for your timely responses. Much appreciated. I'll just use Highslide JS for my image pop-up handler going forward, until a new version of the others is released.

Thanks for that, I've just installed and enabled Fancybox and Shadowbox and went to view an image, and both of these plugins exhibit the same behaviour. Can the code in Joomgallery be adjusted so that it doesn't do this? I only viewed the centre image.

The attached example shows what's happening with Shadowbox.

EDIT: Highslide JS, DHTML Container, JavaScript Window and Thickbox 3 do not do this. Lightbox 2, Shadowbox, Slimbox and Prettyphoto do. Fancybox, when I click on an image, marks that image, the next one and the third images as viewed.

Hi there, thanks for the quick reply. I am not using any overrides, except for changing the word "Hits" to "Views". It's a brand new Joomla/JoomGallery install (yesterday).

When I view one image, as long as there is an image before it and after it, Joomgallery marks all three images as viewed.

You can see what I mean if you select any image from any of my galleries at https://disney.dansmith.ca. Go to the Album view and select any page, then click on an image and then click on the detail view. The image will open in a Slimbox window. Then go back to the page view and look at the number of hits (views) below each image. Each image will show it had '1' view, even though I only viewed the middle image, therefore causing inaccurate viewing statistics.

This has been an ongoing problem with many prior versions and I believe is a bug that I'm hoping can be fixed in subsequent versions.

Is anyone aware of this? I posted on this very issue a few years ago and I don't think got a definitive response on if/when it was going to be fixed, or even acknowledgement that it was an issue.

I love Joomgallery... I've got several websites going with a lot of images! Many thanks for your consideration!

Now I have another problem. Animated GIF files are failing to upload.

Here's what it says:

An error has occurred.

0 GifCreator: v1.0.0: You have to give resource image variables, image URL or image binary sources in $frames array. ()

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I'm not sure what this is all about. All this since upgrading to PHP 8.0

That doesn't really do much for Imagemagick, if I wanted to stop using GD2 and use that instead. All of my image uploads with Imagemagick are like that.

Ok, wait, I think it's working now. In PHP.ini (for 8.0), in the [Extensions] area, it had extension=php_gd2.dll. I just changed that to php_gd.dll and reloaded IIS, and it seems to be working fine now.

Sorry for the scare!

Ok, ImageMagick gives me this:

g85001.jpg 237.9kB No file has been uploaded!

___Debug___

Filename: g85001.jpg

Upload complete (File-Size: 237.89 KB)

Resizing to height using ImageMagick...

ERROR: Server problem. The following statement could not be executed in the php code: 'exec(convert -strip -resize "133x99" -quality "100" -unsharp "3.5x1.2+1.0+0.10" "J:\gallery\images\joomgallery\originals\gallery_85_2\g85001_20210617_1630637610.jpg" "J:\gallery\images\joomgallery\thumbnails\gallery_85_2\g85001_20210617_1630637610.jpg");'

Error creating thumbnail 'J:\gallery\images\joomgallery\thumbnails\gallery_85_2\g85001_20210617_1630637610.jpg'

Rollback: Deletion of original image successful

Not sure what to do now.

Hi, I just upgraded to PHP 8.0 and can't upload any images to my gallery because GD2 no longer works. In v8.0, PHP Has renamed the extension file to simply, "php_gd.dll". I tried switching the image processor back to GD, but JoomGallery thinks that's GD1 and that doesn't work anymore either. Now I think I need to get ImageMagick installed if I can't use GD2 anymore.

Will there be a patch or a fix for this soon?