Hi all,

First of all, just started using zenphoto on my web site and I'm very happy with it, it's exactly what I needed, great stuff!

However, what I've been trying to find for a while is a really high quality full-screen slideshow. The flow-player based one didn't really jingle my bells so I've written a new flash based slideshow plugin (I've called it slideshow_flash).

See Example photos - click View Slideshow for an example.

If anyone would like to use this then all the files you need are available in the "ZenphotoPlugin" folder at:

ZenphotoPlugin slideshow_flash files

The full code is available (GPL licenced as I've based some small parts on existing stuff from zenphoto) at http://www.deltawebdev.co.uk/websvn/listing.php?repname=FullScreenSlideshow

I didn't implement anything for search-based albums as I didn't really understand them! I imagine someone who did could easily add in support for them though. This is the first Flash / ActionScript3 development I've done so if it's all terrible, go easy on me!

Hope this is useful for others - I made it for my own uses but if others get usage out of it then that's great. Any comments or suggestions for improvement are welcomed.

Mark

I've put together zips of the required files to install and the source code for anyone interested.

Zenphoto slideshow_flash plugin

Thanks, every plugin is welcome. We will add it our extensions page soon.

Thanks for putting up the link on the extensions page - I've updated the web page with a better description etc now, which might be better than the description from the above post for the extensions page?

Updated web page

The download, source, etc are all linked to from that one page now.

I'm hoping to add some screenshots and tidy the page up a bit over the weekend, if I get chance. It's a bit, erm, simplistic right now!

Thanks for the update, a project page is better (simplistic look, no, I would say classic..:-)). I have updated the plugin entr. A suggestion you maybe could add what Flash version actually is required.

I will work that out and put it on the page!

I suspect it should work with Flash 9 but as this is my first attempt at any flash development (I'm a C#/.net developer by trade, for my sins) I'll first have to find out how to find out what version is needed before I can confirm that...

Thanks for updating the plugin page.

Thanks for creating this plugin! It works great, and allowed me to close my Smugmug account .

I did find one problem - I was getting an error out of line 102 of the function 'printSlideShowFlashLink' in the slideshow_flash.php file in the plugins folder, when you invoke it to display the 'View Slideshow' link on an image or album page. The problem is on line 68 of that file - variable name '$slideshow_instance' needs to be changed to '$slideshow_flash_instance'.

Cheers,

fns

Hi fns, I didn't notice that one, didn't seem to affect the way I was using it but it's fixed now in the latest version. Please try it out and let me know if it's still causing a problem.

http://www.deltawebdev.co.uk/projects/zenphotoSlideshowFlash/

Other fixes in the latest version:

1) When you select "View Slideshow" from an image page, the slideshow now starts from that image instead of the first image in the album.

2) When you select "Next" or "Previous" the slideshow stops playing and goes into Pause mode.

3) If a slide hasn't yet loaded into the cache when the next/prev button is pushed, or if the slide hasn't loaded at the time it is required to be displayed, a "Loading..." message is displayed.

You should just be able to drop-deploy this on top of the previous version.

Hi.

I installed your plugin, which works pretty well, but was getting undefined notices at line 124 in slideshow_flash.php, so edited the line from:

if ($_GET["slideStartInd"] != null )

to

if (isset($_GET["slideStartInd"]) && $_GET["slideStartInd"] != null )

which simply checks for the value before testing on it.

Also, it would be nice(r) if there were some sort of "exit" button in the full-screen mode, which non-intuitive types will sure appreciate when they decide they want to "go back" and are left fumbling for the browser's back button.

Thanks for the plugin!

Thanks for the fix, I've added it in and updated the zip. Not sure why but it didn't cause any problems on my install. Such is the vagueries of the different versions of PHP, no doubt.

When you say "full-screen" mode, do you mean the browser-filling mode or the actual full full screen mode? If you're referring to the full full-screen mode, clicking the Full Screen button again (left-most button) will exit back to the browser-filling mode...

If you're meaning to exit from the browser-filling mode, I'll have a look into that and see if I can work out some easy way to have a button which will return to wherever you came from. I'm sure it's possible, will just have to cajole flash into doing it for me!

m.

I have installed the full screen viewer and it works well with albums but not with sub-albums. Also where I have flash videos in one of the albums, there does not seem to be an option to play the videos, either in full screen or original size. I have had to temporarily disable the plug-in and return to the default image size for the slideshow.

Is there an easy solution?

Hi Bohdan,

I'm not sure how to include the photos in a sub-album in with the higher level album, I'll have a look and see if there's an easy way of doing that - imagine that that would be easy enough to do.

The plugin currently doesn't support video in any form, and I won't be adding support for that myself any time soon as I don't use video on my site and don't have the time to investigate it right now, however all of the source code for the plugin (both flash and PHP parts) is available on the site, so if anyone is able to and wants to add that in, I'm happy to include it in a future release.

m.

Thank you. You have done a great job with what there is at the moment. Hopefully others will be able to pick up where you have left off and extend the plugin to cover full screen video, or at least to enable some sort of switch back to the normal video format plugin while still being able to view photos in full screen mode using your plugin.

If I get a chance, I'll have a look into it on the off-chance that it is actually really easy! I suspect it won't be, but it's worth a look into. No promises, but if I get time I'll look.

Hi Mr. Sheep,

I'm using your plugin and really happy with it.. Thank you..

There is one issue for your information.
The caption show image description with their html tag..
I really hope there is a way to get rid of those tag..
Or maybe can it show the image title instead of description?..

Below is the screenshot for better understanding..
http://i253.photobucket.com/albums/hh48/firdauzm/slideshow_flash.jpg

Hi firdauzm,

Glad you're happy with the plug-in.

Can you give this version a go?

Test version

The only file that has changed is slideshow_flash.php, so if you take that out of the zip file and put it in your zenphoto install (replacing zp-core/plugins/slideshow_flash.php) then that should do it.

Let me know if that does the trick for you!

Thanks,
Mark

Hi mr.sheep. I've found a small bug that I hope you can resolve.

First of all, I love the plugin. It works great and it gives a very good impression for my website.

One bug I noticed is that if the directory name contains "&" sign, the slideshow is not recognizing the directory name. It is only taking the first part of the name and since a folder doesn't exist as such, it reports as error. This is not an issue with spaces. Only one I encountered this issue is with "&" sign which I've used on quite a few of my album names.

Hope you can provide a fix.

Hi plague,

Glad you like the plugin!

I'll have a look into that problem. Just to confirm, are you using the latest version (v1.1.2)?

Thanks,
Mark

Hi again,

I've found and fixed the bug with this; there's a new version available on the website now (v1.1.3). The only file you need to deploy is /plugin/slideshow_flash.php from the zip file to zp-core/plugins/ in your zenphoto install, there should be no other changes.

Please give it a try and let me know how it goes!

Thanks,
Mark

This is a great plugin! Thanks.

I tweaked the HTML in your slideshow_flash.php page to include a back button. This brings back users to the page they came from instead of having them fumble for the back button. Here is the code:

`
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title><?php echo getBareGalleryTitle()." > ".getBareAlbumTitle(); ?> - Slideshow</title>
<?php //zenJavascript(); ?>
<?php printSlideShowFlashJS(); ?>
<?php printSlideShowFlash(); ?>
<style>
html, body { height:98%; }
body { margin:0;background:#000;}
</style>
</head>
<body>

FullScreenSlideshow
Alternative content

[Image: http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/downl...player.gif]


[align=center]<input type=button value="Back to Page" onClick="history.go(-1)">[/align]

</body>
</html>
`