Photo Gallery Templates

v1.0.4

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 22:02:45 -0800

Corrected text and link at end of paragraph on Comment Pending page that pointed to a CGI script revealing a default MT template. The link now points back to the Individual Photo page, since that's where comments are displayed and created.
Files affected: t_comment_pending.html

Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:53:40 -0800

Corrected position of <MTIfNotEmpty> conditional for tags in the Individual Photo template, so the "tags" list item element won't render if no Keywords exist for this photo.
Files affected: t_photo.php
Corrected Recent Comments and RSS: Recent Comments templates so link to the comment points to relevant Individual Photo page, and anchors to that comment.
Files affected: t_comments.php, t_comments.html, t_rss_comments.xml
Modified Favorites module on Gallery Index and template code for Favorites Gallery Page and Favorites Gallery Feed to prevent accidentally revealing images from any galleries marked as "hidden". Thanks to Kevin Story.
Files affected: all files prefixed with t_index_. Also: t_gallery.php, t_gallery.html, and t_rss_bygallery.xml
Modified RSS: Photos by Gallery template to prevent getting a Category '' not found error reported in comment#88. Thanks to Sujay.
Files affected t_rss_bygallery.xml
Various compatibility bug fixes to PHP function files (based on changes suggested in Comment#89). Thanks to Shawn.
Files affected: catorder.php and gallerylimits.php

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 17:31:58 -0800

Fixed a problem where part of "No comments yet" would squeeze up beside vertical (portrait) photos.
Files affected: photos.css

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 10:21:50 -0800

Public release of templates.
Swapped position of modules at bottom of Gallery Index page to be more balanced.
Files affected: any template file prefixed with t_index_
Fixed "Recently Updated Galleries" header on Gallery Index and "All Galleries" header on Gallery Archive. The header was getting chopped off in IE/Win after the page was scrolled. No longer happening.
Files affected: photos.css

Tue, 23 Aug 2005 23:15:41 -0800

Thu, 18 Aug 2005 19:11:31 -0800

Fixed issue with comments not working in IE because images were used for Preview and Submit buttons. 6A has been notified of this bug in IE which might be possible to account for in MT. Until MT is updated, regular HTML submit buttons need to be used for comment forms.
Completed bulk of documentation.

Fri, 12 Aug 2005 19:32:43 -0800

Pulled comments and the comment form onto the Individual Photo page.
Discovered a cool way to hide/show the comments with some unobtrusive JavaScript that avoids the flash of "visible content that gets hidden after the onload event".
Default state of comments is hidden. If visitor clicks on "Show", comments are displayed (toggled) under the photo, and a cookie is set to remember the preference from photo to photo. Likewise, if the visitor clicks "Hide", the same cookie is also set to remember the preference.
Hid the Comment Form with unobtrusive JavaScript as well. The form is only shown once a visitor clicks the "Add a Comment" button.
"Add a Comment" button is not visible if a photo has one or more comments and the comments are hidden. Button will only display once comments are shown, and will appear below existing comments. This is to prevent visitors from leaving comments without at least scanning the comments already given for that photo.
Good news. As of beta-4 of MT 3.2, Photon is working with MT again.

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:34:48 -0800

Added concept of "Favorites" to photo galleries. Any photo can be marked as a Favorite by selecting a "Favorites" category as the secondary category. Favorite photos also show up in a special Favorites gallery. All thumbnails in the Favorites gallery link to the Individual Photo page as it lives in its primary category (its main gallery). The Favorites gallery does not have its own Gallery Title page.
Added last 6 favorites to Gallery Index page.
Added small "Gallery Data" table to Gallery Index page that provides a convenient way to link to global pages and feeds for Recent Galleries, Photos, Comments, and Favorites. The table provides a quick summary of the total number of each of these items.
Began testing with the beta version of MT 3.2. Doesn't look good, as Photon isn't able to grab the list of categories for a given blog. Something may have changed in mt-xmlrpc.cgi with regards to Categories and how they're accessed. Sent a message to Jay Allen @ 6A about the possible problem.

Tue, 10 May 2005 19:36:12 -0800

Added page to track the last 15 Recent Comments from any non-hidden gallery.
Added RSS feed for Recent Comments that updates with the last 15 comments from any non-hidden gallery.

Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:36:58 -0800

Added RSS feed for Recent Galleries that updates with the latest 5 photos from the last 10 galleries.
Added RSS feed for Recent Photos that updates with the last 15 photos from any gallery.
RSS feeds exclude any galleries marked as "hidden".
With the idea that these templates might be released publicly, I realized that not everyone will have access to PHP on their server. Created MT templates for a non-PHP version that publish static HTML pages. Required simplifying a tiny bit, and eliminating a few features from the original PHP-enabled templates. The HTML version of the templates will be kept in sync with the PHP version as much as possible.
With the HTML-only version, the challenge was auto-obtaining the orientation of photos. Ended up using the Collect plugin to gather the <img> element's attributes, and the Compare plugin to compare the width and height values.
Eliminated popups for Comments. Comments remain on separate pages. But I'm using one window for all gallery browsing and comment functionality now.