OK I am close to wits end with gallery extensions and my typo3 install. I currently use jm website gallery version .70 to create a gallery based on digital images uploaded to a mounted directory outside of fileadmin. (see here)

We have quite a few image and jm gallery creates copies for thumbnails and mid- size version eating up valuable disk space. So I have been look for an alternate that would

1. Read images from existing directory (outside fileadmin) and create gallery
2. Use imagemagick to resize dynamically instead of creating additional images
3. Support sub categories

Additional things that would be nice support for new item like smooth gallery and display of random images for a gallery.

Anyone have a working gallery with these features?

I have tried most smooth gallery. BAHAG, WT, photobook and several others but have not been able to configure them to work as desired. I have not been able to get any version of jm website gallery about .70 to work on my install and it look like develop of this has been stopped.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

Andre,
I haven't worked with the gallery extension much so I don't have a lot of feedback for you. I will throw in 2 comments though...


You'll end up with additional images even if ImageMagick is involved. I'm not sure how jmgallery works, but anytime TYPO3 uses ImageMagick to resize an image, it sticks a copy in typo3temp so that the copy can be used in the future. Scaling images takes quite a bit of server time, so its usually a better option to just read a copy thats already been scaled than it is to scale the image every time someone requests it.

From what I've heard from other users, rgsmoothgallery seems to be the most popular and most actively developed gallery extension these days.

Thanks,
jeff

Jeff, DO those images ever get cleared or are they there forever?

I have been trying to get smooth gallery working but first problem is that it won't read directories outside fileadmin

The images stick around forever. You can safely delete anything in typo3temp, however, and it will be regenerated when it is needed.

In my ongoing battle to get a working gallery (that is still in development) on our site I downloaded the latest WEC full server package because it now includes smooth gallery. However when I try yo view the photos page I encounter the same problem I have running smooth gallery on my web site. I get the back container box with hhe progress bar, thumbnail labels and picture captions but no images. Has anyone else tried the gallery in the new package and got it working?

I looked at it on 2 different computers running windows xp sp2

Thanks in advance for the help

Andre

Andre,

In my experience, when images did not display it was caused when ImageMagick was not working in TYPO3. Do you know that your install includes ImageMagick and do you know that it is processing images correctly?

In Him,
Mark

Mark,
I've got imagemagick working elsewhere and I'm using the preconfigured imagemagick that comes with the wec web server package on my desktop so I thought it might be something about the way my system or browser was configured. But I just installed another new gallery and imagemagik works with that. So i can't for the life of me figure out what is going on.

Andre

Andre,

Maybe these two new How-Tos can help:

Install Smooth Gallery

Configure Smooth Gallery

In Him,
Mark

Mark,
Unfortunately that did not help. I have the extension setup exactly as suggested but still no change. I can see the files being loaded in the status bar but they never get displayed.

Andre

Andre,

I know someone mentioned that there can be a conflict with different Javascript libraries. Maybe someone who reads this knows more. If you have other extensions on the page, maybe try running this on its own page without anything else, especially extensions that might do web 2.0 kinds of things.

In Him,
Mark