Rockettheme Supported Photo Galleries?
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- Pako
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Greetings! I have to say, so far I am loving the Rocket Themes that are being produced. With each new theme, I am seeing better module support, backend support with more options using Gantry and easier implementation of custom elements within the theme.
With that said, I am in need of a 'good' photo gallery. I have settled on Phoca Gallery as it has all the features that my clients can use. The biggest drawback is that I have issues with some of the features when implemented into a Rocket Theme. I have tried two theme's from this year, and both are having the same compatibility issues on IE7 and lower, that actually cause the browser to lock up, CPU revs up and stays there. No lock up issues, however, in IE8, FF, Chrome, ect, although I still have some layout issues that are only evident when the gallery is implemented in a Rocket Theme. Oddly enough, when Phoca Gallery is implemented on a standard Joomla theme, it works without flaw.
I need some serious help here. I have two pending sites in need of front end utilities for my clients. Editing quasi code is not an option. It has to be a turn key solution, and Phoca seems to meet all those requirements.
In light of that, I have tried to find and inquire solutions that will address these issues, but I am at an end-pass, and quite frankly am getting exhausted and combing for a solution. I have not given up, but am hopeful that I can find a solution with your help.
I know that Rocket Theme uses JS and came across this article on the Phoca Forums that solved another known issue:
If some other extension (e.g. module) adds some javascript code to your site, try to change the following code:
FROM:
<script type="text/javascript" >
TO:
<script type="text/javascript" defer="defer">
in the source code of this extension. It means the defer tag should be added into javascript tag.
Does this apply here? If so, can you help me identify where this might be coming from?
Here is a link to the site: www.lapierart.com/index.php?option=com_p...tegory&id=2&Itemid=5
I thank you in advance for any help in this matter.
I will note, if Phoca Gallery is not a good marriage with Rocket Themes, I am happy to spend my time elsewhere, I just haven't found a image Gallery that integrates with Joomla without a bridge and offers a owner's front end simplicity that Phoca Gallery does.
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- Pako
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Never mind. It has been almost a week since my original Kinetic template question was posted here, with not a single response yet. I found an alternative to using the JAK popup. Using Slimbox, and editing the default.php code, I can get the image name and description to show up on the slimbox instead of JAK, and it isn't conflicting with the Rocket Theme.
It is not a solution for the JAK popup, but it's seem to work nicely with the slimbox popup where you need additional information upon viewing the larger image.
Here is an excerpt from a reply on the Phoca Gallery forum:If you use the Modal Popup (I think this is default), the description display is a configuration parameter option, and it will display when the image popup is displayed - but not during the slideshow.
If you use Slimbox, the javascript library uses the anchor tag details to populate its arrays for the image popup and slideshow displays; if you edit the anchor tag output for your images, the changes will appear in your overlay window.
You can accomplish this in /components/com_phocagallery/views/category/tmpl/default.php.
The original file includes (near line 120):
echo '<a class="'.$value->button->methodname.'"'; if ($value->type == 2) { if ($value->overlib == 0) { echo ' title="'. $value->title.'"'; } } echo ' href="'. $value->link.'"';
Manually appending the image description to the image title text in the title attribute of the anchor tag will affect the Slimbox display. Something like this works for me:
echo '<a class="'.$value->button->methodname.'"'; if ($value->type == 2) { if ($value->overlib == 0) { echo ' title="'. $value->title.' - '.strip_tags($value->description).'"'; } } echo ' href="'. $value->link.'"';
Make sure you strip the tags, the description value that is stored includes html tags that will ruin your display. Also note that I did not test this extensively. It shouldn't cause issues for non-Slimbox overlay windows, but I can not guarantee that.
Hope this helps - good luck.
There are a couple Phoca parameters that need to be adjusted after this code is edited. These can be made in the "Global" parameter settings within the Phoca Gallery module. Make sure you have the following set in order to have the name and descriptions to showup on the slimbox:
- Display Image Description in Box = NO
- Detail View Settings->Detail Window = Slimbox
- Description Settings->Display Descriptions = Show (Standard)
- Description Settings->Display Title in Description = YES
- Overlib Effects Settings->Overlib Effect = NO
If you are using Phoca plugins or random image to diplay images in articles, you need to edit the respective .php files in those as well. You can find the original thread here:
phoca.cz/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=9860
I would still hope to find a solution to my original inquiry, but hopefully this will give other users a solution that is acceptable until this conflict between Phoca Gallery and Rocket Themes can be addressed, or until a different photo gallery can be suggested that offers front end user capabilities.
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- Pako
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I was having issues with the text in the description box getting truncated in the Altvalue tag as well as the new populated descriptions in the slimbox. After much searching, I never did find a solution until I revisited the issue and noticed that it was truncating at a "quotation" mark in the description field. Upon removing the quotes from the description, there were no more truncated paragraphs.
If someone knows a fix for that, please share, other wise quotes are OFF LIMITS for now.
Thanks!
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