[TYPO3] Language problem in bahag_photogallery

Jens Gammelgaard jens.gammelgaard at optimon.dk
Fri May 19 08:17:54 CEST 2006


Jens Gammelgaard skrev:
> Suman Debnath skrev:
>> Hi Kevin,
>>
>> Thanks for your feedback. Responses follow :) .
>>
>> 1) We were unaware of this issue. Could you explain a bit more ?
>>
>> 2) Thanks for the suggestion. This would certainly be implemented in 
>> the next iteration.
>>
>> 3) Actually it does, but is somewhat dependent on versions 5+. So we 
>> implemented the template constant for some users who don't have access 
>> to a newer version. This way they can use a different installation of 
>> IM. We are hoping to remove this 'hack' soon.
>>
>> 4) The BE controlled caching/indexing will be made optional so that 
>> the user has the choice of doing it in the FE (like you mentioned) as 
>> well. This solution is already in place, however would be released 
>> together with the other features as the next update.
>>
>> Actually when you re-index the gallery, it only recreates the 
>> changed/new images. However, if you have a large number of images, it 
>> does take quite a bit of time.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Suman Debnath
>>
>> Kevin Renskers wrote:
>>>> Except the language problem this is the best gallery I have tested!
>>>
>>> Hm I tried it too yesterday, because from the demo I've seen it 
>>> looked very promising. But sadly there are some problem with it that 
>>> stops me from using this extension.
>>>
>>> 1) The url's created don't work: the photoalbum uses links like 
>>> www.example.com/?gallery=4
>>>
>>> 2) The directories are not sorted by name. I wanted to use this 
>>> plugin for photoalbum that has multiple directory-levels, starting 
>>> with year, then album name. But the years are all randomly sorted.
>>>
>>> 3) It doesn't use the imagemagick config from Typo3 itself.
>>>
>>> 4) Creating the thumbnails takes a VERY long time with this plugin, 
>>> if you have many albums. Like I said, I wanted to use it for a 
>>> multi-leveled directory structure. When I add a directory with 
>>> photo's to my album structure, I have to re-index the whole thing! 
>>> With goof_fotoboek it is all done automatically when visiting an 
>>> album. And why does it use 3 seperate sub-directories? Use typo3temp!
>>>
>>> So the idea behind it is pretty cool, it looks pretty good and it 
>>> offers very cool functions, but there still is a lot of work to be 
>>> done. Mainly in the creation of the thumbnails...
>>>
>>> Kevin
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have a more simple question to the matter of language of this 
> excellent gallery:
> 
> I have created galleries in 2 different trees for 2 different languages. 
> So I have also created 2 different sysfolders for each respective 
> language. But for the second language the gallery only display the 
> thumnails and not the detail picture - which it does correctly in the 
> first language.
> 
> Why is that and what is the solution?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> Jens

My question has been moved till today regarding Bahag and 2 languages. 
Don't answer here. :-)



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