Magazine as Gallery

mdb76 · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 55

I had the idea of using the magazine component as a basic gallery component.

You would use the image as usual and the intro text becomes the image description. The only change needed would be instead of having a 'read more' link, you would have a 'click to enlarge' link which would open a popup showing a larger image of the thumbnail.

Any thoughts?

Mame du Bois

merav · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 3:33 pm Post subject:

Interesting idea, but why not use a regular image gallery?

mdb76 · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 55

Hi Merav,

With most other gallery options, you need to install a Gallery script like Coppermine or Gallery 2 then implement a bridge. Then you have to try and get your gallery template to co-ordinate with your Joomla template. Confused

I am a non coder so this makes me a little nervous. I have done it once before sucessfully and its quite a lot of work. Using a component would make backups a lot easier too.

Using Magazine this way would be easy and quite effective I think.

Mame du Bois

merav · Posted: Wed Jul 12, 2006 4:29 pm Post subject:

Point taken. Thanks!

mdb76 · Joined: 01 Jan 1970 Posts: 55

Hi Merav,

Just found this component. Kind of shows what I am getting at. A popup solution would be ideal though as it gives more universal functionality.

http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree
/task,viewlink/link_id,412/Itemid,35/

Regards,
Mame du Bois

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