Radiant Photo Gallery with lightbox Effect

Gallery

Created by: Andrea Franz - bigchieflabs.com/blog/
Version: 0.5.2

The Gallery extension allows to manage galleries of images.
Features:

* Image/file upload (or retrieving by url)
* Import (FTP)
* Images/files sorting (drag-n-drop)
* Automatic thumbnail generation for images.
* Image crop (ALPHA version)

Installation

Get the latest version of gallery extension with darcs:

darcs get http://darcs.bigchieflabs.com/radiant/extensions/gallery/

…or download it in your vendor/extensions folder from here:

http://darcs.bigchieflabs.com/radiant/extensions/gallery/gallery.tar.gz

From your Rails app root type theese commands:

rake radiant:extensions:gallery:install
rake radiant:extensions:gallery:example

The second one creates an example of GalleryPage you can find at "your_site_url/gallery-example". Check it out after creating a new Gallery in your radiant administation panel.
Dependencies

Gallery extension requires RMagick

Usage
List all gallery in a Gallery page

Create a new page and set Gallery as PageType.

Galleries

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List gallery items in a simple page

You can list all the items of a gallery specifying its id:

Direct access to gallery items

You can access directly to a gallery item, but you must specify 2 attribute. The gallery id, and the position of the item:


Lightbox style

In order for lightbox to work you have to include this Radiant tag in your layout HEAD section:



Now you can use the tag in a simple page specifying the gallery id:



…or in a Gallery page:

Galleries

Enjoy!