How to - Configure ImageSlideShow
April 12, 2008 · Filed Under ImageSlideshow, joomla
Image Slide Show for Joomla! 1.5 needs very limited configuration for it to work. for most purposes the only parameters that need to be modified are “Image Directory” and the “Height” and “Width” parameters. Below are listed all the current parameters and what effect they have on ISS.
- Image Directory : Set this to the location on your website where the images that you want ImageSlideShow (ISS) to use are located. ISS will use all the images (BMP, GIF, JPG and PNG) that are located in the location specified.
- Height in pixels : Sets a common height that ISS will attempt to display the images at.
- Width in pixels : Sets a common width that ISS will atttempt to display the images at.
- Transition Delay : Sets a delay, in miliseconds, between each phase of the transition between two consecutive images. A lower value will speed up transition but utilises more CPU cycles. A higher value will slow down transition but will use less CPU cycles
- Next Image Delay : Sets the period of time, in miliseconds, that determines for how long the current image will be displayed and when the next image will start to transition in.
- Slideshow title : Sets the “alt” tag on the image so that it displays the text when the cursor “hovers” over the image.
- URL : Sets the URL to which the browser will navigate to if the image is clicked. Works in tandem with “Enable Link?”
- Enable Link? : Has 3 options, “disable” which will not allow any action whn image is clicked. “Enable (same window)” => navigate to the URL within the same browser window. “Enable (new window)” => navigate to the URL by opening a new browser window.
- Display Sequence: Determines the sequence ISS will display the images. “Disable” will display the images in the sequence that the images were read from the source directory. “Shuffle” will load the images and then place them in a pseudo-random order. Pattern will repeat once all images have been displayed. “Sorted” will load the images and then perform a “natural” sort by file name. Natural sort will sort files alphabetically as a human understand i.e. “img1.jpg” is followed by “img2.jpg” and so on.Pattern will repeat once all images are displayed. “Totally Random” is just that, random pattern of images being displayed.
- Resize Images: If enabled will resize the images in the specifed directory to the size specifed. this does not modify the original images. ISS will create a resized copy of the image in a subdirectory of the directory containing the images. The sub-directory is called briaskThumbs, this directory must be created by you and the process running Joomla! must be given permission to write to that directory. How you do that very much depends on the server environment that you are running Joomla! under and is not something I can answer in this short post.
If you have any questions on ImageSlideShow, please post the question in my ImageSlideShow forum.
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20 Responses to “How to - Configure ImageSlideShow”
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Great, great module. May I kindly request 2 improvements?
1- option to auto resize images, keeping proportions.
2- option to center images (smaller ones on one dimension of course) in the defined “window”.
1- is option to downsize image…
In mod_briaskUtility.php
It says:
function briask_resizeImages($picDir, $pxWidth, $pxWidth)
It should say:
function briask_resizeImages($picDir, $pxWidth, $pxHeight)
So version 0.5 update *smiles*
Really love this - it makes the whole site look more dynamic. Is there any way to stop the same picture coming up first when it is on Random?
Next update will have random image on startup when “random” option is chosen
@Kim, indeed you are right, but that code isn’t actually used anywhere. It is the code for resizing images which is not released yet, but hopefully will be in next update.
Any chance of the next version supporting “Module Class Suffix”?
Yes, the next update will have Module Class Suffix
Is there any way to have each image link to a different url?
BTW- Thanks for making this cool and useful mod
Hi
Thanks for great module.
I would like an autoresizing feature - I’m looking forward to the next release
Until then I use picture resizer: http://www.rw-designer.com/picture-resize
Whitch is very easy to use.
best reguards
Niels
Hi,
Good module!.
Is it possible to use the image directory also including the subdirectories of that directory?
Best regards, Peter
hmmm…
it only seems to work if the directory path is “images”
if i change the path to something outside of the template directory (e.g. “/images/slideshow”) it doesn’t work.
In fact, even if its a subdir underneath “images” won’t work (e.g. “images/slideshow”)
is this expected behaviour?
No, this is not the behaviour of ISS. As long as Joomla! has the rights to read from the directory then there will not be an issue.
Check the rights that J! has to the directory.
For some reason this module adds the css and js links to the body of the document, which of course fails to validate in a spectacular fashion. I’ll pull another module apart and see if I can fix it.
Paul, many thanks for you comments and your subsequent comment with a fix on another post. I still have a lot to learn!
I’d like to say that it was the product of my fantastic coding skill, but in fact I spent five minutes Googling and cut and pasted a piece of code that I found.
I must say that so far I’m sold on this extension. Other Flash or AJAX banner rotators have weird side-effects, display the whole image directory for a moment, or crash IE completely (and that’s the leading commercial one).
Yours just seems to work. Thanks for a great contribution to the Joomla universe!
Paul Bolger
Great module. Agree with having the option to centre images.
Good work!
Fantastic work! I have a template with a lot of weird mods, and several similar programs have failed to work. This one did the trick, without any complications. Thanks a million.
It works just fine with IE6.
Thanks again.
Very nice! Easy to use. Thank you so much for sharing this/