ImageSlideShow - Issue, publishing ISS module multiple times on Joomla 1.5
Quite a number of people have asked if it is possible to publish mutiple copies of the ImageSlideshow on one Joomla 1.5 page. The answer is, unfortunately, no. Well, not just yet…
To be honest, when the first query came in I thought that it would be very quick and simple to code, but no! it is not.
The problem is, ISS needs to remember which image is being displayed, which image list to use, which image is next in rotation and how to smoothly transition between the two images on the Joomla page etc.
With only one ISS module published you can get away with relatively poor coding but when you start to allow the possbility of 2 or unlimited copies then keeping track of where you are in the sequence becomes more problematic and you can’t really resolve it with poor coding practice.
So this turns out to be a very good coding exercise and precisely what I needed to enable me to learn more about PHP, Javascript and Joomla 1.5 . The resolution is being worked on, I will resolve it and when it is ready it will be published it here and I will update the Joomla extensions site.
As for the other requests, I have finished coding the ability for links, titles, random display of images, resizing images and even the generation of image thumbnails but I am not going to publish that until I can include the resolution to the multiple copies issue.
Image slideshow and Google Analytics
Have to say that pushing Image Slideshow up onto the Joomla! extensions site was an interesting exercise, didn’t think it was quite ready but as I had just updated this site with a new plaything… Google Analytics, I wanted to see what would happen.
As much as I love and hate Google, they are the biggest web search engine around and have free and interesting tools to see what is happening with your website. Lots of interesting statistics which I have yet to understand the meaning behind but one simple one was very interesting.
60% of the people who came to the site use FireFox, 30% on IE, the other 10% on Opera, Safari and Mozilla and some other obscure or niche browsers. I know the audience for J! is kinda skewed towards the technical types like myself but a 2:1 in favour of Firefox was a little surprising to me… or maybe I just need to get out more!
Joomla 1.5 Rotating Image SlideShow module
Finally got my act together and got the Joomla 1.5 slideshow module up and running.
Will be writing up a tutorial on how to develop this type of module for Joomla 1.5. Follows the usual J! 1.5 install process and has parameter that can be changed to suit your need.
Works fine with IE 7 and FireFox 2. Don’t have IE6 to test with so if any problems are found please email me at briask@briask.com
Written in PHP and Javascript, it has proved to be a nice introduction to programming in those languages
PHP and JavaScript - books and first impressions
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
Professional Joomla! (Programmer to Programmer)
are the first books I’ve bought to help me get started coding.
Haven’t had a detailed read yet, but the O’Reilly “The Definitive Guide” series have served me well in the non-web world so should be good here too.
Have been playing with the simple examples in the first chapters of each book,just to get familar with the coding and looks like there is nothing too odd from a structure or logic point of view. Dealing with HTML and the webworld may hold some surprises but haven’t gotten that far yet.
Of course to actually play with PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript you need to have a webserver and MySQL installed. Turns out this are really simple and easy to install on your own machine. Will write up my experiences of those soon.
Briask- Minor update to ImageSlideShow
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