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jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 955

Since lightbox has just been brought up, I'll go ahead and mention this.

I am currently writing a new g2image selector from the ground up that will be a much better fit for phpbb3 and the integration. It is about 75% finished at this point. It makes use of the phpbb template system, language system, session management system, cache system and makes far less use of Gallery and server resources the way the current g2image does.
*edit* Oh yeah, also will support resized images instead of just the original image.

Along the lines of lightbox, I've been looking at using slimbox instead. It is a much smaller and simpler type of lightbox and from the integration stand point it will be a lot easier to implement.

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PoPoutdoor · Guru Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Posts: 65

Just install phpbb3 on my test server.

Hoped that I'm get used to do phpbb3 mods by the time you released the new g2image selector code Smile

jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 955

Cool you're giving phpbb3 a trial...I think you will like it a lot better once you get used to it.

I have slimbox working now and it's much easier to build into the integration since it only requires 2 js files, 1 css file and 4 image files and the entire package is smaller than lightbox and easier to put in the template directories instead of it's own separate directory.

I have most of the php written for the image selector. There are still some features I want to add to it, but I'm to the point I need to get the javascript working to do the actual bbcode insertion in the message post form. This may be the hardest part for me because I know next to nothing about programming js. Right now I'm trying to hack Kirk's original js code just to make something work. Any js coders care to help out?

PoPoutdoor · Guru Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Posts: 65

WoW! This looks good!

I'm getting used to phpbb3 after trying some simple MODs, I can be your tester if you're ready to release the beta code. Smile

jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 955

Cool, help is always good! Smile

Unfortunately, I've had no time to work on this in the last week, so nothing has been done and I'm still at the javascript hangup. Just haven't had time to work on it.

PoPoutdoor, how is your js skills? I know you modified the phpbb2 g2image for resized images and was going to look at what you did, but haven't yet. I can send you what I have if you want to spend some time and take a crack at it...

PoPoutdoor · Guru Joined: Jan 20, 2006 Posts: 65

Sorry for late reply!

Been busy playing around the phpBB3 code, and will start the phpbbplus integration by next week.

If you still stuck with the javascripts, I can try to see what I can do about that... but don't expect too much and may take sometime for me to understand the code logic.

jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 955

Had some time to work on the javascript yesterday and things are starting to work. Should be able to finish up the features/details soon. I think I see a light at the end of the tunnel now! Smile

BDS · Beginner Joined: Apr 18, 2008 Posts: 5 Location: Florida

oh this is gonna be great!!!!

jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 955

Ok, had the javascript stuff mostly working in firefox. Fired up microsoft IE to try it out and...choke, puke, die...what a PITA! Evil or Very Mad

Spent the last day and half of my free time rewriting the js again. Had to add mods to the build_hidden_fields function in phpbb so it could add hidden fields with id->value instead of just name->value. Apparently there are differences in the way firefox and IE handle getElementsByName() and also firefox seems to handle associative arrays just fine while IE does not. So everything is changed to use getElementById() now and seems to be happy on both browsers.

But, in the end, all the javascript functions are working now and I think the new image selector is about 90% there now. Just mainly need to add php code for Next/Previous buttons and some code to navigate larger albums that have more than a scree full of images. Should be a cakewalk after fighting this js stuff!

jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 955

Quote: › Just mainly need to add php code for Next/Previous buttons and some code to navigate larger albums that have more than a scree full of images. Should be a cakewalk after fighting this js stuff!

Since phpbb already has pagination functions for navigating large forums and threads, it was even easier than I thought! All done...

Just need to thrash through the main integration code now and make sure everything still works with slimbox and make sure the ucp stuff I just added that was using the old image chooser still works with the new image selector.

I am hoping Gallery 2.3 will be out soon so the next integration version can be released around the same time. Smile

jettyrat · Moderator Joined: Nov 28, 2005 Posts: 955

Of course the phpbb mod team as changed their packaging requirements again, so I have to repackage everything again...ugh.

I'll probably remove the screenshots this time because they are too much trouble to keep updated and it will make the whole package a lot smaller.