Picasa Slideshow for Joomla
Version
1.1 (last update on May 9, 2011)
Rating
Compatibility
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13
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
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66868
Date Added
28 August 2009
The available AJAX modules for displaying Picasa albums for some reason were displaying images in low quality, while Picasa's embeddable player was showing them fine.
I decided to use Picasa's flash player, but to simplify adding the album's url to other users, I thought of letting them add the album's RSS link instead (as done on http://www.tools4noobs.com/picasa/).
The difference between the url used in the player and the RSS one is just a tiny part of it: player refers to .../base/..., RSS to .../api/... A simple ereg_replace() did the trick...
You can select between the 5 sizes suggested by Picasa, and add your favourite background (HEX value, no # mark).
This is my first J! extension, hope it may come useful to someone!
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UPDATE:
Thanks to Zdeněk Juran (Zdenek.Juran@zoomint.com) for resolving the internationalization issue: his hack now extracts the hostname from the RSS feed
I think it's a good extension and does what it says.
However, for new users like me, there doesn't seem to be much documentation.
Maybe there's not much needed.
If anybody can give me tip, my album is not showing up, after I copied/pasted the picasa RSS link........
However, for new users like me, there doesn't seem to be much documentation.
Maybe there's not much needed.
If anybody can give me tip, my album is not showing up, after I copied/pasted the picasa RSS link........
Owner's reply
there's not much to document for it: just paste the RSS link of your Picasa album in the provided field and select the options you prefer...
try downloading and installing the new version, maybe Zdeněk's hack solves your problem?
Thanks for the great module, Max.
I just want to point out for anyone using the XHTML doctype, that is not a valid XHTML tag, so in order to have your page validate properly you will need to use the tag instead.
I found this article that gives a great comparison and makes it easy to edit the code being echoed by mod_picasaslideshop.php.
I just want to point out for anyone using the XHTML doctype, that is not a valid XHTML tag, so in order to have your page validate properly you will need to use the tag instead.
I found this article that gives a great comparison and makes it easy to edit the code being echoed by mod_picasaslideshop.php.
I must say up front that this was not the layout i was looking for, however, I've decided to stay with it because it was the only extension that loaded, and worked first time, without having to first read copious quantities of forums and documentation, hack the code to slide something else into the page or wait for 15 minutes for pages to load!
Soem thoughts for you though to make this even better ( a six star rating!)
Centre the module. Regardles of where you put it, it should be central.
Other than that very well done. If you are looking for an image gallery, check this out!
Soem thoughts for you though to make this even better ( a six star rating!)
Centre the module. Regardles of where you put it, it should be central.
Other than that very well done. If you are looking for an image gallery, check this out!
