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Gallery Plugin Update

February 16th, 2010

I have finished the first draft version of the gallery plugin, currently it can:

1) create gallery

2) add image on a gallery

3) add caption on a image like title and description

You can call the image gallery either on a short code or directly function.

_list_img(gallery id)

To use this plugin, on your root directory create “cache” folder ( it will save all the cache images here, TimThumb use this ) and put the “timthumb.php” on the root folder also.

The current UI or JS gallery I use is the Jquery Gallery View

The fun part of this is that, you can use any JS gallery / or any gallery that is out there. For now on this first version it is developer friendly yet!

It is manually added ( the JS Gallery ) and manually registering the scripts. My next version would be creating settings to administer:

1) auto resize of image ( what is the size of image, main and thumbnail you want )

2) display caption ( do you want to display the title or description of image )

on the next version who knows! im still thinking of it :)

here is the sample image gallery. By the way I use TimThumb for resizing images on the gallery view.

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Media Gallery – Draft – Change of Plan!

February 2nd, 2010

Media Gallery – Draft – Change of Plan!
Objective:
I would like to create this media gallery as a framework. There are lot of media gallery plugin out there, but what im aiming is a framework that could use into different Javascript Galleries. Not just one style of gallery but different.
The framework is more of a developer type, as im going to use the available / existing functionality of the wordpress such as, “Media”. Wordpress is already capable of uploading images and can be retrieve, so why not use it. The only problem is how do we use the image that has been uploaded, that has been use in post / page content, or get image by category.
The idea is to retrieve images in those aspects ( media upload, post / page content and by category ). I have studied the database structure and existing functions in wordpress and it can be done. Now the fun is that the plugin result of course an array of images.
Of course its convenient on our part ( programmer ) to use it, as we have the flexibility to use different JS UI / Gallery.
By getting the result as Array. That is the first version of this, and it is our framework or prototype to built the next version by adding more advance feature and flexibility of the plugin.
The array result would be associative array. Example:
Array
(
[0] => Array
 (
 [large_image] => url_of_large_image
 [thumb_image] => url_of_thumb_image
 [title] => title / name of the image
[description] =>description the image
 )
[1] => Array
 (
 [large_image] => url_of_large_image
 [thumb_image] => url_of_thumb_image
 [title] => title / name of the image
 [description] => description of the image
 )
)
so we will use the result and display the chosen JS gallery.
Again this is for the 1st version and our framework as well for the rest of the version. I will elaborate the version more clearly.
In version:
0.1
- Framework Gallery / Code
- this version is what I mention above details
- retrieve image on upload folder, post / page content and categories
0.2
- Here we have a feature for Album
- This will use if we need album in our gallery
- And can be use on a JS Gallery that supports Album
0.3
- Create feature or option on what JS Gallery to be use
- In this version it will be a list or drop down of available JS Gallery to be use, and to minimize the coding
- this will eliminate php coding, but html, css and js are editable to suit one need.
0.5
- create settings such as changing color of the gallery background
- this version will change or update any color of your choice
- this will eliminate php coding, but html are editable to suit one need.
- however css and js ( this control color, and layout ) will minimize the coding as much as possible.
0.6
- would like to create a water mark on any images.
- either text or image overlay
As I said I separate it by version so that in version 0.1 we can already use the plugin, but with an intervention of the developers or those has knowledge in coding ( php, html, css and js )
On version 0.3 onwards it will minimize the coding, or atleast anyone can display the media / image gallery.
* As of Febuary 02, 2010 I have the rough draft / design of the version 0.1

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Video Playlist Plugin

February 1st, 2010

Hello this is the Video Playlist Plugin, our first plugin coded by Blue Eagle Engineers.

It uploads video with image and also can embed url movies such as youtube and a like.

the width and height can be define, to add this plugin to your post or pages, you need to type the shortcode ( videoplaylist ) on the editor. It can be also called via function.

this is short code
(videoplaylist)

this is short code /w width and height
(videoplaylist width=”280″ height=”240″)

replace the “( )” with “[ ]”

this is for the function to call outside shortcode

_apyc_videoplaylist_code($width,$height)

And after everything are done there is a button that says “Create / Re-Create Playlist File” this will create XML and the video player will read this XML.

please check this sample:

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Hello world!

February 1st, 2010

Welcome to Blue Eagle Development, I would like to use this as our development Diary on what plugins where creating!

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