downloaded and installed, now what?

[jayntguru]

I must be missing something real obvious here. (?)

Found the site, downloaded the product, and got it installed and working great.

http://www.nx2k.com/gallery/

Now how do I get pics to show up? Creating a gallery is obvious, but beyond that, I am lost.

Did I miss some documentation somewhere or something? I read a ways back in this forum and didn't see much pertaining to my issues. No readme or dowc in the download, and none at the site I can find.

Soooo, what's the trick? How do I get my pics to show up in a gallery? I am aware that I must prepare them and upload them, but I can't find anything else.

What did I miss?

[seanspeng]

Go to the editor page then you will see everything there. Spend some time on that editor: .../exhibition_editor.php :)

[TimH]

I have just spent a few hours trying to get this all set up and working (vs1.3).

After I had installed it, this is what I did to get it working:

Create copies of your JPEGs in different sizes (big/normal/small/thumb/micro).
Create a directory under gallery /photos or whatever.

lets assume you photos are of dogs: Create the following directories under photos:
dogs
big
normal
small
thumb
microthumb

post all your files into the relevant folders. each file exists in each folder with the same name but is a different size.

Then create an exhibition. (I am assuming you have worked out how to do this).
Then edit the file paths for your thumbs etc using the 'path editor'
Then use the 'set default photdata' page to set the default file paths to use for different size photos for your new exhibition.
Then pick a photo to edit, add it to your exhibition. Make it available to the public, scroll down and check it picked up the page size defaults you just set.

It should work...

Its all a bit fidly the first time, but once you have sussed it, it will be easy thereafter.

Best of luck
Tim

[TimH]

Oh - and do not forget to set one of your sizes in the size path editor to default!

[Pekka]

See also http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7392

[Inactive user 09]

I had the same dilema, however, I solved it once I regcognized that in the thumb / microthumb path the dots ... ie (../thumbs/ or ./thumbs) actually refer to the number of steps back you need to take from your input folder.

In other words .... lets say you placed your thumbs like this ...... http://www.yourdomain.com/gallery/YOURFOLDER/ and then in "YOURFOLDER" you have the subdirectories ... then your thumb path would be ... for thumbs

URL :
http:/www.yourdomain.com/gallery/YOURFOLDER/thumbs/

Relative Path
../YOURFOLDER/thumbs/

Remember the number of dots ".." refers to the number of steps back from the Input folder.

Hope that helps

Cheers,

Jaymz
www.jaymz.ca

[ausoleil]

Thanks to Pekka for all of his help figuring this out. I wrote down a set of instructions for my wife, and then changed the URL and a couple other goodies and pasted below. Hope it helps and hope it's 100% right. It worked for me, anyway. Have fun!!!!!

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Setting up a new Exhibition in EE -- AKA The Path To Success

The key to the newbie is the default exhibit D30 Photos, it's what Scooby Doo calls a clue.

Let's say your web site is http://www.mygreatpix.com
And that you installed EE to a folder called Gallery
And that you renamed your INPUT folder in the Gallery folder to "foo"

Cool. Your address to get to the Control area of EE is to go to http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/foo

Go there.

Now you are in the control area for your new EE install.

Go to the Path Editor, there is a link at the top.

Here's where it gets interesting.

On your PC, let's say you have in mind you want to name "Paris"

Make a folder on your PC called "paris"

Let's say you have four sizes of pictures:

Large shots
Smaller shots
Thumbnails
Very small Thumbnails

In the new "Paris" folder, create four folders:

large
small
thumbs
microthumbs

Make sure you know these names -- and that you are sure about the case of the letters. I recommend using only small letters in your folders, as it is sort of a standard practice and easier to remember.

Now, use Photoshop, and make the parts of your exhibition:

larger pictures will be saved in the "large" folder
smaller pictures (the default, remember this) will be saved into the "small" folder
Thumbnails will go into "thumbs"
Micro-thumbs will go, oddly enough, into "microthumbs"

Now, here's a catch -- make SURE that the names of the photos that match each other are exactly the same in each of the four folders -- tower.jpg, that lovely shot you got of the Eiffel Tower from a boat on the Seine should also have identical names in each folder: tower.jpg ... or EE won't be able to match 'em up later.

Now, FTP or move the folder into your gallery folder.

Your path, following through this example is:

http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris

Now, let's get back to the Path Editor. Time to get busy.

Click the Add New Size Path button four times. Four new paths will appear.

In the first one:

enter "Small" (sans quotes) into the Menu Text field.
enter "http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris/small/" into the URL it leads to field
enter "default" into the variable field.

In the second one:

enter "Large" (sans quotes) into the Menu Text field.
enter "http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris/large/" into the URL it leads to field
enter "paris_large" into the variable field.

In the third one:

enter "Thumbs" (sans quotes) into the Menu Text field.
enter "http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris/thumbs/" into the URL it leads to field
enter "paris_thumbs" into the variable field.

In the fourth one:

enter "Micro-Thumbs" (sans quotes) into the Menu Text field.
enter "http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris/microthumbs/" into the URL it leads to field
enter "paris_microthumbs" into the variable field.

Double-check yourself for accuracy. Make sure you don't have quotation marks or mismatching capital letters, etc. UNIX is VERY unforgiving about this.

Now, once you are satisfied click the Update All Size Paths Button. Notice the variable default has gone bold and dark red.

Now, you are not quite done. Go to the Thumb Path Editor.

Click Add New Thumb Path. A new thumb path will appear.

In the URL field, enter
http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris/thumb/

In the Relative Path field, enter

../paris/thumb/

make sure you have the TWO dots. Not one, not none, two.

Click Update All Thumb Paths

Not done QUITE yet. One more task. Go to Microthumb Path Editor

Click Add new Microthumb Path

In URL enter
http://www.mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris/microthumb/

In Relative Path enter
../paris/microthumb/

Kinda sorta like the thumb path... two dots. slash. folder. slash. subfolder. Not much simpler than that.

And then once you are satisfied, click the Update All Microthumb Paths button.

Cool. Your paths exist and should all work, IF (and only if) you entered them in correctly.

Read the FAQ's etc and make sure your file permissions into your http://mygreatpix.com/gallery/paris folders are right and that you have done so for each folder and file underneath.

Now it's time to create the exhibition.

Click Create A New Exhibition
Name it
Go to Select Thumb Path ... dropdown. Looks what's in there -- your new path! Take it.
Go to the Select Microthumb Path dropdown ... Again, look what's in there ... your new microthumb path. Take it to.

Follow the FAQ's and instructions and make your new exhibition. You should have everything right in your paths and ready to show off your work. Good luck!

Happy Exhibiting!