UGM (Ultimate Gallery Manager) is a simple image solution that contains your images in accessible categorized and organized folders ready for integration into any compatible Joomla CMS Gallery or Imaging extension.
I used this component on a site that I am upgrading to Joomla 1.5. Since it looks like osCandy is not coming back anytime soon, I took it upon myself to port the application. It appears to work.
Upload file & install the zip file. note: If you installed the smoothgallery2 plugin, remove it first!
3. Watch the following video from osCandy (it's very helpful)
4. Read the Tutorial Page
I found this video from osCandy very useful when I started using UGM.
History
The following are the changes I have made, what I would like to do,
and problems that need to be fixed. If you have any suggestions,
feedback, patches, requests, etc, please contact me or use the Joomla forums.
Changes
Version 1.5.6b
ported UGM over to Joomla 1.5 framework
[fixed] bug that only takes images with lowercase extensions
[fixed] various bugs
?added debugging frame work to write debugging files on server
To Do
Change files structures over to MVC framework that Joomla 1.5 now advocates
Make the interface more Joomla like to lesson the learning curve
Write a simple gallery to make it easier to display on a site
Optimize the ajax (it is slow)
Fix time out bug on large graphic images
add language files
Disclamor
Use at your own risk! To the best of my ability I have tested the code and ported
it to the 1.5 framework. However, I don't know if it will always work, or if it will eat your
website, or ...
Credits
I would like to thank the people at osCandy for the original component for Joomla 1.0. I would like to also thank Marc Stroz of phpaugusta.com who originally ported SmoothGallery + LightBox. Finally, a big thanks to the people that wrote Joomla and Mambo.
The Mostly Original Tutorial
The following is the tutorial that comes with the component. I've only made some minor changes.
Google Picasa Integration:
Find, organize and share your photos.
Picasa is a free software downloadable from Google:
Video Tutorial:
This 1 min 25 sec video shows you how to upload Picasa Album Galleries to UGM
Click the link above to download Picasa
Exporting Album to XML
1. Export album from Picasa to your desktop using Folder Export as HTML Page
2. Select Size from "Export pictures at this size:"
3. Enter title in "Enter the title you want to appear at the top of the Web page" this will be the album name in Joomla
4. Under "Select a folder in which to save the Web page and pictures" click on Browse, select "Desktop".
5. Hit "Next"
6. From "Template Name" select XML Code
7. Hit "Finish"
8. Close IE/FIREFOX window if it opens.
9. Go to your desktop
10. Find the folder with same name as the title of the album that you exported
11. Right click on the folder, select Send To Compressed (zipped) Folder
12. Press "Yes" to the long message
Ok, your album is ready.
Upload Album to Joomla
1. Log into your Joomla backend
2. Go Components UGM
3. Click Browse
4. Select the compressed zip file you created earlier 5. Hit Upload
Done
Now you will see a new Album added to the list of available albums.
Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 February 2009 02:44
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