View thumbnail of images and video clips

**azayne** · 06-27-2007, 01:48 PM

I have galleries that contain a twenty or so images each. Each of these are a link. The video galleries, contain about five clips each.

I plan to have each story link to a gallery. Anyway I can have a random sample of five thumbnails from each gallery presented in the story's description?

**cent** · 06-27-2007, 11:03 PM

Hi. I'm assuming that the gallery is using a different app and you want to link to it with pligg. You can set the story link as the link to the specific gallery. This might take a bit of work but you can probably create a module that allows you to attach an rss feed of the specific gallery to each entry. Then the module would just parse the feed and display the thumbnails. However, I think there might be a bottle neck in parsing a number of rss feeds on a listing page. Though if the rss feed is pretty basic it may not be too much of a problem.

Perhaps I'm over thinking this... Its late so my mind is a bit fried.

Best,
Cent

**azayne** · 06-28-2007, 01:20 AM

So I was able to feed the galleries through RSS. However, the problem is that I want the story descriptions (in my case, the gallery descriptions) to contain a few thumbnail images from each gallery.

How can this be done?

Is there a programmer here who can mod this?

Originally Posted by cent

Hi. I'm assuming that the gallery is using a different app and you want to link to it with pligg. You can set the story link as the link to the specific gallery. This might take a bit of work but you can probably create a module that allows you to attach an rss feed of the specific gallery to each entry. Then the module would just parse the feed and display the thumbnails. However, I think there might be a bottle neck in parsing a number of rss feeds on a listing page. Though if the rss feed is pretty basic it may not be too much of a problem.

Perhaps I'm over thinking this... Its late so my mind is a bit fried.

Best,
Cent

**azayne** · 06-28-2007, 05:53 PM

Anyone????

**aaronpais** · 06-28-2007, 06:03 PM

Cent, actually I would like this functionality as well, if you could extend the functionality of your mod to the RSS feeds.

My site URateLocal.com pulls feeds (stories) from my subsites. Each story has an image (image attached using your image module). It would be nice if the image was attached to the story being pulled, and included in the feed, so a mini-image would display next to the story...

Here is a demo page to illustrate - Some demo feeds

Thx

**cent** · 06-28-2007, 07:52 PM

Hi Aaron,

I know exactly what you would like to do. I wonder if the RSS parser Pligg uses can be extended with Modules (devs?)

Images are included in RSS feeds in 3 ways (I think)... within CDATA inside of a description node as normal HTML <img> tag, within an image node which is a sub-element of <channel> or as a media <enclosure>. I have yet to see images in RSS feeds within media enclosures thought almost all MP3s are sent that way.

So essentially, the module will need to be run whenever the RSS feeds are processed, parse the description data for <img> tags, grab the images from the URL's provided, save them locally and process them. The module would need to look for <image:url> nodes and process those images as well looking for images as enclosures.

In short, I think its very doable.

However, there are a few things to consider. Some RSS feeds include site logos within the description part of the feed. Also, some RSS feeds include banner ads. These will be seen as images needing to be processed. So you may find that there are extraneous images that don't belong to an entry.

I think what azayne was referring to was having Pligg and a separate photo gallery being linked together. So that a story can be created in Pligg and linked to the gallery. At the same time, images from a specific gallery album can be shown within the entry.

Either way, I think its possible to have the above turned into a module. I'd be willing to help out as much as possible. I've worked with parsing RSS feeds for other projects so I'm familiar, but not as familiar as I would probably need to be.

Best,
Cent

Originally Posted by aaronpais

Cent, actually I would like this functionality as well, if you could extend the functionality of your mod to the RSS feeds.

My site URateLocal.com pulls feeds (stories) from my subsites. Each story has an image (image attached using your image module). It would be nice if the image was attached to the story being pulled, and included in the feed, so a mini-image would display next to the story...

Here is a demo page to illustrate - Some demo feeds

Thx

**azayne** · 06-29-2007, 12:05 PM

Cent,

You know exactly what I am talking about. Can thumbnails also be taken from galleries that only have video clips instead of images? I'm guessing FFmpeg can be used??

If you need monetary help to get it done, please let me know and I will be more than willing to assist.

**P1mpPanther** · 06-29-2007, 02:07 PM

ok, so ive been asking bout gallerys for a minute here and now i see some chatter

Pligg uses Magpie for its RSS feeds - you can probably grab a copy of that an make some sort of mod or extension with it - it will parse your feed(s) and you can format them however you wish - images, html, etc...

**azayne** · 07-01-2007, 04:00 PM

Is someone planning to work on this? I will gladly make a donation.

If no one here wants to develop this mod then if you can let me know what instructions to pass on to a programmer, I will contribute the module to the Pligg community.

**cent** · 07-01-2007, 08:11 PM

Hi, unfortunately I'm wrapped up in a number of projects and wouldn't be able to donate time (paid or otherwise) to this project. But I'd be happy to chime in with any information and help (pro bono) should someone want to develop this mod.

Best,
Cent