Cooliris, anyone?

[thewillistree]

Has anyone dabbled with integrating Cooliris into their TNG site?

I think the effect is amazing - and a 'portrait wall' would be really impressive.....

Any thoughts, anyone?

[Mike Goodstadt]

A forum search brings up http://pickrum.org by Jesse (this is the new/correct URL):

http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...amp;hl=cooliris

Check it out at this page which you get to in the TNG section - below the picture on the index page you see his CoolIris Slideshow link:

http://pickrum.org/tng/ci-main.php?page=Ch...s=feed=ci-c.rss

It is indeed a great way to browse images.

All the best,

Mike

[Jesse]

A forum search brings up http://pickrum.org by Jesse (this is the new/correct URL):

http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic...amp;hl=cooliris

Check it out at this page which you get to in the TNG section - below the picture on the index page you see his CoolIris Slideshow link:

http://pickrum.org/tng/ci-main.php?page=Ch...s=feed=ci-c.rss

It is indeed a great way to browse images.

All the best,

Mike

Mike & Paul,

from Mike and Member Webpages "Can you will us in on the process of integrating CoolIris in the Code" Discussion section?"

Afraid I'm not very good at explaining things but will try to help. Most of what you need is on the Cooliris website but it's not exactly user friendly on everything. Having been a hacker sort for several years, managed to get things to work.

First of course, you must install the Cooliris plug-in for your browser. I then include the lines:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://lite.piclens.com/current/piclens.js"></script>

<link rel="alternate" href="ci-all.rss" type="application/rss+xml" title="" id="gallery" />

in my header file. The "ci-all.rss" is located in the root directory and looks something like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<channel>

<atom:icon>http://pickrum.com/PicGen/PC-Genealogy4.png</atom:icon>

<item>

<title>Chastain, Alvin Isom - only known photo</title>

<link>../pgv/media/ChastainAlvinIsom-01.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="../pgv/media/ChastainAlvinIsom-01_thumb.jpg" />

<media:content url="../pgv/media/ChastainAlvinIsom-01.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>Chastain, Benjamin Franklin and Family</title>

<link>../pgv/media/ChastainBenFrankFamily.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="../pgv/media/ChastainBenFrankFamily_thumb.jpg" />

<media:content url="../pgv/media/ChastainBenFrankFamily.jpg" type="" />

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

I've only included 2 entries just to keep it short here. My file locations are a bit different than yours will probably be because I use a common directory for 2 different programs.

When you can get this to work, I can try to help some more. As for flickr, don't have a clue as I have never used it.

Paul, I looked at your site and it does not show as being Cooliris enabled at this time.

Jesse

[thewillistree]

Thanks Jesse - can I ask which page you used when setting up CoolIris on your site? As I understand it you need to select a URL which has thumbnail AND fullsize versions of images. I've tried but all it shows are the TNG icons.... I'm confused!

Paul

Mike & Paul,

from Mike and Member Webpages "Can you will us in on the process of integrating CoolIris in the Code" Discussion section?"

Afraid I'm not very good at explaining things but will try to help. Most of what you need is on the Cooliris website but it's not exactly user friendly on everything. Having been a hacker sort for several years, managed to get things to work.

First of course, you must install the Cooliris plug-in for your browser. I then include the lines:

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://lite.piclens.com/current/piclens.js"></script>

<link rel="alternate" href="ci-all.rss" type="application/rss+xml" title="" id="gallery" />

in my header file. The "ci-all.rss" is located in the root directory and looks something like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<channel>

<atom:icon>http://pickrum.com/PicGen/PC-Genealogy4.png</atom:icon>

<item>

<title>Chastain, Alvin Isom - only known photo</title>

<link>../pgv/media/ChastainAlvinIsom-01.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="../pgv/media/ChastainAlvinIsom-01_thumb.jpg" />

<media:content url="../pgv/media/ChastainAlvinIsom-01.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>Chastain, Benjamin Franklin and Family</title>

<link>../pgv/media/ChastainBenFrankFamily.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="../pgv/media/ChastainBenFrankFamily_thumb.jpg" />

<media:content url="../pgv/media/ChastainBenFrankFamily.jpg" type="" />

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

I've only included 2 entries just to keep it short here. My file locations are a bit different than yours will probably be because I use a common directory for 2 different programs.

When you can get this to work, I can try to help some more. As for flickr, don't have a clue as I have never used it.

Paul, I looked at your site and it does not show as being Cooliris enabled at this time.

Jesse

[Jesse]

Thanks Jesse - can I ask which page you used when setting up CoolIris on your site? As I understand it you need to select a URL which has thumbnail AND fullsize versions of images. I've tried but all it shows are the TNG icons.... I'm confused!

Paul

Paul,

Not sure I understand your question, can you show me the file you are trying to use (the .rss file).

Jesse

[thewillistree]

Erm, sounds like we might have crossed wires - I'm referring to the Enable your Site process....

Paul,

Not sure I understand your question, can you show me the file you are trying to use (the .rss file).

Jesse

[Jesse]

Erm, sounds like we might have crossed wires - I'm referring to the Enable your Site process....

Paul,

Never had much luck with the Quick Enable your Site, so just went to the Full Featured as it was easier for me and is what I wanted to do in the end anyway. If you follow the things below and create a simple .rss file similar to the one sent earlier I think you will understand it better than the so called Quick way. They are supposed to be working on a way to just choose a directory on your site and create the rss file. Because TNG stores both the full size images and the thumbs in the same directory (only program that I know of that does this and is wrong in my opinion) I'm not sure it will work with the TNG directories. I mentioned Cooliris and the thumbs issue to Darrin a few weeks ago and he did not seem interested.

I include these lines in the <body> section of my TNG header file (the header file specified in "Setup >> Configuration >> General Settings >> Site Design and Definition") as this file appears on each page.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://lite.piclens.com/current/piclens.js"></script>

<link rel="alternate" href="your.rss" type="application/rss+xml" title="" id="gallery" />

The "your.rss" (you can use any file name with the extension .rss and is the only thing that can be changed in the above lines) file needs to be located in the TNG root directory (same directory as the index.php for TNG).

Jesse

[Jesse]

Erm, sounds like we might have crossed wires - I'm referring to the Enable your Site process....

Paul,

I created a small rss file on my site called "ci-willis.rss" see below (I prefix all my Cooliris css files with "ci" to keep them together).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<channel>

<atom:icon>http://pickrum.com/PicGen/PC-Genealogy4.png</atom:icon>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/2eastbrookplace.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/2eastbrookplaceTH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/2eastbrookplace.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/3westburyroad.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/3westburyroadTH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/3westburyroad.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/6forgelane.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/6forgelaneTH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/6forgelane.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/willis family 1942.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/willis family 1942TH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/willis family 1942.jpg" type="" />

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Note that it references your site photos and not photos copied to mine. Now go to my site at:

http://pickrum.org/tng/ci-main.php?page=Ch...s=feed=ci-c.rss

Assuming you have the Cooliris plug-in installed on your browser, click on "The Willis Tree" and you should see the 4 photos on the Cooliris 3D Wall.

Your thumbnails are quite small and as a result the images you first see are quite blurred, making them approx. twice the current sizes will improve them considerably.

Jesse

[thewillistree]

Hi Jesse,

Thanks for both of these really helpful posts! I'll get cracking on this over the coming week and let you know how things go!

Best wishes,

Paul

Paul,

I created a small rss file on my site called "ci-willis.rss" see below (I prefix all my Cooliris css files with "ci" to keep them together).

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>

<rss version="2.0" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">

<channel>

<atom:icon>http://pickrum.com/PicGen/PC-Genealogy4.png</atom:icon>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/2eastbrookplace.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/2eastbrookplaceTH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/2eastbrookplace.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/3westburyroad.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/3westburyroadTH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/3westburyroad.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/6forgelane.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/6forgelaneTH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/6forgelane.jpg" type="" />

</item>

<item>

<title>TheWillisTree</title>

<link>http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/willis family 1942.jpg</link>

<media:thumbnail url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/willis family 1942TH.jpg" />

<media:content url="http://www.thewillistree.me.uk/genealogy/photos/willis family 1942.jpg" type="" />

</item>

</channel>

</rss>

Note that it references your site photos and not photos copied to mine. Now go to my site at:

http://pickrum.org/tng/ci-main.php?page=Ch...s=feed=ci-c.rss

Assuming you have the Cooliris plug-in installed on your browser, click on "The Willis Tree" and you should see the 4 photos on the Cooliris 3D Wall.

Your thumbnails are quite small and as a result the images you first see are quite blurred, making them approx. twice the current sizes will improve them considerably.

Jesse

[Jesse]

Hi Jesse,

Thanks for both of these really helpful posts! I'll get cracking on this over the coming week and let you know how things go!

Best wishes,

Paul

Paul & Greg,

Check out the Flickr Testing also (new button on menu), there will only be 2 items on the screen but if you click on one of them you will have the option to open an album (the multi page icon). Can't get it to go full screen yet.

http://pickrum.org/tng/ci-main.php?page=Ch...s=feed=ci-c.rss

Jesse

[MasterLaz]

I loaded it on my site at http://wemightberelated.com/ ...still playing with it, but so far so good

[Jay Wilpolt]

I wonder if any of our great coders out there could make this new CoolIris Express Wall any easy alternative to Random Photos via the use of a customized RSS feed and the SQL code to draw from the database.

These links give the needed pieces, but I dont know code how to pull it all together.

http://www.cooliris.com/yoursite/express/

http://www.cooliris.com/developer/reference/media-rss/

http://www.cooliris.com/developer/documentation/?p=content (See the SQL script at the bottom of the page)

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.

Jay