Comments on: A Nice and Simple Photo Gallery Solution for MODx

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sat, 29 May 2010 09:37:43 +0000

Hi microcipcip, yes, that’s what this solution does, using THUMB_WIDTH and THUMB_HEIGHT.

By: microcipcip

microcipcip — Sat, 29 May 2010 06:36:48 +0000

Hi Alistair, I am looking for a way to create thumbs with the same size (for example all thumb squared), no matter if the original image is vertical or horizontal. Because the tutorial is quite long, can you tell me if this is the case?
Thanks

By: Alistair

Alistair — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:53:27 +0000

Hi Guido

utility.php is just a file that I created. It contains various helper functions – which I also created – such as get_tv_value, which is shown above. It’s just my way of getting the TV value.

By: Guido

Guido — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:30:17 +0000

In your story above, you named utility.php, where can i find file.

By: Alistair

Alistair — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:50:14 +0000

Hi Marcus

Maybe instead of using the constants in config.php you could calculate the desired dimensions on the basis of the original ones by dividing both dimensions by your scale factor, whatever it might be. You could also incorporate a maximum into that calculation, probably.

Then you can pass those calculated dimensions to ImageHelper::resizeImage.

Does that make sense?

By: Marcus N

Marcus N — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:43:55 +0000

Thanx alot! ….How ever, I don’t get the resizing of the body_image to work the way I want. The ImageHelper.php seems to beable to do a resizing with correct aspect ratio but then crops it to 300*225 (if landscape). But if I dont want it to have the same aspect ratio on all images, is it possible to instead have a ‘maximum’ size, lets say 300px, on either aspect instead?

all the best.
marcus

By: Alistair Robinson

Alistair Robinson — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:58:21 +0000

Danny and Dimmy: thanks.

I’ve updated the post to point out the MODx version.

By: Dimmy

Dimmy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 07:56:01 +0000

Nice work!

one small thing that this only works on evo from 1.x because in the 09x versions the tv names are the actual names you give them (in the plugin) so this: $upload_file = $_REQUEST['tv'.$gal_var['id']]; would not work in older versions.

Dimmy

By: Danny

Danny — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:08:36 +0000

Great post, really useful solution for a common problem. Keep up the good work!