modx CMS

Instructions

Installation is pretty straight forward:

• 1. Extract the contents of the zip file to your computer
• 2. FTP to your server an go to the modx installation folder
• 3. Put the assets folder to the site root and the files will go to correct place
• 4. Make the assets/galleries/ folder writable (CHMOD 777 unless you are in phpSuExec environment, in that case 755)
• 5. Close your FTP program and go to the MODx manager
• 6. Create a new snippet called "MaxiGallery" and paste the contents of maxigallery.txt to it
• 7. Call the snippet on some document, check the available parameters at MODx Wiki.
• 8. Go to the page that has the snippet call and you should see "Manage pictures" -button in there.
  • note that you must be logged into the manager and have rights to edit the document (unless you have defined webusers/groups who can manage the callery and you are logged in at front-end)
• 9. Upload some images to the gallery and see the results.

Extra info:
You can create new language files for the gallery too. Create lang_en.php in the maxigallery lang folder and slidebox/slimbox/lightbox_lang_en.js in the slidebox/slimbox/lightbox folder, where "en" is the key for your lang file. After this, use it in the &lang snippet parameter.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It depends on your server settings that how many images you can upload at a time and how big. The image masking process for example is very slow and you might get a "Maximum execution time of NN seconds exceeded" -error message, if you are trying to upload many images at the same time with imagemasking on.. or if the images are large. Also when using big images, you may get "Memory Size Exhausted" -error as the image processing takes alot of memory too. These errors are not errors in the snippet code, they are caused by server settings. MaxiGallery script tries to use ini_set to increase the execution time and memory limit if needed, but it cannot do it if php is running in safe mode. (I have my setup on a safe_mode enabled server with 15seconds of execution time and 30sec max_input_time and 32Mb memory limit. It can handle 10 images at a time taken with 4MP camera, but with image masking on I can kill it pretty easily)

So, Check these values from php.ini:

max_execution_time, this is the maximum execution time allowed for each script, in seconds (it takes quite some time for maxigallery script to process the images if there are many of them and many imaging "filters" used).
max_input_time, this is the maximum time each script may spend parsing request data, in seconds.
memory_limit, this is the maximum amount of memory in megabytes that a script may consume (maxigallery keeps the images in memory while it makes thumbnails etc).
post_max_size this is the maximum size of POST data in megabytes that PHP will accept (the pictures travel in the post data).
upload_max_filesize this is the maximum allowed size for uploaded files in megabytes.

These settings can also be configured from Apache, so you might want to see if the following can be found from your httpd.conf:

php_admin_value upload_max_filesize Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
php_admin_value post_max_size Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
php_admin_value memory_limit Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
LimitRequestBody Same as post_max_size php setting, but for apache.
UpdatesNew version with many fixes and some new features, see the introduction.

Instructions

Installation is pretty straight forward:

• 1. Extract the contents of the zip file to your computer
• 2. FTP to your server an go to the modx installation folder
• 3. Put the assets folder to the site root and the files will go to correct place
• 4. Make the assets/galleries/ folder writable (CHMOD 777 unless you are in phpSuExec environment, in that case 755)
• 5. Close your FTP program and go to the MODx manager
• 6. Create a new snippet called "MaxiGallery" and paste the contents of maxigallery.txt to it
• 7. Call the snippet on some document, check the available parameters at MODx Wiki.
• 8. Go to the page that has the snippet call and you should see "Manage pictures" -button in there.
  • note that you must be logged into the manager and have rights to edit the document (unless you have defined webusers/groups who can manage the callery and you are logged in at front-end)
• 9. Upload some images to the gallery and see the results.

Extra info:
You can create new language files for the gallery too. Create lang_en.php in the maxigallery lang folder and slidebox/slimbox/lightbox_lang_en.js in the slidebox/slimbox/lightbox folder, where "en" is the key for your lang file. After this, use it in the &lang snippet parameter.

IMPORTANT NOTE: It depends on your server settings that how many images you can upload at a time and how big. The image masking process for example is very slow and you might get a "Maximum execution time of NN seconds exceeded" -error message, if you are trying to upload many images at the same time with imagemasking on.. or if the images are large. Also when using big images, you may get "Memory Size Exhausted" -error as the image processing takes alot of memory too. These errors are not errors in the snippet code, they are caused by server settings. MaxiGallery script tries to use ini_set to increase the execution time and memory limit if needed, but it cannot do it if php is running in safe mode. (I have my setup on a safe_mode enabled server with 15seconds of execution time and 30sec max_input_time and 32Mb memory limit. It can handle 10 images at a time taken with 4MP camera, but with image masking on I can kill it pretty easily)

So, Check these values from php.ini:

max_execution_time, this is the maximum execution time allowed for each script, in seconds (it takes quite some time for maxigallery script to process the images if there are many of them and many imaging "filters" used).
max_input_time, this is the maximum time each script may spend parsing request data, in seconds.
memory_limit, this is the maximum amount of memory in megabytes that a script may consume (maxigallery keeps the images in memory while it makes thumbnails etc).
post_max_size this is the maximum size of POST data in megabytes that PHP will accept (the pictures travel in the post data).
upload_max_filesize this is the maximum allowed size for uploaded files in megabytes.

These settings can also be configured from Apache, so you might want to see if the following can be found from your httpd.conf:

php_admin_value upload_max_filesize Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
php_admin_value post_max_size Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
php_admin_value memory_limit Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
LimitRequestBody Same as post_max_size php setting, but for apache.
UpdatesNew version with lots of updates, see the introduction.

Instructions

Installation is pretty straight forward:

• 1. Extract the contents of the zip file to your computer
• 2. FTP to your server an go to the modx installation folder
• 3. Copy all exept maxigallery.txt to assets/snippets/maxigallery/ -folder
• 4. Create a new folder assets/galleries/ and make it writable (CHMOD 0666 or 0777)
• 5. Close your FTP program and go to the MODx manager
• 6. Create a new snippet called "MaxiGallery" and paste the contents of maxigallery.txt to it
• 7. Call the snippet on some document, check the available parameters at the start of the snippet
  • There are some example snippet calls at the demo site
  • You have to call the snippet on an uncached page using "cached" snippet call i.e MaxiGallery, because the automated javascript/css registration in MODx requires this for now. If you don't call it this way, sometimes when you view the lightbox enabled galleries, the images may just open in a new window instead of the lightbox.
• 8. Go to the page that has the snippet call and you should see "Manage pictures" -button in there (if you did not set it off in the snippet call ofcourse ;))
  • note that you must be logged into the manager and have rights to edit the document (unless you have defined webusers/groups who can manage the callery and you are logged in at front-end)
• 9. Upload some images to the gallery and see the results.

Extra info:

• You can create new language files for the gallery too. Create lang_en.php in the maxigallery folder and slidebox_lang_en.js in the slidebox folder, where "en" is the key for your lang file. After this, use it in the $language setting at the snippet.
• You can change the look of the lightbox by editing the maxigallery/slidebox/style.css -file. You can also change the overlay color of it and the loading images by creating new ones and defining them in your slidebox_lang_xx.js -file

IMPORTANT NOTE: It depends on your server settings that how many images you can upload at a time and how big. The image masking process for example is very slow and you might get a "Maximum execution time of NN seconds exceeded" -error message, if you are trying to upload many images at the same time with imagemasking on.. or if the images are large. Also when using big images, you may get "Memory Size Exhausted" -error as the image processing takes alot of memory too. These errors are not errors in the snippet code, they are caused by server settings. MaxiGallery script tries to use ini_set to increase the execution time and memory limit if needed, but it cannot do it if php is running in safe mode. (I have my setup on a safe_mode enabled server with 15seconds of execution time and 30sec max_input_time and 32Mb memory limit. It can handle 10 images at a time taken with 4MP camera, but with image masking on I can kill it pretty easily)

So, Check these values from php.ini:


max_execution_time, this is the maximum execution time allowed for each script, in seconds (it takes quite some time for maxigallery script to process the images if there are many of them and many imaging "filters" used).
max_input_time, this is the maximum time each script may spend parsing request data, in seconds.
memory_limit, this is the maximum amount of memory in megabytes that a script may consume (maxigallery keeps the images in memory while it makes thumbnails etc).
post_max_size this is the maximum size of POST data in megabytes that PHP will accept (the pictures travel in the post data).
upload_max_filesize this is the maximum allowed size for uploaded files in megabytes.

These settings can also be configured from Apache, so you might want to see if the following can be found from your httpd.conf:

php_admin_value upload_max_filesize Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
php_admin_value post_max_size Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
php_admin_value memory_limit Sets the corresponding php setting, see above.
LimitRequestBody Same as post_max_size php setting, but for apache.
Updates-