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MarcelSpijker Member
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Hi,

I want to use cooliris (www.cooliris.com) together with zenphoto.
As zenphoto has all the thumb and image files i think it should be possible to make it work, but i have no understanding of xml.
Can someone help me to set it up correctly?
If i use the tool provided by cooliris i only seen the thumbs scaled up instead of the good image.

Comments

  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Zenphoto 1.2.3's rss feed actually provides optional Media RSS support (see the options) which is actually what Cooliris requires.

    I am not sure if it works correctly as I do not really use that. I had posted a test request for that about two weeks ago but no one replied.

    I tested that Cooliris stuff once before but it slowed Safari that down that I threw it out as it was more "playstuff" for me anyway. If you want to do some testing with the feed to help to get that work that will be welcome.
  • MarcelSpijker Member
    I will look into the media rss then and see what i can use.

    If i have anything useful ill let you know. Good or bad :)
  • pedroserano Member
    alas, I am running Zp 1.2.3 with media rss enabled and piclens will not recognize the feed.

    piclens will recognize supraform's modified zenphoto rss, but it's out of date, and none of the photos actually load.
    http://www.superoforma.com/rss.zip
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    Thanks, I know, the media rss support is currently kind of beta. Fixing is on the list.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    I got the media rss now working with Cooliris. It will be in tonight's nightly. I did only test with Safari 3.1 on Mac and here the Cooliris icon is mislocated way below the thumbs. Don't know if and how I can work on that. Anyway it does work fine (except for video and audio of course) if I use the Cooliris button of Safari itself.
  • woadlined Member
    I can't wait to try it out!
  • tonyskit Member
    I recently updated to the nigtly (07.03.09) and found my old modified media RSS not working. As I tried to fix it I found the API was changed a little bit, since I am not a programmer it was to hard for me to fix it again )))

    So I started testing the new media RSS function: the new RSS provides <media:thumbnail> and <media:content> only the full sized image, wich causes the app run slow and crash.

    I used this code to provide adjustable media thumbnail and image size:
    `

    <?php echo '<media:thumbnail url="http://'.$host.WEBPATH.'/'.ZENFOLDER.'/i.php?a='.$images['folder'].'&i='.$images['filename'].'&s=240" />'; ?>

    <?php echo '<media:content url="http://'.$host.WEBPATH.'/'.ZENFOLDER.'/i.php?a='.$images['folder'].'&i='.$images['filename'].'&h=1080" />'; ?>

    `

    Due to changings in RSS API the old script provides access to all recent photos in the gallery, rather than to the pictures in the actual album.

    Is there any way to do something like this with the new API?
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    You are right, the thumbnail image is set too big for media rss and the content one probably should not be the full image. I will try to change that.

    On standard themes the feed changes depending on which page you are (I don't think it was any other way before). The standard way is index.php = all recent images, album.php and image.php = recent images of the current album. You can easily change that, there are several options for the rss link. Please refer to the theming tutorial and the rss link functions on the functions guide.
  • tonyskit Member
    thanx, I'll try to find out how the theming works in this case
  • tofo Member
    Hi,

    just found that subject here, because I also wondered, why Cooliris isn't generating a gallery. Media RSS is activated, but whenever I view the RSS feed, I only see the album title, no link to images is in the XML.

    Anyone got an idea?

    Regards, Thomas
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    What version of Zenphoto? Anyway, please try the nightly build as some validating issues have been corrected there recently.
  • tofo Member
    Hi, the version I'm using is 1.2.4 [3716] (Official Build). Do I have to use the whole nightly build or is it quite enough to use rss.php?

    Regards, Thomas
  • sbillard Member
    It does not look like there are changes in rss.php that are dependent on the rest of the SVN. So, give it a try. If you get errors, then you will need the whole nightly build.
  • cjdutil Member
    I just installed the newest nightly build and I still can't get cooliris to work. The cooliris button is grayed out in firefox and IE. I've read all the post on cooliris (I think) and I'm really not getting anywhere. Can anyone help? what info would you need?
  • cjdutil Member
    UPDATE: I redownloaded just the rss.php file from the nightly builds and now it works fine with cooliris. not sure what got tangled up but it's fixed now.
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    It is also necessary to enable the "media rss" checkbox on the options.
  • Unknown
    Hello,

    I just tried enabling MediaRSS but Cooliris doesn't work at all, is there a patch or am i missing something ?

    Regards,
    Ulises
  • acrylian Administrator, Developer
    I don't know as I don't use Cooliris. But please try the nightly as there were some validation errors encountered in the 1.2.5 rss feed that meanwhile have been fixed. (the nightly feed file should generally work with 1.2.5 but has not been tested).
  • Moderne Kunst Member
    Cooliris works in my case, i use 1.2.5
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