Foxy!
A very foxy feature-packed add-on
For Aeva Media 1.x, SMF Media Gallery 2.x, on SMF 1.1.x and 2.x platforms
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Created and developed by Nao [noisen.com]
Main Features
Some of the coolest features in SMG are exclusive to the Foxy! add-on.
USER PLAYLISTS
- Give membergroups the permission to create user playlists. Allowed users will be able to
create playlists by simply visiting any item page and clicking the Playlists drop menu and then
select "Add to Playlist". Organize your favorites easily and browse them like an album!
JAVASCRIPT+FLASH PLAYLISTS
- Show nice little Flash-powered playlists in these topics, or pretty much anywhere else,
based on user playlists or anything you want (one or more items, one or more albums...)
- Make your own Foxprog (
http://fox.noisen.com) clone in a minute (or ten.) Visit the site
to see a demo of playlists applied to a music website. Remember you can also do this for
video or picture websites, the limit is your imagination!
LINKED TOPICS
- Create (or not) a linked notification topic automatically when adding/editing an album.
You can use this to close per-item comments and have everyone comment on albums instead,
or subscribe to topic notifications, or harness the power of other topic-related mods.
- A linked topic's first message will feature a Javascript+Flash playlist of its related album.
Any new item (or group of items, if you use Mass Upload) will also be added as a new message,
allowing to 'bump' the topic. Each time you create a new album, your preference for linked
topics will be remembered (i.e., the latest board you posted to will be selected by default,
or no album if you choose not to use the feature the previous time.) Whether you locked
the previous topic or not will also be remembered.
SMG BUTTON
- Add a SMG button to the post area, which opens a popup that will allow you to upload
an item and insert it into your message in as few clicks as possible.
EXTERNAL PICTURE EMBEDDING WITH LOCAL THUMBNAIL & PREVIEW
- Embed pictures hosted on another server (Picasa, Photobucket, Imageshack, anything
you can think of). Thumbnails and previews will be created as needed, but the main files
themselves will always stay hosted remotely. For this to work as expected, the Aeva mod needs
to be installed, and it is advised to enable Aeva's "External embedding" feature as well.
RSS FEEDS
- All albums and items now offer RSS feeds to keep you updated for:
* Latest items - user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.
* Latest comments - items, user profiles, albums, album with children, or the entire gallery.
What you can do with playlists
- Click on "Playlists" in the gallery homepage, and select "New Playlist".
- Enter a name, and a description. You're nearly done.
- Go to any item page in the gallery, and if you want to add it to your playlist, select
your playlist at the bottom of the page, and submit. You're done.
- After you've added a few items, just go to your playlist page (use the opportunity to see
how cool it looks), click on Modify, and you can re-order items inside the playlist.
- You can also click on the Comment button to add a personal comment that will show up below
the item in the public playlist. Please note that this comment will appear *below* existing
author comments for the item. Consider they're your chance to explain why you chose to add
that item to your playlist -- just like user lists on Amazon.
- And I'm done.
How to install
- Go to the admin area, upload this zip file through the Package manager and install it.
- Alternatively, you can do it the manly way, by uploading eq.swf to your Themes/default/mgallery/
folder, MGallery-Foxy.php to your Sources folder, and smg_foxy_install.php to your root folder
(where SSI.php is located). Then run it from your browser and delete the file by FTP after that.
- And you're done. I know, making fun of the Amazon tagline is not that funny.
License agreement (no crappy legal details, as usual with me.)
- If you did not purchase this software, please be honest and do it.
- You can modify the source code all you want.
- Whether you modify it or not -- you are not allowed to distribute it.
- If you are thinking of sharing the source code with someone, don't do it. It's not allowed.
- Please do not use this on multiple websites with a single licence. Ask me for authorization if
you are looking into doing it. I'm listening and I'm open.
