XML Minislide Show 2.0.5

Flash player 9,0,28,0 or above is required to view this demo, click here to upgrade.   XML Mini Slideshow for Gallery2 and Now Gallery3 Copyright (C) 2009 Wayne Patterson http://www.flashyourweb.com This program is freeware. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. @version 3.0.0 Date: 7-15-2009 @author Wayne Patterson @my best advice use our embed tool. Download The MiniSlideShow communicates with your Gallery2 website via an external XML generator, and is not part of the official Gallery2 package. The MiniSlideShow will start loading gallery item thumbs - after 4 it will start displaying while loading the rest in the background.   New The mini will now load the built-in mediaRss feeds in Gallery3 as well as the Gallery2 slideshow module's mediaRss feeds.

Quick Jump FileList mediaRss Embedding External Variables Transitions swfObject Embed-O-Rator

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FileList:

• minislideshow.swf
• crossdomain.xml
• mediaRss.php
• usage.txt

mediaRss.php Usage You can direct the mini to a specific album by simply supplying the g2_itemId of the album

ie. http://www.yoursite.com/gallery2/mediaRss.php?g2_itemId=49

*Note on Gallery style urls and Flash
Flash interprets &(ampersand) as a break, so you will need to replace them with the unicode equivelent %26 in the url only.
Continue adding your additional vars with the &(ampersand).

You can also take advantage of the Dynamic, Keyword or even the experimental Tags modules via the mode command:

Embedding/Usage
1. Upload minislideshow.swf and your mediaRss(.php) file to your gallery2 base directory.
(if you have previous version of mediaRss.php, there have been some changes)

2. Edit line 30 of your mediaRss(.php) to reflect your setup (default will work for most).

* Hint: If your gallery is embedded the embedUri needs to reflect you CMS' embedUri

3. Place the following in your webpage where you want the mini slideshow to appear: (please consider using the swfObject method described below)

<embed width="160" height="160" align="middle" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" name="minislide" wmode="transparent" quality="high" flashvars="xmlUrl=http://www.yoursite.com/gallery2/mediaRss.php?g2_itemId=32&shuffle=true&showDropShadow=true&delay=3&transInType=Fade&transOutType=Random&showTitle=bottom&roundedMask=true" src="http://www.yoursite.com/gallery2/minislideshow.swf"></ embed >
The above code sample would render something similar to:

Flash player 9,0,115,0 or above is required to view this demo, click here to upgrade.

Edit the g2_itemId in the xmlUrl to reflect the album you want to be displayed and also the site url.
* Hint: If you have url rewrite enabled, you may have to temporarily disable it to see the g2_itemId in your album's url.
* Hint: To allow fullscreen mode, add allowFullscreen="true" to your embed code. - Must have the latest FlashPlayer(9,0,115,0) to have wmode="transparent" and allowFullscreen="true" at the same time.


External Variables(case sensitive)

Add your external variables to your xmlUrl separated with an ampersand (&) ie.
xmlUrl=http://yoursite.com/gallery2/mediaRss.php?g2_itemId=1486 & shuffle=true & showDropShadow=true & delay=3
& transInType=Fade & transOutType=Random

Available Transitions(case sensitive)

Embedding with swfObject

swfObject uses javascript to sidestep IE7 and Opera's "Click here to activate and use this control" blunder by writing the flash object to the page after it fully loads.

Its the preferred method to embed flash these days.

1st. Include swfObject in the head of your site.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.yoursite.com/swfobject.js"></script>

<!-- first create your target div --> < div id = "targetDivId"> maybe add some alternate content </ div > <!-- Then call swfObject to replace the contents of your target div --> < script type = "text/javascript"> // <![CDATA[ /* swfObject requires 6 params - url to the swf, width, height, flash version required, and background color */ var so = new SWFObject ( "http://www.yoursite.com/gallery2/minislideshow.swf" , "objectId" , "180" , "180" , "9.0.115.0" , "ffffff" ); so . addParam ( "flashVars" , "xmlUrl=http://www.yoursite.com/gallery2/mediaRss.php?g2_itemId=8792&shuffle=true&delay=5&noLink=true" ); so . addParam ( "wmode" , "transparent" ); // Transparent background so . addParam ( "allowFullscreen" , "true" ); // Only necessary if useFull is used so . addParam ( "allowScriptAccess" , "always" ); so . write ( "targetDivId" ); // The actual writing to the target div // ]]> </ script >

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