PBase

I would like (again) for the slideshow option to show more than 30 images AND the possibility to show more than one gallery. Is there any development going on in Pbase these days?
-Anna

You can make your own list of photos to show in the slideshow and take them from all or any of your galleries; you only need the photo identifier number that pbase assigns to your photos, separated by a comma, and I've got over 50 photos in my slideshow (I think). For this to work, you need to put the slideshow code in your user description dialog box on the gallery edit page.

here's the code:
SLIDESHOW(81435401,.... etc ...., delay=2)

delay can be whatever number you choose and note that the numbers must be separated by the commas

HTH,
Mary in SW Florida USA

You can also just make a new gallery, make it unviewable to the public and then refer to it in whatever gallery you want the slideshow to appear.

In my case, I made a gallery called "Frontslides" and copy the images I want to that gallery and then in my root gallery (Where my slideshow is) I add in the html description area the following code:

SLIDESHOW(frontslides,size=original,delay=4,loop=yes,link=none)

The good thing is I can add and subtract and rearrange the images as much as I like ...as you would do with any other gallery, and this always gives a fresh face to my slideshow without having to dig up the photo identifier number and such.

Anna is correct though, unless they've changed the code recently there is a limit of 30 pictures shown in the slideshow. Of course you can have as many as you like in the gallery with the slideshow photos, but the javascript itself only shows the first 30 shots. Either watch your slideshow all the way through to see that it only rotates 30 pictures or simply view the source code in your browser and you will see as Anna stated that the javascript only has 30 image ids.

So unless they've already added the code, there is still a 30 image limit. I had a few other requests for the slideshow in an older post + the wish for more than 30 pictures. Hope one of the developers at Pbase finds some time for this some day!

EDIT: Here's my old thread: http://form.pbase.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35284

regards,

Flemming

Mary, are all your 50 images showing in the slideshow?

annayu wrote:........ are all ...... 50 images showing in the slideshow?

annaya,
Speaking for myself (with only a brief understanding of the situation) ----
If you manually load each image number desired, into your slideshow table, and the list goes over the 30 image restriction (which I belief is a default for just the automatic slideshow), all the photos will run.
I have 42 images on my "manually loaded" slideshow and they do all show .
http://www.pbase.com/10kzoomfz/wild_monarch_07proj_eclose1
I would suspect though that there is an upper limit somewhere. I also belief that the 30 image limit and the fact that administrators do not hint or talk about the 'manual load' process to get around the 30 image restrictions, is probably because it would put a heavy load on the servers if many knew and used it. This would only severely exacerbate the very often sl-o-o-ow Pbase, of recent.
(As an aside:- I would dump my slideshow in a second if they came out and said "too many subscribers were using over 30 and it's a hindrance to the function of the system.")

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10kzoomfz
You can't see the forest when you sneeze!

edit: spelling error

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I'll give it a try one of these days.
-Anna

It's only loading one image at a time so if we use 3 or 300 images should make no difference to the load on the system.
I was unaware the "automatic" limit of 30 could be worked around by typing in image ids manually. Will give it a go one of these days!

Flemming

I managed to overlook the 30 photo limit on photos and did my slideshow by manually typing the string and... well, I have a string of 50 photos. It's a BIG pain in the ass to change the list or edit the list, but I've figured out a few workarounds by using a text editor to maintain my list and so forth.
Now that the fact that more than 30 will show up, I'm sure the admins will "fix" it....oh, well, at least it's more elegant here than over at Flickr (where getty images is now trolling openly for stock photos -- http://tinyurl.com/5ldmky )

Mary in SW Florida

I have created a photo list generator that will create a list of all the photo ids for a gallery

Check out:

http://www.tinderboxdesign.com/photographyPBaseImageList.php

I'm mucking around improving my php and javascript skills creating web based interfaces to simplify normal pbase tasks, next one will be image reordering... Hey PBase give me a job!!!

Thanks for that neat little script, that's very handy indeed for our slideshows. Great work!

regards,

Flemming

flemmingbo wrote:Thanks for that neat little script, that's very handy indeed for our slideshows. Great work!

Thanks

By the way your photos are really great. Any tips / techniques for taking and making really great landscape photos?