Toader Gallery Documentation

Toader::Gallery handles image galleries for Toader.

Each Toader directory can have one gallery.

Below are the common variables used for in this POD.

$srcPath - The base source image path from the config.
$srcURL - The base URL for the source image from the config.
$outputPath - The base output path from the config.
$outputURL - The base URL for the output from the config.
$gdir - The gallery directory formed as below.
$image - The filename of a image, with the path part removed.

The gallery directory part is formed as below.

$srcPath/$gdir/$image

It is just the gallery directory is the the path between the srcPath and a image.

The following are recognized image extensions currently.

jpg
jpeg
gif
png

Configuration Storage

The config for a Toader::Gallery is $toaderDir.'/gallery.ini' .

Gallery INI Variables

outputPath

This is the output path to use for where output to.

This is required.

outputURL

This is the output URL to use for when creating the required non-relative URLs.

None of the methods will append a '/', so if one is needed, it should be provided here.

This is required.

srcPath

This is the path to find images under.

This is required.

srcURL

This is the URL that source images can be found under.

None of the methods will append a '/', so if one is needed, it should be provided here.

This is required.

renderUpdateDetails

If image details should be updated upon render being called.

This defaults to '0'.

This is optional.

renderUpdateIndexes

If image gallery directory index should be updated upon render being called.

This defaults to '0'.

This is optional.

renderUpdateScaled

If the scaled images should be updated upon render being called.

This defaults to '0'.

This is optional.

resolutionSmall

The resolution to default to for the small image.

This is a integer that represents what the largest resolution for either X or Y a scalled image may have.

The default is '200'.

This is optional.

resolutionLarge

The resolution to default to for the large image.

This is a integer that represents what the largest resolution for either X or Y a scalled image may have.

The default is '1024'.

This is optional.

Page Template

Toader::Gallery uses a different page template than other modules. The template used is 'pageGallery' and the default is as below.

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

  <head>
    <title> [== $c->{_}->{siteTitle} ==] </title>
    <LINK href="[== $g->cssLocation ==]" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
  </head>

  <body>

    <div id="header" >
      [== $g->top ==]
    </div>

    <div id="location" >
      [== $g->locationbar( $locationID ) ==]
      [== $g->locationSub ==]
    </div>

    <div>

    <div id="content" >
      [== $content ==]
    </div>
	
    <br><br><br>
	
    <div id="copyright">
      [==
        my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst)=localtime(time);
        $year=$year+1900;
        return "Copyright ".$year." ".$c->{_}->{owner};
       ==]
    </div>

  </body>
</html>

Below is what is passed to it, for both updateIndex and updateDetails.

toader - The L<Toader> object.
g - The L<Toader::Render::General> object.
self - The L<Toader::Render::Entry> object.
obj - The L<Toader::Entry> object.
c - The L<Config::Tiny> holding the Toader config.
dir - The R2R path for the Toader directory the gallery is for.
gdir - The current gallery directory.
content - The content for the page.

For updateDetails, the one below is also passed to it.

image - The name of the image for this page.

Rendering

Rendering is handled by Toader::Render::Gallery.

Upon Toader::Render::Gallery->render being called, it checks if it should render any thing.

renderUpdateDetails
renderUpdateIndexes
renderUpdateScaled

The above gallery config settings are used to check for if it should render any thing. If any of those are set to 1, it calls the related methods.

updateDetails

This method updates the detailed images page.

The detail pages are writen out to $outputPath.'/.toader-gallery/html/'.$gdir.'/'.$image.'.html' .

The content of the page is pulled from Toader::Render::General->galleryImageLarge .

updateIndexes

This method updates indexes of a directory.

The index pages are writen out to $outputPath.'/.toader/html/'.$gdir.'/index.html' .

When joining the list of sub directories and images, directories always come first.