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@Tetto: Future development of fb(back to index)Hello Donald,
nice to see that you finally returned to the website - as you can read from the posts, there was quite a development going on in the last weeks.
I hereby suggest that we synchronize our programming efforts from now on. The current version of folderblog ikue release includes some features we definitely should not eliminate again, still there has to be done a lot about optimization, debugging and further extending.
If you agree we use the latest version I am currently working on as a base for future developments.
Hasta luego,
ikue
posted by
ikue on 25 Nov 05 at 3:55 AM
Still hanging in here - have tried out pixelpost but i have decided to stick with folderblog (thanks to your(ikue) enthusiasm and Elwings template. My fotosphere will be going live really soon with a combination of plain html, folderblog and simpleviewer - one thing i need to know - how do i alter folderblog to allow quictime movies to be viewed? i have given it a go very unsuccessfully - is it feasible? (ps this could really cement my loyalty to folderblog ,) )
;) well, I would say my modified folderblog version basically would provide a got starting point for such a thing. In the source code, there are several points where I check whether it is a jpg, png or gif (so far the three supported filetypes). What has to be done is to modify these parts so it accepts Quicktime, plus two extensions:
1) a routine that is able to create thumbnail screenshots from Quicktime files. I am not sure whether something like that exists. You could also insert automatically something like a placeholder image.
2) the HTML output might be the bigger problem. You need to modify your main template to check whether the given file is graphic or video (e.g. by the extension), and then write either an IMG-tag or the appropriate one for displaying a video.
I would say: Quite some work, but definitely not impossible as I already included multi-filetype-support in my fb ikue release since version 1.6 or something.
posted by
ikue on 25 Nov 05 at 6:17 AM
ok - will have a crack at it - i figured disabling the thumbnail generation but there then needs to be an embed tag for the qt file so perhaps it is needs to be different altogether - thanks
Not that different, trust me. I talked about the embed tag in step 2), the most effective way would be in my opinion that in your main template you simply read out the extension of the file that is delivered by fb.php. When it is Quicktime format, simply include an EMBED tag, and otherwise the IMG one.
posted by
ikue on 25 Nov 05 at 7:41 AM
problem is it gets rejected as it is a video file not an image - my brian is hurting :( (as you may have gathered im not a php programmer)
Where does it get rejected? Any precise error message, code line number, or something?
posted by
ikue on 27 Nov 05 at 9:00 AM
Donald, you still didnt answer...
posted by
ikue on 29 Nov 05 at 8:03 AM
btw: elwings template is jowras too :)
posted by erik on 14 Dec 05 at 12:24 PM
