A work around Phoca Slideshow for Multiple Slideshows
Posted: 03 Feb 2011, 20:04
Hey Everyone!
I posted on hear asking about phoca slideshow and not being able to use it for multiple articles. Jan posted back that you can only use it for one, because of the javascript. Today I was on the JED and found Simple Picture Slideshow Plugin. In the plugin parameters I was able to set my default folder for my images, which I pointed to the one for Phoca Gallery (images/phocagallery/Photos). All have to is point the plugin tag in the article to the folder where the images are displayed (ex: myphotos/2010/pool/), so when the plugin code is outputted to this directory images/phocagallery/Photos/myphotos/2010/pool
I am able to have multiple slideshows. I have this also working on my frontpage for four articles and everyone has a slideshow in them and they all work. This way is not as easy as the phoca slideshow button method, but it works if you need multiple slideshows. There is nothing wrong with Phoca Slideshow, just that you can't have multiple slideshows.
I just thought I would share with everyone. I hope this helps.
Chris
I posted on hear asking about phoca slideshow and not being able to use it for multiple articles. Jan posted back that you can only use it for one, because of the javascript. Today I was on the JED and found Simple Picture Slideshow Plugin. In the plugin parameters I was able to set my default folder for my images, which I pointed to the one for Phoca Gallery (images/phocagallery/Photos). All have to is point the plugin tag in the article to the folder where the images are displayed (ex: myphotos/2010/pool/), so when the plugin code is outputted to this directory images/phocagallery/Photos/myphotos/2010/pool
I am able to have multiple slideshows. I have this also working on my frontpage for four articles and everyone has a slideshow in them and they all work. This way is not as easy as the phoca slideshow button method, but it works if you need multiple slideshows. There is nothing wrong with Phoca Slideshow, just that you can't have multiple slideshows.
I just thought I would share with everyone. I hope this helps.
Chris