Gallery category list

[Frost]

Hi,

How can I get my category list to appear like the one on the demo page? (thumbnails with shadow boxes with space between each category?) Mine appear with just a thumbnail, no space between each thumbnail and without the shadow box look.

I'd like mine to look like this list: https://www.phoca.cz/demo/gallery-categories

Thanks.

[Jan]

Hi, see:
https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... tart-guide

https://www.phoca.cz/documents/2-phoca-g ... -menu-item

Jan

[Frost]

Well those are the two documents I previously reviewed to get them to look like that, and I now know I was doing it right. I click the save button and the changes are retained in the parameters, however, no change is made to the actual layout. The gallerys completely ignore the parameter changes. I changed some other more obvious parameters to see if the effects would show up and they don't, nothing changes.

It would seem there is more going on here than my inability to read a manual.

[caro84g]

Hi,

could you please check your menu item and then see 'components - parameters' (2nd box on the right), to see whether or not the global config is used.

Or do you use the phoca gallery plugin to display the categories?

Regards, Carolien

[Frost]

Uuummm.... I'm not really to be honest if I'm using the pluggin or not. I'm assuming I'm using the Component to add the gallery. Here's what I did:

I goto 'Components --> 'Phoca Gallery' ---> 'Control Panel'

From there I then create the Categories in the from the 'Categories' menu. In my article that I wanted the gallery's to appear in, I added the following line of code (I removed the squiggly brackets in this post):

phocagallery view=categories

So, when I navagate to 'Components --> 'Phoca Gallery' ---> 'Control Panel', there is only 'Parameters' and 'help' in the top right corner of the screen. If I open 'Parameters', there is a header that says 'Global Configuration' for the Phoca Gallery settings, which is what I changed then hit the save button to exit the screen.

I hope that makes sense.

[caro84g]

Hi,

yes you're using the plugin.

To show the shadows add the following in the article:
{phocagallery view=categories|imagecategoriessize=smallshadow}

for more ways of displaying the plugin: https://www.phoca.cz/documents/14-phoca- ... ery-plugin

Regards, Carolien

[Frost]

Ok.

This is going to sound like a dumb question but how do I know if I'm using the pluggin or the component and why would I use one over the other? I thought with all the features I had installed I was using the component. Do I have the component installed and just don't know it or aren't implementing it properly into the article?

Thanks for the help.

[caro84g]

Hi,

the component only works from the menu item. So you can create a menu item of the type 'phoca gallery' and a subtype, and then all categories or all images from a category are shown.

If you get the pictures from an article using 'phocagallery view=...' you use the phocagallery plugin.

Regards, Carolien

[Frost]

Oh, well maybe I'm doing this wrong then.

I have a menu item that was linked to an exsiting article. That article is what I put the code in to present the gallery. Maybe I should have done it differently?

btw, I have introduced the change you suggested and did get the shadow box but its a little ugly.
I've attached a small screen shot.

[caro84g]

Hi,

it's easier to create a menu item of the type 'phoca gallery category list layout'. This has an advantage over the article way, because now itemid's are created, which doesn't give any 404's - with the article display 404's could be a problem.

For the offset of the images, try with the template rhuk_milkyway.

Regards, Carolien