My problem, i need a photo album in my home page, not the thumbnail of image. How can I set the Flash view Image permanently to my front page?

please help.

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abdulhaleems commented
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berdir
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- your images? images of album x? all images ?

- Do yoo need only the flash view on the front page or additionaly to something else, for example the normal drupal frontpage?

As a starting point, it is quite easy to set a flash view of a user or album as frontpage, just save the url you want at /admin/settings/site-information. Everything more complex is currently not easily possible, as the flash site is currently not themable nor aviable as a block.

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abdulhaleems commented

Thanks for the reply,
I have some other contents, but i need this flash gallery at the top of all contents on the content section. Is it possible?
Actually it is for a news site, so it need to show 5 top stories of the day. The top stories will design as images with related photos. If not possible, is there any other module?

Thanks.

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berdir
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This is currently not possible without coding.

You could have a look at the function "_photos_flash_swf" in photos.page.inc and use it as a start to create your own block/page where you include the flash gallery. This should not be too complicated.

I am however not sure if a flash gallery is the right way to present text/nodes as it is in my opinion harder to read and maintain. Another way would be using jQuery/Ajax to load the text/image and display it as normal html.

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Thanks, i will try.

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Yes, you can call _photos_flash_swf (), you only need to specify a xml address, it is very easy.

include_once drupal_get_path('module','photos').'/photos.page.inc';
$xml = '/photos/user/flash/1/xml'; // album: node/%nid/photos/view/xml, user: /photos/user/flash/%uid/xml
print _photos_flash_swf($xml);
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abdulhaleems commented
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Sorry, i am very new to drupal & PHP. But i tried my maximum.

Finally i done by adding this code as a block by using PHP filter, but it only showing flash player without image. I think the xml codes are generating by 'photos_flash.tpl.php'. How can i specify this XML to '_photos_flash_swf($xml)'. I don't have a normal XML file.

Please give a solution.

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berdir
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$xml is the *path* to the xml file, as described be eastn, you can display either the images of an album or an user

"/node/%nid/photos/view/xml" (%nid = id of the album, you can find this out by looking ad the url while displaying or editing the album... node/%nid)

or

"/photos/user/flash/%uid/xml (where %uid is the id of the user)

I'd suggest you to create an album per day and display the images of that album

PS: perhabs you have to change the path if your drupal base ist not at / (for example domain.org/drupal instead of domain.org). Try to open the path directly.. if you get a xml file it should work

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