Gauging interest in a module to add javascript effects to a View
Hi there, folks. I'm a PHP/jQuery developer interested in possibly creating a module to allow for easy creation of Views that behave like this page:
http://zachshipley.com/portfolio
(Sorry if this is a bit of a plug, it's just the easiest way to explain what the module would do)
Essentially it would add various Javascript effects to Views rows upon loading (either standard page load or AJAX load). Additionally, links within a Views row would redirect to an AJAX call and load full nodes within a block, as they do in the above page. I'm asking this here because for myself, I can just add these things to themes for clients without too much difficulty. I'm wondering if others would find this to be a useful time-saver.
It differs from the Views Slideshow module in that the purpose is to use a standard view as the starting point for links which will load in separate blocks. Views Slideshow also pre-loads all content and is not intended to load content by user direction (except for the hover function which only temporarily delays the slideshow).
It's also different from the BornFree module, which is not built with Views in mind (yet) and does not load content via AJAX (as far as I know).
Has anyone encountered a module that does this, more or less? I've looked pretty hard but I really want to avoid redundancy. Also, would anyone find this useful? Thanks for any input y'all can give.
You can probably get close
You can probably get close with the rotor banner module (would require some theming).
Haven't seen it
Thanks for the input, nevets. I somehow missed that module in my searching. It does seem pretty similar to what I want to create, so I'll have to think about this. It's still a bit too "slideshowy" for what I want to do, and it doesn't load via AJAX, but it's very interesting. Maybe something to think about would that my idea would work best for fairly large Views where pre-loading every node's content may not be prudent. Still, it's seeming to be something with a smaller niche than I was thinking.
Another thought is to
Another thought is to approach the maintainer of rotor banner about the possibility of expanding that module.
Views slideshow: Dynamic Display Block Module
Hi,
I released the views_slideshow_ddblock module this week. It has similar functionality as the dynamic display block module, but now as a views_slideshow plugin.
One of the planned features of both modules is to load content via Ajax calls.
For the Dynamic display block module this is working on my testserver.
Happy to work together to add this functionality to the both the dynamic display block module and the views_slideshow_ddblock module.
Have a look at the demos of the modules at http://ddblock.myalbums.biz to get an impression.
Greetings,
Philip Blaauw
Maintainer ddblock and views-slideshow_ddblock modules