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1. Mambots Installers Messages System SS Joomla installation From the main toolbar select G Templates Site INSTALLERS gt Components Browse to the b Templates Admin com expsose zip file you downloaded above and b Languages click the UpLoap Fite amp INsrALL button If everything goes well you will see the Expos fa Modules Upload component Success screen Click CowriNuE D Cou Ms to complete the installation lt Upload component Success AU Expose This is an open source flash gallery from http www slooz com This can downloaded from http www gotgtek com t Continue Now continue by adding a menu to the Expos component and test the default installation without changing any settings If the gallery shows in the front end the first thing you need to change is the default password which is manager Log into the back end select Components gt Expose gt Manace algums and click on the Chance PASSWORD button Enter the new password Now use your new one to log in Change the configuration properties as your taste to fit the template design and finally start uploading your own photos Have fun but keep reading this manual for further information 2 6 File amp directory permissions Depending on the changes you re gonna apply some files or directories have to be writable by the PHP engine The package contains a little check script to verify this for you 10 www gotgtek com User A2. 8 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 2 Installation and Customization 2 1 Quick install Since the manual has increased in size I ve added a quick install overview for the component For more information you ll need to read the large chapters It looks quite a job but this is an overview for a safe installation update Good luck e Verify if your host has the requirements see 1 4 e Download the latest release see 2 3 e When updating backup your img xml folders so you can restore it later see 2 4 e Make a safety backup of Joomla see 2 8 e If updating uninstall the old component see 2 7 e Install the component using the Joomla backend installer see 2 5 e Create a component menu link see 2 11 e Check frontend functionality with the default images from installation e Change default password see 2 5 e Change configuration see 3 4 e Upload your images or restore previous gallery contents see 2 8 2 2 RC3 RC4 RC3 uses Joomla authentication to access the manager In RC4 you ll need to login in the manager with a password manager after logging into the back end But in RC4 you can login into the manager without accessing the back end at joomla root components com expose expose manager manager html so everyone who has the password can manage the photos from there RC3 front end doesn t use
3. e Before updating always make a backup see 2 8 e Before installing check if the required settings and libraries are installed see 1 4 e After installation change the Manager s default password see 3 2 e Remove the lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose manager check_system php or any other file e g phpinfo php giving info about your server s config It gives hackers all info to access your server e Never leave php files chmodded to 777 This enables edition of the file by all visitors and hackers The Joomla standard chmod of 466 for files and 755 for directories should be just fine if all requirements see 1 4 are fulfilled e General Joomla Security overview can be found on http forum joomla org index php topic 8 1058 0 html 2 11 Displaying in front end Expos is Components added to the front end of Component O your Joomla n installation by simply adding a O Component type menu item and pointing it to the Expos component Login to the administrative back end of your Joomla installation From the main toolbar select the menu to which you wish to add your gallery link Select New from the Menu Manager page that is e currently displayed On the New Menu Item page select Component and then ius choose Expos from the list of installed components To view your gallery browse to the front end of your site and select the new menu item you created The s
4. Select a photo and click here to create and assign an album thumbnail Use these button to move albums and collections up or down in the list 20 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 4 2 Settings of the Album Manager The layout of the Album Manager is shown below In general Collections and Albums are managed on the left and Media is managed on the right The sections below will refer to these sections Before you start using Expos you must make some decisions regarding the size and quality of the images and videos for your site In addition Expos displays pictures in 3 sizes e Small fitting thumbnails displayed in the image strip e Normal Fitting the image displayed when you click on a thumbnail in the image strip e Large fitting the pop up image displayed when you click the magnifying glass icon on the Expos toolbar By default this function is disabled Album List Media List ManageAlbums ManageAlbums ManageMeda iwi ManageMeda iwi Album Thumb Preview Media Description MediaThumb Preview Album Description Create Albums Upload Buttons Since the small and normal fitting boxes are displayed within the template determining the most appropriate sizes will certainly affected by the template you are using as well as the available server space and bandwidth 4 2 1 Photo sett
5. 1 Login to the Administrator backend 2 Goto Menu gt Main Menu 3 Select the Expose component link or create one 1 Click on the New icon 2 Select Component and click Next on top 3 You will reach the page called Add Menu Item Component Fill the following values to the form Name Expose Component Expose and leave the other options to default value 4 Click the Save icon Once that is done move the Expose item all the way to the top replacing the Home menu 7 1 3 Why does Expose uses AC RunActiveContent js Expose html php requires the code in AC RunActiveContent js to run Using this Javascript file prevents the Flash movie from requiring a click before it becomes active in Internet Explorer This script has been prepared by Adobe itselves See http www adobe com devnet activecontent articles devletter html for more information about this script 37 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 7 2 Gallery front end 7 2 1 l activated large fitting box but they don t show up All pictures uploaded before activating the Create large image box don t have a large picture stored on the server because Large fitting box they are only created during upload After updating this setting goo 700 you ll need to remove and re upload the old pictures to create VI Create large image them 7 2 2 FLV movies don t
6. 100k flv wedding 500k flv etc and a similarly for the thumbnail file th wedding jpg The 100k and 500k in the example denote the bitrate of each stream 28 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Refer to the Customization section to see how you can modify the default locations if you want to serve dynamic content or use a folder structure that you prefer 5 2 XML structure Read this section if you will use a text editor to modify your albums or if you want to serve dynamic content Your albums are defined succinctly in albums xml Only basic information such as titles and locations of the content XML files etc is specified there Here s a simple example and a discussion of its structure lt xml version 1 0 encoding UTF 8 gt lt expose version 2 1 gt lt collection gt collection _mngid 1 gt lt title gt A collection lt title gt album mngid 2 lt title gt An album lt title gt lt thumb gt lt url gt thumb jpg lt url gt lt thumb gt lt contentnumber gt 10 lt contentnumber gt lt contentxmlurl gt album_somealbum xml lt contentxmlurl gt lt album gt lt collection gt lt album _mngid 3 gt lt title gt Another album lt title gt lt description gt Pictures of my vacation lt description gt lt contentnumber gt 20 lt contentnumber gt lt contentxmlurl gt album_myotheralbum xml lt content
7. Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 3 3 Customizing configuration The position of the button strip tooltip text can be set to be below or above the strip with the Main Panel Tooltip Text Position parameter in config xml The position of the album description can be set to be below or above the button strip with the Album Info Text Position parameter in config xml The X position of the help button can be set with the Main Panel Help Button X parameter in config xml Should the value lie outside the expos frame it will be reset to appear inside the frame The color alpha of the image strip scrollbar during a mouse rollover can be set with the Image Strip Scroll Color Alpha parameter in config xml The gradient in the image strip can be turned off by setting the Image Strip Gradient Enabled parameter in config xml to no The Y position of the image counter can be set with the Main Panel Image Counter Y parameter in config xml The X position of the Cancel text button in the album list can be set with the Album List Cancel Button X parameter in config xml 3 4 Customizing the Layout Customizing Expos for your particular Joomla template is critical to creating an appealing and elegant implementation of Expos Before you begin consider the following e How wide is your current template e How wide is the space in which Expos will be displayed i e y
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9. contains title date and location elements similar to a picture element A thumb element points to the thumbnail image for the video with a url subelement in it A video element inside the video element lists the streams Each stream is enclosed in a stream element The stream element contains one attribute called bitrate which indicates in kilobits the bitrate of that particular stream this value is used by SpeedSense to select an appropriate stream for each visitor dependingn their estimated bandwidth A url element containing the URL of the stream goes inside the stream element Both picture and video elements can be identified with a _mngid attribute similarly to albums and collections 31 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla The example above indicates that the album contains two pictures the first of Chicago with audio commentary and the second of Times Square in NYC without It also contains a video of Jack s wedding For information about the XML structure of the configuration formats and strings XML files see the Customization and Internationalization sections 5 3 SpeedSense SpeedSense is the mechanism that expos uses to determine a visitor s bandwidth and select an appropriate video stream that will make uninterrupted playback more likely This feature is turned off by default and you can turn it on by editing the Speed
10. find more tools and special versions of the stand alone gallery But since the Joomla Expose component is actually a bridge between Joomla and the gallery it must be possible to implement a special version into the Joomla environment just by replacing the expose directory You can always link to an extra standalone version using a wrapper 6 4 2 install of Expos component A component can only be installed once But if 1 Expose d you want to create a gallery for your visitors ExposePrive MU Manage Albums and one for registered users you ll need to HS sce Admin gt 2 Configuration install a second one So we modified one and joomlaXplorer BRI Manual called it Exposeprive Same component just _ renamed You can download it on JoomlaCode site at http joomlacode org gf project expose scmsvn alpha components As alternative you can open the gallery with a collection link Then only this collection will be shown in the gallery The other collections will be hidden at that time 6 5 Expose Shopping Cart Some users want to use Expose as a shopping cart This is PRE ALHPA software and no support is given yet If this turns into an actual project we will notify people at the forums here http www gotgtek com forum index php topicz 1024 0 If you want to try it out download it from http www gotgtek com cms downloads cat view 5 html 35 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First proble
11. play With IIS 6 0 Microsoft changed the way streaming media is handled Previous versions of IIS did not require any modification to stream Flash Video Microsoft IIS 6 0 the default web server that ships with Windows 2003 requires a MIME type to recognize that FLV files are streamed media On the Windows 2003 server open the Internet Information Services Manager Expand the Local Computer Server Right click the local computer server and select Properties Select the MIME Types tab Click the New button Enter the following information Associated Extension box FLV MIME Type box flv application octet stream Click Ok Restart the World Wide Web Publishing service Oo e wr o CON Issue solved thanks to Knutklo 7 2 3 Front end doesn t show Some known conflicts on your webpage can cause this e Clear your browsers cache Private Data Firefox or delete temp internet files IE or you can try hard refresh Ctrl F5 e f everything fails Restore your expos with your backup e Try the unchanged default Joomla template Some lt difs gt or iframes constructions are in conflict with the gallery e Deactivate all other flash based components and reactivate them one by one to isolate the conflict e Expos uses mootools js script If other components are using this script too this will cause conflicts 38 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last upd
12. system requirements which allow the administrator s to upload and resize the images and flash videos Ensure that PHP version 4 or higher the GD library DOM or DOMXML library and the ICONV library 6 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla extensions are installed and activated on your web server In the Joomla back end System gt System InFo gt PHP inro you can verify this You also need to check some php ini settings e safe mode must be Off in order for Expos to work correctly e disable functions directive must not include the functions exec and set time limit e file uploads must be set to On to be able to upload files from your computer e upload max filesize and post max size parameters control the maximum file size that can be uploaded Increase the value default is 2M if you have problems uploading pictures from higher resolution cameras See 4 4 for more information If your host does not support these requirements you may still use the Expos to display your photos flash movies in Jooma However you will have to use the Album Manager desktop application as alternative to upload and manage your collections albums and files See 4 9 for more details 1 5 Disclaimer This software is provided as is and no warranty is offered or implied Your use of Expos signifies that you will hold harmless and protect any and all
13. the Album Manager The rest of this section will describe the use of the Album Manager built into this component However applications for managing your collections albums are available for Windows and Mac OS X see below Very large collections may be more efficiently managed using the stand alone applications 4 1 Quick overview Double click the thumbnail image to view Select a photo and double click on one of the fields to change the corresponding property Right click to clone one photo s property to the normal size image of a photo If the currently selected item is a video this will bring up the video preview window where you can create a thumbnail for the video the rest of the album Albums Photos and videos v Photos from 2005 Title Location Mm Vacation Robotica il F Wedding Magic of Flight dl New York 2004 3 Mansion EJ 5 Various Rename Moveto Delete Up Down Create album thumb Delete items Move to Up Down r Description i e ed wine y Description Create collection Create album Add from bucket Upload videos Upload photos Settings Logout Click here to add photos and videos Right click over the text area and select from the bucket apply to commit any changes you ve made to the album description Right click over the text area and select apply to commit any changes you ve made to the photo description
14. translate components com_expose expose manager misc strings php file 3 5 1 RC2 release You can edit it like this e Default string id albumlistcancel gt lt english gt Cancel lt english gt e New item lt string id albumlistcancel gt lt icelandic gt Hetta vic lt icelandic gt After you done that you just have to add this line to your config xml to change the default language 18 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla param name Language value icelandic type string gt 3 5 2 RC3 amp RC4 release In RC3 and RC4 the language setting isn t supported here yet You ll need to translate the strings xml as is so manually switch the english strings with the appropriate translations WITHOUT creating new languages put your translation directly between the lt english gt lt english gt tags Check the JoomlaCode website http joomlacode org gf project expose scmsvn if your language doesn t already exist If not in the list please send us yours so we can add it in the pack 19 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 4 Managing Your Media Collection Once Expos is installed and customized you can get to work creating your collections albums and populating them with images and movies This is performed entirely with
15. videos on the web It is based on the stand alone gallery software Expos by Ivan Dramaliev which is available at http www slooz com The small footprint of the flash clips and an intelligent loading of resources allow even dialup users to have a seamless experience viewing your photos 1 2 License amp Copyright The core comes with the following license Expos is FREE for personal use You can purchase a one site license for 50 USD if you d like to use it in a commercial setting such as selling or advertising goods and services To do so click on the PayPal button found at url http www slooz com trinkets php proj expose The license only permits you to use expose on a commercial website and also includes a license for Album Manager for Windows and for Mac OS X see below It does not include source code or additional software This license also allows you to register Album Manager Custom modifications are also negotiable for a fee Payments are non refundable so TEST THOROUGHLY before buying a license Other licensing options and customization of the Flash interface are also possible Mail Ivan at junker slooz com for a discount You may not sell Expos and you may not redistribute Expos without prior permission from Ivan Rapa Please also support the Joomla bridge team You can donate on the http www gotgtek com site to encourage us keep this free project alive ELIT em EE and our servers and forum runni
16. HP can also be used to create and manipulate image files in a variety of different image formats including gif png jog womp and xpm Even more convenient PHP can output image streams directly to a browser The GD library available at http www libgd org and PHP engine may also require other libraries depending on which image formats you want to work with e g for reading meta data of pictures you need the exif extension Since PHP 4 3 there is a bundled version of the GD lib More information at http php net gd 12 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla For linux to enable GD support configure PHP with gd DIR where DIR is the GD base install directory To use the recommended bundled version of the GD library which was first bundled in PHP 4 3 0 use the configure option with gd GD library requires libpng and libjpeg to compile To disable GD support in PHP add without gd to your configure line In Windows you ll include the GD2 DLL php gd2 dll as an extension in php ini The line extension php gd2 dll should already be in your php ini you only need to uncomment it remove the at front of the line to activate it Restart your webserver service after changing to apply the new setting 2 9 4 Freetype subextension To embed copyright gd text on your uploaded images you need the GD Support enabled ge Freety
17. P In lt joomla _root gt components com_expose expose html php you need to edit lines 95 and 96 such that the height and width match the space available in the template This file contains the iframe which specifies the main container for Expos This should be set to the maximum space available in our example 700 pixels lt joomla _root gt components com_expose expose config config xml is the main configuration file for Expos Here you can adjust almost every parameter of expose The most common parameters that you will need to modify are the Main Pane options Remember to backup all files you re gone change 3 4 3 RC4 release Since the RC4 release you don t need to edit some php or xml files anymore but you still can edit the config xml directly All can be done directly from the backend menu Components gt Expose gt Conricuration Like in RC3 you probably only need to change the Main Panel options to fit the gallery size and button positions A brief explanation of the setting is shown when moving the mouse over every setting 3 5 Language All the language settings are stored in strings xml found at the same location as the other configuration files lt joomla _root gt components com_expose expose config strings xml On Joomlacode org you can find a languagepack with all available languages and installation instructions included If you want to have a translated backend too you ll need to
18. RC3 and replace the one on your server We removed this from RC4 because it seemed to cause issues for some users and not others You will not need to modify anything else 41 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 7 3 11 Add a link to an image A lt picture gt element in the XML of an album can contain a link URL parameter e g picture link http www server com gt if present the that URL will be opened instead of the large image of a photo A new JavaScript function is used to open the URL the link opens in a new window by default 7 3 12 Configuration isn t saved See 2 6 which files need to be writable for this 7 3 13 Can t use Chinese or Japanese characters You can enable disable the use of embedded fonts from fonts swf with the useEmbeddedFonts FlashVars parameter Set this parameter in the expose html php file to no if you are going to use characters from Chinese or Japanese otherwise the embedded fonts file would become too large to be practical 42 www gotgtek com
19. Sense Emabled coniguration parameter in config xml SpeedSense works by loading a dummy JPG file located in expose img dummy jpg and measuring how much the user can download in roughly 3 seconds The default dummy file is 200KB which should be enough to obtain a good estimate of the user s bandwidth If all your videos consist of a single stream each you do not need to enable SpeedStream that will only waste bandwidth 5 4 Internationalization Expos includes support for using your won language in the text frontend interface The strings xml file in the config folder contains the list of strings used in the Flash movie Each string has an identifier and text placed in one or more language elements By default strings xml comes with an English string list The easiest way to use your own text instead is to replace the text in the english elements in strings xml file In RC2 alternatively you can add your own language elements for each string and change the language parameter value in config xml more about parameters in Customization to your language element name For example if you use lt german gt lt german gt elements you will have to change the language parameter to german Also you may want to check the expos web site for downloadable language translations 5 5 Customization In this section you will learn how to modify the look amp feel of expos including the artwork and the layout and the positioning of inte
20. User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla exPos 4 A BETTER KIND OF MEDIA GALLERY User manual Administrator manual Developer manual First problem solving Official release Flash core Ivan Dramaliev www slooz com Joomla Framework Josh Brien www gotgtek com RC3 Victor Drover www anything digital com Documentation CORE Ivan Dramaliev Rc4 Bruno Marchant RC3 Victor Drover Forum Josh Brien Bruno Marchant 1 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Table of Contents Se E F4 Rim VERO ER LEN NEM 5 EE 5 E KI NOR ndan a aa aka a gk aa gana 5 EMELIE a Ba adang a Pa aa A ap Jana apa EES 6 UE ER Sana nah aaa ah Gala dana aan maa a gen bada a na a E 6 1 21 EN ON MM W aan aa ba o pn i aki ix bu tna C ERGO d Ru A AAK BA Da eu 6 EE 6 RTE E EE 7 BOR ILC ERREUR RE E T 2 lostallation and E EE 9 ET TC EE 9 22 RO BaF ROl ERR 9 Alle EE 9 24 Update dnd RE 10 SE 10 2 6 File amp directory permissions aaa sasak easet Ex na e ee bt GER Le rien ke REESEN 10 FARE are LC SINS E ERE QI EI 11 2 6 2 Changing El EE 11 Cad SI 2 E E A AEE ERU 11 Irt 11 PA e IG Aan TA BIS NER LR 12 2 9 1 Check current PHP setings a cai
21. ail User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Capture to thumbnail button to save the frame as the video thumbnail Repeat this process as necessary to achieve the desired results Every time you create an album or a collection a default thumbnail image gets assigned to them You can create your own custom thumbnail images 64x48 pixels recommended and replace albthumb jpg and collthumb jpg located in manager amfphp extra with your own copies To give your collection a most impressive appearance you should create different collection and album thumbnails These will be displayed when visitors to your site browse your albums The only limitation is that collection album thumbnails must already exist as photo or video thumbnails To create a collection album thumbnail browse to the photo or video which has the thumbnail you desire Select the photo video and ensure the thumbnail is displayed in the Media Thumb Preview area Next click the CREATE ALBUM THUMB button and select the desired collection album To confirm that the thumbnail is being used for the collection album select the collection album from the Album List The thumbnail should appear in the Album Thumb Preview area Repeat this process for any remaining albums or to replace existing collection album thumbs 4 7 Moving and Deleting Collections Albums and files Reorganizing or destroying existing a
22. ample albums should be visible 2 12Linking Directly to Collections and Albums You may link directly to your collections albums and images using standard Joomla Syntax from within your content text First identify the necessary collection album and or image ID s from the backend album manager by selecting the required one The ID is shown on top Albums Cor Photos and videos Cor v C9 Amaterthearer Title 14 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Link to a collection this collection will be displayed as top collection e g open expose and use the collection with ID 234 as the top level collection index php optionzcom expose amp ltemid 26 amp topcoll 234 Link to an album e g open expose and automatically load the album with ID 123 index php optionzcom expose amp ltemid 456 amp album 123 Link to an image e g open expose and automatically load the photo with ID 456 that is part of the album with ID 123 index php optionzcom expose amp ltemid 26 amp album 7 amp photo 7 Auto start a slideshow from a specified album e g open expose automatically load the photo with ID 456 that is part of the album with ID 123 and start a slide show index php optionzcom expose amp ltemid 26 amp album z 123 amp photo 456 amp playslideshow yes Don t forget to change the Joomla itemid Expos albumid and photoid 15 www got
23. at the following url Apply Cancel http www rivavx com index php encoder amp l 3 Video settings are found on the Video tab of the same settings screen for the photo settings see below Adjust the fields to modify the parameters of thumbnails generated from video files see Creating Thumbnails below 23 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Make sure that your web server has the correct MIME type for FLV streaming flv application octet stream When uploading larger FLV files it is better to upload them using ftp and then add them using the bucket because php is not ideal and limited in filesize see 7 3 6 for uploading large files 4 3 Creating Collections and Albums Expos arranges photos videos into collections and albums Collections consist of albums and or other collections You could see collections as folders for grouping your images in themes containing albums with pictures of one theme Importantly each nested collection increases the amount of horizontal space required to display the entire gallery For most Joomla templates you will not have enough horizontal space to accommodate more than one nested collection Use the buttons in the Create Albums and Manage Albums areas of the Album Manager to organize your collections albums 4 4 Uploading Media Before uploading any files create at least one album and
24. ated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 7 2 4 Not all buttons are shown on the gallery You ll need to change the configuration file More specific the Main Panel button settings to adjust their location 7 2 5 always need to click on the gallery to activate it A Flash object needs a little script to auto run it on page load It s provided by Adobe as AC RunActiveContent s For security issues some browsers or antivirus software deactivate Javascript so the gallery won t run automatically and you ll need to activate it with a click on the component Check the settings properties to allow javascript on this site 7 2 6 Can t select the same album again When you re select the same album after returning from the strip to the albumlist you need to select another album before you can select the same again This is a core Flash issue and can t be changed by us 7 2 7 Expose not loading with ARTIO JoomSEF You probably need to change the URL config for Artio SEF as follows 1 Goto The Artio Component from the components menu 2 Select ARTIO JoomSEF Configuration Make sure its writeable 3 Set the Component Configuration for com_expose at the bottom to SKIP 7 3 Manager back end 7 3 1 Back end login hangs during authentication Of particular note is the DOM or DOMXML library if this is not installed the back end login will not be successful and will hang during authentication Recently a bug in the AMFPHP
25. contributors to this project if harm in any shape or form results from that use 1 6 Credits Expos for Joomla com expose was born from the popular gallery software Expos by Ivan Dramaliev at www slooz com who maintains the Flash source code The port of Expos to the Joomla application framework was performed primarily by Josh Brien at www gotgtek com with help from Victor Drover from www anything digital com RC3 and previous and Bruno Marchant since RC4 Josh and Bruno maintain the forums and codebase Victor created the project documentation for RC3 Bruno has revisioned this manual to fit closer to the RC4 version and some typical problem solving and developer information has been added This software includes the AMFPHP component http amfphp sourceforge net DOMXML to DOM conversion plugin http alexandre alapetite net doc alex domxml php4 php5 and a JPEG encoder courtesy of Uro Tinic and Cristi Cuturicu It also comes with the Medrano font courtesy of Tepid Monkey See the readme txt file in lt joomla_root gt components Expos expose manager fonts for more information All credits of these components goes to them 7 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Finally mad props to all the friends of Expos who took the time to post their issues on the forum and keep this project going forward at www gotgtek com forum
26. dministrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Just run lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose manager check_system php and see the result of it If errors occur you need to change the config of your server most probably ask your host If warnings occur you need to verify the pointed files paths permissions make them writable To maintain the maximum security only change these file directory permissions 2 6 4 Changing settings Make following files writable when changing some settings After changing it s advisable to chmod these files back to 644 Settings joomla root components com expose expose config config xml Lettertypes joomla root components com expose expose config strings xml Password joomla root components com expose expose manager amfphp extra passhash inc php Manager Properties joomla root components com expose expose manager amfphp extra settings xml 2 6 Changing Gallery contents Make following directories and files writable when changing the contents of the gallery Images lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose img Contents joomla root components com expose expose xml 2 7 Uninstall Before updating you need to uninstall the actual installation of the component 2 Having trouble with the component Let us know by posting a topic on the forum at
27. e your description here Apply description changes To change the Titles of your albums select the album of interest and then click the Rename button below the collections album list To change the Titles of your media simply double click the Title itself Adding dates and locations to your media can be a nice addition to your collection Create edit Dates and Locations by double clicking the appropriate textareas for the desired media file In many cases the same Location Date Description and Title may apply to an entire album Expose makes it easy to propagate this data from one file to all the files in the same album Simply right click the file which already has the desired Location Date Description and or Title and select the appropriate Apply to rest option 4 6 Creating Thumbnails Thumbnails for photos are automatically created so no further action is required once the images have been successfully uploaded To preview the thumbnails select the media item of interest the thumbnail should appear in the Media Thumb Preview area For videos thumbnails are manually generated from a frame of the movie Start by browsing to the video of interest and selecting the video file in the Media List The Media Thumb Previews will be blank but click this area to open the Video Preview window Play the video until an appropriate frame is located and pause the video Click the 25 www gotgtek com 4 Capture to thumbn
28. fter upload This saves bandwidth and increases the speed On the net you can find many tools that can do this in batch By default the maximum upload filesize is set at 2M in the php ini Ask your host to increase this value or try to add this line in the htaccess file Config for Expos component increase filesize php_value upload_max_filesize 10M End config Expos 7 3 7 Problems when changing the password When you try to change the password but it isn t accepted or it returns an error the encrypted password file is probably unwritable Check and change the attributes of lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose manager amfphp extra passhash inc php to make it writable Don t leave the rights at 777 but chmod it back to 644 7 3 8 Help Password lost Only one thing left todo change it back to the default one The password is stored in lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose manager amfphp extra passhash inc php Just replace the contents of this file with following line and the password will be reseted to manager lt php GLOBALS passhash 3e892e9edc898cf7 1 3ecd6ef06a116a7 gt 7 3 9 The upload button is grayed out Did you select the album where you want to upload the pictures too 7 3 10 I don t want an extra login for the Manager If you are using RC4 but you don t want the extra Manager authentication in the backend you only need to copy the manager folder from
29. gt cities nyc_timessquare jpg lt url gt lt image gt lt smallimage gt lt url gt cities _sm_nyc_timessquare jpg lt url gt lt smallimage gt 30 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla lt picture gt video _mngid 3 gt title Jack s wedding lt title gt thumb url videos th wedding jpg url thumb video stream bitrate 1000 gt url videos wedding 1000k flv url lt stream gt lt stream bitrate 500 gt lt url gt videos wedding_500k flv lt url gt lt stream gt lt video gt lt video gt lt expose gt Again all elements in the photo and video list are enclosed in an expose element with a version attribute Each picture is defined in a picture element The picture has a title specified in a title element A date a location and a description can also be specified in elements with the same name but they are optional To insert new lines in a description use n without the quotes and with spaces surrounding the n This is necessary because the XML file is stripped of all whitespace The image files are defined in two elements image and smallimage An url subelement specifies the location of each file You can also specify an audio commentary MP3 file using an audio element with a url subelement containing the location of the file Videos are enclosed in a video element It
30. gtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 3 Configuration 3 1 General 3 4 4 RC3 release Expos has lot of things for you to customize Most settings can be changed in the lt joomla _root gt components com_expose expose config config xml file Just edit the values to fit your needs but use a decent editor Some editors destroy your xml file structure and make it unusable 3 1 2 RC4 release 4 See d From RC4 you can access the configuration from l the back end Just select Components gt Expose gt Manage Albums EE d all cine Conricuration and change the values as you like 3 JCE Admin M Manual Place your mouse over the keywords to get a brief explanation about the parameter ATbum lv DEET AT EE 3 2 Login password Be sure to change the default Manager password manager because it is accessible from the frontend You can access it from the back end or from the front end at lt joomla _root gt components com_expose expose manager manager php Be warned Open the Manager frontpage Change password Components gt Expose gt Manace Avsums and select CHANGE password button Then type in the Current password actual and new password in the fields Click on Cuawce to apply the new password Confirm password New password Change Cancel 16 www gotgtek com User
31. http Awww gotgtek com forum Sure to uninstall Always make a backup and use the uninstaller in the Joomla backend to remove the component Go to the INSTALLER gt Components section select Expose from the list and hit the Uninstat button It s gone If something goes wrong during uninstall then try again If the component isn t listed anymore check and remove any existing traces of the component Uninstall e Remove components com_expose folder e Remove administrator components com_expose folder 2 8 Backup Expos doesn t use the Joomla database to preserve its information except menu and component links All settings data movies and photos are stored in the lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose xml and img directory You only need to backup these two and your gallery can be restored at any time It could be usefull to write all your settings configuration and picture sizes down too so you can restore them easily 11 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla later together with a copy of the config folder After reinstalling the gallery and testing it without modifying the default installation you can restore the img and xml folders to restore your previous content again 2 9 Activating missing libs Like mentioned in 1 4 your hosts server needs some extensions to be activated Most of the
32. image which is the large fitting size in my expose settings To achieve this we created a transparent 800x600 png with my watermark in the middle saved it as watermark png and replaced it with the original file referenced above You will also notice that on the normal image 600x400 the copyright symbol is the same size as in the large fitting image and it is in the upper left corner How does this happen While the normal fitting image is being processed the bottom and right borders are aligned with the 800x600 watermark png Since the medium sized image is smaller the watermark appears full size but in the upper left corner If we had used a 600x400 watermark file with the centered copyright symbol the copyright would be in the center of the normal fitting image but shifted down and right in the large fitting image In short choose which image most people will look at and optimize your workflow accordingly Putting the watermark in the bottom right corner of watermark png will give consistency between the normal and large fitting images but may be less useful as a deterrent to copying 4 2 3 Video settings O m Expos supports flash video files that have a FLV file extension Existing videos must be e SH af appropriately sized as Expos does not resize video and converted to FLV format prior to uploading Flash videos can be created from AVI MPEG Quicktime and WMV files using the free FLV encoder from RIVA
33. in those elements so you end up changing it in 4 places The hexadecimal value in the FlashVars string has to be stripped of the symbol normally used in HTML for specifying colors To change the colors used in the Flash movie open config xml in an XML editor and change the values of those parameters which identify color and transparency alpha values 5 5 4 Text formats and fonts Expos comes prepackaged with a set of two fonts You can use your own fonts if you have Flash MX 2004 installed You do that by opening the fonts fla file in the fla folder then specifying your own fonts for runtime sharing the fonts used in that file are Verdana and Arial and finally publishing to fonts swf To change the formatting of the text in Expos open formats xml found in the xml subfolder of the expose folder Each format element specifies in a subelement the font used the size of the text its color etc Enter your preferred values to format the text your Way You can enable disable the use of embedded fonts from fonts swf with the useEmbeddedFonts FlashVars parameter Set this parameter to no in the expose html php file if you are going to use characters from Chinese or Japanese otherwise the embedded fonts file would become too large to be practical 33 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 5 5 5 Default file locations By default Ex
34. ings To adjust the photo settings open the Expos album manager from the component menu of the Administrative back end or use the album manager for Windows OS X see below Click the Settincs button to display the Expos settings dialog In the example below we have chosen settings to fit a space 700 pixels wide in our template 21 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla O m Small fitting box Normal fitting box Large fitting box Quality 200 150 600 400 2 800 600 80 V Create large image V Embed copyright text Text size Text color Anything Digital com 10 255 2 1 255 2 1255 150 Red Green Blue Opacity v Embed watermark Apply Cancel If some of your original images will be smaller than the Large fitting box you may choose whether these images will be expanded to the indicated size by selecting Create large image 4 2 2 Photo overlay Previous screen also provides options for embedding copyright information or other text including the text size color and opacity There are two possibilities to embed this on your photos If you decide you want to embed your own watermark on normal fitting and large fitting images at the bottom right corner of each image you will need to create a transparent PNG image that contains the picture you want to use Replace joomla root components com expo
35. ion during upload and resizing e Assigning a description to each collection album amp image e Image strip view for previewing all images in an album e Customization of the interface layout resizing and the button icons e Playing slide shows e Linking directly from content to collection album photo or slideshow e Smart image pre loading the small footprint of the Flash clips and an intelligent loading of resources allow even dialup users to have a seamless experience viewing your photos e Multiple streams per video e SpeedSense mechanism for automatic stream assignment based on the user s bandwidth 1 4 System requirements Expos consists of a front end application to display your photos to your visitors and a back end application to upload and manage your gallery photos Both need some additional libs to be activated on the server After installing the component you can check your server s config settings by running a little check script lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose manager check_system php See 2 9 for more information about all these libs 1 4 4 Front end The front end application simply requires the Joomla content management system version 1 0 x and the DOM since PHP v5 or DOMXML library since Expos RC4 activated for PHP End users i e your site visitors will need at least Flash Player 7 installed for their particular browser 1 4 2 Back end The album manager in contrast has strict
36. it with sm For example if your full size image file is chicago jpg the thumb image would be named sm chicago jpg This nomenclature is not required but helps when you view your files in a file manager on your operating system e g Windows Explorer Mac OS X Finder An audio commentary MP3 file can also be bundled with a picture and its file name is prepended with au e g au chicago mp3 for the chicago jpg image These naming conventions are only required if you are going to edit your albums using one of the provided Windows or MAC manager applications The PHP manager doesn t support audio at this time and uses a slightly different naming system The default setup that comes with the Expos package is suitable for thumb size images not taller than 200 pixels and full size images not taller than 400 pixels Check the Customization section to find out how to resize the movie and reposition the interface elements within it to be able to accommodate other image sizes The album and album collection thumbnail images should be no larger than 64x48 pixels if you use the default configuration It is prudent but not required to use all lower case file extensions e g jpg instead of JPG and in some cases even lower case file names e g chicago jpg instead of Chicago jpg Videos consist of one or more streams and thumbnail image representative of the video It is easier to manage the different streams by giving them similar names e g wedding
37. lbums and media is self explanatory Use the buttons in the Manage Albums and Manage Media areas to manage your collection Rename j Moveto Delete SEN Gu 4 8 Linking to URL The picture element of an album XML data file e g joomla root components com expose expose xml album 5 xml can contain a link URL parameter e g picture _mngid 17 linkz http www server com If present the URL will be opened instead of the large image of a photo A new JavaScript function is used to open the URL causing the link to open in the new window by default 4 9 Album Manager for Windows and Mac OS X If your host does not support the strict server requirements for the album manager contained within this component or if you have a very large media collection you may still use the Expos component to display your pictures Simply install your component create the appropriate menu item as described above and customize the component to suit your Joomla template However all album management will be performed using the stand alone Album Manager application available for Windows amp or Mac OS X operating systems The use of these applications is beyond the scope of this documentation but the basic behavior is similar to that described above 26 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Note that when using the offline Manager the albu
38. location is at 24 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla lt joomla _root gt components com_expose expose manager bucket Once the files are transferred to this location click the App FROM Bucket button select the appropriate files from the list use Surr or Controt button to select multiple files at once and follow the instructions In the window for adding media from the bucket you can filter the list of files by entering the bits of file name to look for into the filter text input and pressing Enter For example if you upload some images in to a vacation folder inside the bucket and some other images into a wedding folder in the bucket you can shrink the list to see only the images in the vacation folder by entering vacation into the filter text input and pressing Enter The filter applies simultaneously to the list of photos and videos 4 5 Editing Titles Dates Locations amp Descriptions To create edit the description associated with collections albums or photos videos browse to and select the appropriate item Enter the item description in either the Album Description text area or the Media Description text area as appropriate Once you have completed the description place your mouse over the vic text and right click or ctrl click on Mac OS X Choose pesenietion 7 APPLY DESCRIPTION CHANGES from the menu Plac
39. m only need to be uncommented in the php ini configuration file but mostly they can only be changed by your host himselve so you ll probably will have to mail him to change this setting After changing the configuration you need to restart the webserver service to apply the new settings 2 9 10 Check current PHP settings If you want to know your current configuration of your PHP engine the Joomla back end System gt System INro gt PHP nro gives you a full overview of all settings and extensions You can also become the same overview if you create a small script with this line in it lt php phpinfo Save it e g as phpconfig php and place it on your server Then call this file with a browser 2 9 2 DOM or DOMXML extension The DOM extension allows you to operate on XML documents through the DOM API with PHP 5 For PHP v4 DOM KML enabled you need to use the DOMXML P API Version iL extension By default this library 7 e See dom HTML Support enabled should be installed and activated See xpath support enabled http php net domxml for More Pointer Support enabled enabled information about this plugin RelaxNG Support enabled Since PHP v5 the XML lib functions are stored in the DOM extension There is no installation needed to use these functions anymore they are part of the PHP core now More information about this extension can be found at http php net dom 2 9 3 GD extension P
40. m solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 6 6 Expose Scroller Do you want some pictures from the Expos gallery scrolling over your frontpage Then you ll need this module It picks photo s from the whole gallery just a defined album or the last added pictures Static or scrolling in horizontal left or right or vertical up or down direction is possible Linking to the collection album photo or slideshow too The alpha is out exPos 4 image scroller 36 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 7 Problem solving Some of the common problems when installing managing and using Expos can be found here If this doesn t solve your problem try to search in the forum Please verify them before posting a new topic on the forum at http www gotgtek com forum Good luck and please let us know when opening a post if your problem got solved 7 1 Installation 7 1 1 Can t install Check if all Joomla settings are green in System gt System info yes Especially SAFE MODE needs to be off This will disable the unique owner issue when trying to access php files System Info Q Global Checkin System Help 7 1 2 Add Expos on the frontpage This trick applies to other components as well All you need to do is to make the component the first published item in your mainmenu
41. ms don t get an ID Linking from content to the albums won t be possible at this point When opening the online Manager for the first time after uploading some pictures it will automatically assign an ID to all the albums again causing albums having an ID to change from ID The applications may be downloaded directly from slooz com Windows http www slooz com trinkets ohp proj expmngwin Mac OS X http www slooz com trinkets php proj expmngmac A tutorial for the Windows version of Album Manager is available here http www slooz com article php article intro_win These applications are limited to managing 3 movies but are otherwise completely functional Users requiring unlimited movies will need to purchase a license a license for the Windows and Mac OS X Album Managers is included with the commercial Expos licensing fee as described in the copyright section 4 10 Switching between Managers Using more than one manager is not currently supported so choose carefully what album manager method you will be using or risk losing all your media and albums when switching between them YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED ALWAYS BACKUP BEFORE EXPERIMENTING Dough it is possible to use both local and the web based manager if you manually copy the online contents of the xml directory BEFORE changing anything in the local manager because if you did change anything with the online manager it needs to reprocess the contents in order to assign ID s t
42. nd a foreground image can be loaded by setting the bglmageURL and fglmageURL FlashVars parameters The foreground image will appear in a layer directly above the image strip and can be used as a gradient mask for the image strip The image can also be a SWF file that contains animation or a transparent PNG image Can be set in backend properties You can enable disable the use of embedded fonts fonts swf with the useEmbeddedFonts FlashVars parameter Set this parameter to no if you are going to use characters from Chinese or Japanese otherwise the embedded fonts file would become too large to be practical 34 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 6 More Expos plugins tools 6 1 Windows Mac Os X Manager When the server doesn t fit all the requirements to use the Manager verify 1 4 you still can use Expose but you ll need to create the contents locally and upload it to your server More info above 6 2 Expos small edition If you don t have much space left on your template consider this version You don t need to change the configuration settings anymore to fit in a small area Make sure you set the Medium Sized pictures to no larger than 500 width x 400 height otherwise they will cut off in the gallery Downloadable on http jonmlacode org gf project expose scmsvn 6 3 More at slooz com At www slooz com you can
43. ng This software includes a few subcomponents e the AMFPHP component from http amfphp sourceforge net an RPC Remote Procedure Call plugin It s a way to communicate data between a client and a server You call a method on a local object with various parameters set a callback and receive a result You don t have to worry about how you re going to send and receive the data The server and the client say php and Flash agree on a common way of describing method calls and complex data It allows seamless communication between Php and Flash and Flex with Remoting JavaScript and Ajax with JSON XML clients with XML RPC e an JPEG encoder courtesy of Uro Tinic and Cristi Cuturicu This package also comes with the Medrano font courtesy of Tepid Monkey see the readme txt file in the fonts folder for more information 5 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla e DOMXML php4 conversion to DOM php5 by Alexandre Alapetite Documentation for this plugin can be found on http alexandre alapetite net doc alex domxml php4 php5 1 3 Features e Standard installation via the Joomla component installer e Nesting of albums and assigning thumbnails to albums and album collections e Online picture upload resize and managing e Offline gallery managing for Windows and Mac OS X e Flash video FLV files upload e Copyright and watermark addit
44. o the collections albums and images Also note that the generated code for the xml data files is much cleaner and structured with the Windows based Manager as with the online one The online manager writes all tags in one line So when managing a big portfolio it s advisable to use the Windows or Mac manager 27 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 5 Developer information 5 1 File organization The files are organized as follows e the Flash movie files main movie button icons and font assets reside in the swf_ subfolder inside the expose folder this structure is necessary for the proper loading of these files and can only be changed by recompiling the main movie SWF file e all images videos and audio commentary MP3s go by default into the img subfolder inside the expose folder where you can further categorize them by placing them into separate folders e the album and description data go into the xml subfolder inside the expose folder e the configuration text formatting and strings XML files reside in the config subfolder inside the expose folder Each picture consists of two files one thumb sized used in the image strip and a larger one used in the full size display mode which reside in the same folder The general naming convention for the smaller image file is to use the file name of the larger image and prepend
45. our template width less any space occupied by menus CSS padding or other modules e What size do you want your images to be displayed at Consider that you will have small fitting images thumbnails normal fitting images images displayed within your Joomla template and large fitting images images that pop up in new browser windows when you zoom in on a normal fitting image For example let s assume that your template is 900 pixels wide with a 200 pixel wide module such as a menu on the left This leaves 700 pixels in which to display your photos Thus you will want your regular sized images to be no larger than 700 pixels and 650 pixels is a good choice as the extra 50 pixels will be available for white space and such around the images Since every template is different some trial and error is required to see what works best for you At http joomlacode org gf project expose a small version of Expos has been 17 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla created for use with typical Joomla templates At www slooz com you can find more predefined configuration files for special settings 3 4 4 RC3 release For the RC3 release based on the above example you will now need to manually modify 2 files using a good text editor such as TextPad for Windows or Text Wrangler for OS X and update your server with these files via FT
46. pe font libraries GD Version bundled 2 0 28 compatible Like you can see on this picture Freetype FreeType Linkage with freetype js listed B S FreeType leesch component in the GD GIF Read Support enabled extension section GIF Create Support enabled JPG Support enabled In Linux to enable PNG Support enabled support for FreeType WBMP Support nahid S add with freetype mu dir DIR to your BM Support enabled configure line 2 9 5 CONV extension With this module you can turn a string represented by a local character set into the one represented by another character set which may be the Unicode character set In order to enable this module on a Windows environment you need to put a DLL file named iconv dll or iconv 1 3 dll prior to 4 2 1 which is bundled with the PHP Win32 binary package into a directory specified by the PATH environment variable or one of the system directories of your Windows installation This module is part of PHP as of PHP 5 thus iconv dll and php iconv dll is not needed anymore More information at http www php net iconv 13 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 2 10 Security issues Some of the users seem to neglect the security issues for the Expos component and others plugins for Joomla after installation usually by not reading the documentary A quick overview to tighten it
47. plugin caused the same problem with PHP 5 2 x You need to update lt joomla_root gt components com_expose expose manager amfphp amf core app Gateway php to fix this from our downloadsite 7 3 2 l can t upload photo s from my PC to the site Could not connect with the server error message This is a long issue First check if your server has the minimum requirements for Joomla 39 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Joomla Register Globals Emulation OFF y Register Globals OFF y Magic Quotes ON y Safe Mode OFF y File Uploads ON y Session auto start OFF wv Check if the server has the minimum requirements for Expos e PHP version 4 or higher e DOM or DOMXML library in RC4 this is used in frontend and backend e GD library and the ICONV library extensions only if backend Manager used e Verify http www gotgtek com cms expose php settings html for additional info e Run xjoomla root components com expose expose manager check system php and check section 2 9 if errors are shown on this page Restart the server service to apply the new settings Did you try to change the htaccess file By default in the root of your Joomla site you can find a htaccess txt file which you need to rename You can add the following lines to it or create a new one in the joomla root components com ex
48. pos will look in the xml subfolder of the expose folder for all data XML files and in the img subfolder for all images and audio You can change the default file names and locations for albums xml strings xml formats xml and config xml by modifying the corresponding xyzXMLURL parameters in expose html php You can also change the base URL for the rest of the XML files the image files and the audio files by changing the baseXMLURL baselmageURL and baseAudioURL parameters in expose html Note that you will have to change each parameter in two places in expose html in order to make it work in all web browsers 5 5 6 Other hidden settings Most of the hidden settings of the standalone version of Expose are used dynamically by the Expose bridge depending on the settings and URL string properties that you use But if you want you can hardcode them in the expose html php file you can add some extra functionality to the gallery An album can be automatically opened by setting the value of the autoLoadAlbumID FlashVars parameter with the album s ID used by direct album linking see 2 12 A photo can be automatically opened by setting the value of the autoLoadAlbumID and autoLoadPhotoID FlashVars parameters with the respective Ids used by direct image linking see 2 12 A slide show can be set to automatically start by setting the autoStartSlideShow FlashVars parameter to yes used by URL linking see 2 12 A background image a
49. pose expose manager folder Config for Expos component upload errors SecFilterEngine Off SecFilterScanPOST Off End config Expos Note Your host can restrict some or all functions that you write in this file If you get an Apache error after renaming creating this file If so you ll need to contact your host more info on http httpd apache org docs 2 0 mod core html allowoverride Perhaps your pictures movies are to big usually 2M Check 7 3 6 on how to increase the upload file size value Or your drive space is low Picture folder isn t writable see 2 6 7 3 3 Can t delete collections albums or pictures Again check file and folder permissions as described in 2 6 7 3 4 FLV movies aren t uploaded This could be a server configuration problem see 7 2 2 40 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 7 3 5 The descriptions aren t saved Once you have completed the description place your Description mouse over the text and right click or ctrl click on Mac OS Place your description here X Choose Apply description changes from the menu Apply description changes 7 3 6 Upload is slow Upload doesn t finish with success Perhaps your pictures are too big It s advisable to resize your photos locally before uploading with the manager because they are resized on the server a
50. rface elements in the movie 5 5 1 Interface icons The icons used in the Flash movie are imported at runtime from artwork swf found in the swf subfolder inside the expose folder If you have Flash MX 2004 installed you can open 32 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla artwork fla in the fla folder to edit the icon graphics Each button icon has several states labeled on the timeframe and you will have to keep that organization When done modifying the icons simply publish the movie to export to artwork swf You can also check on the expos web site for downloadable icon sets 5 5 2 Size of Flash movie and posititions of interface elements The default configuration of Expos defines the Flash movie as 900 pixels wide by 510 pixels high which makes it suitable for images up to 400 pixels tall You can change the movie size by opening the configuration page Then change the width and height parameters from the list This panel contains also several parameters for the vertical position of the main panel the image the image strip etc Edit their values to reposition these interface elements 5 5 3 Colors The stock background color used by Expos is white You can change it by opening expose html and editing the values of bgcolor in four places the two bgcolor parameters in the object and embed elements and inside the FlashVars string
51. se expose manager amfphp extra watermark png with it There is no restriction on the dimensions of the watermark Or embed a copyright text of your own You can select the size and the color of the text by changing the values in the settings windows The color values are in RGB color You can also change the font but then you have to replace the font file embedcopy ttf located in joomla root components com expose expose manager fonts with yours 22 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla Currently the gallery uses a font from Tepid Monkey Fonts freeware fonts for a freeware world at http www fontframe com tepidmonkey Every Sunday he presents a brand new original font for your downloading pleasure More help about installing these fonts on your computer can be found on hitp www fontframe com tepidmonkey and go to the Help section If you have any comments or questions you can e mail him at tepidmonkey yahoo com You may use this font s for non commercial and commercial purposes You are not allowed to sell this font for any fee at all You are allowed to redistribute it as long as you don t charge ANYTHING for it at all The full set of terms of use which override what is listed here go to http www fontframe com tepidmonkey and visit the Terms Of Use section As an example we desired a copyright symbol in the center of my 800x600
52. select it from the Album List Media can now be added to your album in three ways using the Upload photos button the Upload videos button or the Add from bucket button All three upload buttons are found in the Upload Buttons area of the Album Manager Add from bucket Upload videos Upload photos It s also advisable to resize your photos locally before uploading with the manager because they are resized on the server after upload This saves bandwidth and increases the speed On the net you can find many tools that can do this in batch Upload photos Choose image files from your computer and follow the instructions to upload Files will be resized copyrighted and watermarked depending on the settings Upload videos Choose flash video files from your computer and follow the instructions to upload Files will NOT BE resized copyrighted or watermarked Files must also be flash videos with a FLV file extension Convert them before uploading Add from bucket This allows adding photos and videos from a bucket The bucket is a folder on the web server where you can upload the source images and videos for later adding to your media collection You might find it easier to FTP your files instead of using the uploading features in Album Manager or bypass upload problems which is where the bucket would come in handy Files photos and FLV flash videos must be manually transferred to the bucket i e via FTP The bucket
53. that image in this case thumb jpg A contentnumber element specifies the number of photos in the album and a contentxmlurl specifies the URL of the XML file containing the descriptions of each photo in the album This URL can either be absolute using an http modifier or relative as is the case in the example above where the file name is used as the URL More on the contentxmlurl element in the Customization section Additionally each album and collection may have a mngid attribute which is a unique ID string that can be used to auto launch albums photos and set root collections The descriptions of each photo or video in an album are stored in a separate XML file such as album somealbum xml as in the example above Let s look at a simple case of such a file lt xml version 1 0 encoding utf 8 gt lt expose version 2 1 gt picture _mngid 1 gt lt title gt Downtown Chicago lt title gt lt date gt October 2004 lt date gt lt location gt Chicago Illinois lt location gt lt description gt A skyscape shot of Chicago n Sears tower is in the left corner lt description gt lt image gt lt url gt cities chicago jpg lt url gt lt image gt lt smallimage gt lt url gt cities _sm_chicago jpg lt url gt lt smallimage gt lt audio gt lt url gt cities _au_chicago jpg lt url gt lt audio gt lt picture gt lt picture _mngid 2 gt lt title gt Times Square in NYC lt title gt lt image gt lt url
54. the DOMXML library RC4 does use it to get the gallery size settings In RC4 the interface language is now specified in a FlashVars parameter named language in the expose html php file instead of the Language parameter in config xml which was removed The magnifying glass button is removed in RC4 and the medium sized image was made clickable instead making it possible to popup a large image or redirect to a specified URL 2 3 Downloading The latest Expos packages are available as zip archives on the JoomlaCode site at url http joomlacode org gf project expose 9 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla 2 4 Update and re install Before installing a new version of Expose make a backup of the img and xml directory to preserve the actual contents see 2 8 Then uninstall the old version an install the new one Try the functions of the new version before restoring your original img and xml directory 2 5 Install Before applying big changes to your site always make a backup see 2 8 For Joomla you need to have a FTP copy and an sql dump of your database to restore it in times of trouble If you want to be really sure try this copy out from time to time on a testserver to verify if the backup isn t corrupt Expos is installed using the Joomla component installer Login to the administrative back end of your
55. xmlurl gt lt album gt lt collection gt lt expose gt As you can see the XML file is enclosed in an expose element with a version attribute This convention is used for all XML files used by expos The version attribute is used to determine the structure of the XML file Following the expose element is a collection element enclosing the remainder of the XML elements in albums xml The collection element is used to nest albums It acts much like a folder but it holds albums instead of files You can place other collection elements in a collection element or you can place one or more album elements Each collection contains a title element used to display the collection inside expos An optional thumb element may indicate that the collection has a thumbnail image associated with it this element is 29 www gotgtek com User Administrator amp First problem solving manual Last updated 14 07 2007 v1 4 Expos RC3 RC4 for Joomla described in the next paragraph You can see from the example above that there is a A collection collection inside your root collection This collection in turn contains one album The album element similarly has a title element In addition it may have a description element where you put a detailed description of the photos inside that album The thumb element in the first album in the example indicates that the album has a thumbnail image and an url subelement points to the location and file name of
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