"Latest Pictures" or "Latest Categories"

[Jordy]

Hi!

I have setup a phoca gallery.

Now I would like to tell each of my page's visitors about whats new in my gallery. So I would like to place some kind of "Latest Gallery Pictures" or "Latest Gallery Categories" view on my site. In Joomla there is a Module for latest articles but that dooesn't help me since I don't add articles when adding new image categories and images.

How can achieve this? Is there some module I can use?

Thanks
Jordy

[reko]

hi,
you can try the phoca image module: there's a setting "Image Ordering - set image ordering (Random Image, Latest Image, ...)" which shows you the latest image added. https://www.phoca.cz/documentation/categ ... age-module

or you could enable the statistcs panel below the gallery(-component). see example here: https://www.phoca.cz/demo/modal-box

/rk

[Jordy]

Thats new to me. I will try it out but it seems not be exactly what I need. I thought about the problem... the thumbnail views takes a lot of spaces. I would need something like a news module displaying text like this:

Gallery News

Holidays / Mexico'08:
> 6 pictures added
Holidays / Canada'09:
> New category
> 289 pictures added
Art /Oil Paintings:
> 55 pictures added

This means a display that tells the user the changes since his last login. I suppose there is no joomla extension for this?

Hmmm... I wonder how other users work around this. This should be a very common problem? I think it would be very annoying manually writing this in an article :-/

[BelGer7172]

Hi Jordy,

Is this issue resolved, if yes...please tell me how.

I also want this on my frontpage, but the "Latest news" module doesn't seem to do the trick.

Many thanx for any reply.

Ger

[wolkmx]

This is a very old post...

But well, I think you need to develop your own module to show this.

I think that is not hard, you only need to make a module that consult the DB and check the date of the photos so, you check the news photos, recovery their category id, later, recovery the info of the category and construct the links to each category and show in a list.

Because the phoca gallery component and module don´t have this option.

[BelGer7172]

Hi wolkmx,

Create myself a new module.... mmmm.

To show you what I know about programming I can show you how I used to programm :

10 CLS
20 screen 1
30 goto 10



Again, thnx for your post, but I think I have to wait until phoca makes such a module. When I have to do it, I expect I get the whole internet defected

Ger from BelGer

[wolkmx]

Jeje, sounds like basic or "ensamblador" jeje, but well maybe you need to writte a new post asking for a improvement, if i have time and i don't promise nothing, i will try to develop a simple module like this, because maybe some client ask me for something like this too. So if i can make it i post here the info.

See you.