Front page slideshow for Drupal

This is a module to be able to easily configure and add the Front Page Slideshow from JoomlaWorks to Drupal.

The idea is to create a slideshow and add slides as you would add any other story. The slideshow is then set up as a block which can be put anywhere on the site on any page you want.

For the module to work you will have to pay for and download Front Page Slideshow.

Frontpage Slideshow for Drupal is now on drupal.org

This project will no longer be updated on here

Future of Front page slideshow for Drupal?

Development is ongoing. Once the module has been made as solid as possible within Drupal 5 I will try to port it over to 6 and possibly make use of extra features in Drupal 6, this may also mean the removal of the dependency of jquery_update.

Demo

A demo of the front page slideshow for Drupal is available at http://drupal.jamestombs.co.uk

Updates

Update 18/11/2008 - Development release

Fixes:

• Access permissions actually work now
• Changed code to comply with the Drupal standards

New Features:

• Permissions can be set to allow certain users to be able to chose a theme, otherwise they will be restricted to the default theme selecting on the admin page
• Permissions can be set to allow users to add a slide to any slideshow, by default they are only able to add slides to slideshows created by themselves
• Changed upload image feature. Each slide has an upload form and the dependency of the upload module has been removed

Still to do:

• Improve the upload feature to allow uploading of images on a slide update

As always any issues please post them in the Issues section at the top.

Problem with the fpss-20081108_1826 release. Please use the fpss-20081108_0058 release.

Further update 08/11/2008

Release fpss-20081108_1826 has a few changes to try to eliminate any problems with conflicting modules which may also add a slideshow content type.

A database update will need to be run.

Update 08/11/2008

New Features:

• Set a template per slideshow rather than a generic sitewide template
• Able to set the template for each slideshow to random, allowing a new template per page refresh

• Added closing paragraph tags to some of the form item descriptions
• Updated a few descriptions

Update 07/11/2008

• Slide URL has been changed so that external URLs can be used (see issue #6)
• Updated some descriptions on some fields

Update 24/10/2008

Another update. Slightly bigger and more useful update though.

New Features:

• Remove languages folder usage and allow direct input in to Drupal for immediate change of text terms used. Comes with English installed by default. Can be changed through the Front Page Slideshow admin screen.
• Added ability to move javascript to the footer, assuming the theme supports it. Tested on a bare Drupal installation and worked perfectly.

Fixes:

• Permissions should now be set properly for accessing the admin screen.
• Removed the description input on the slide content form as it was unnecessary.

Update 23/10/2008

Another small fix. When editing an existing slide node the Slideshow value isn't set.

Fixed with #default_value.

Have a few little bugs creeping up like not working in Firefox in some settings and slidetext not appearing properly in the slideshow.

Update 22/10/2008

Another small bug fix.

Line 690 was written as:

$sql = "SELECT vid, title FROM {node} WHERE type = '%s' AND status = %d";

Should be:

$sql = "SELECT vid, title FROM {node} n WHERE type = '%s' AND status = %d";

Another one:

Wrong jQuery included.

Update 16/10/2008

Small bug fix for accessing the admin settings under any other user than uid = 1.

I am beginning work on trying to get the slideshow and slide creation work better and hopefully remove the dependency on jquery_update but still have it work with jquery_update, but this may not be possible.

Update 23/05/2008

The code has now been updated to create slideshows as a content type as well as slides. This way you can easily add, edit and delete multiple slideshow. When you create a slide you are giving a list of slideshow to which you can add the slide to. At the moment the module is limited to each slide being associated with only one slideshow. If the same slide is required on 2 different slideshows, the slide must be duplicated and the slideshow changed on the copy.

Javascript now works with existing drupal jQuery functions with jQuery_Update installed. jQuery_Update is now a dependencies of fpss. This updates jQuery to 1.2.3. fpss now works with the following settings configurations:

• Optimize: yes Disable Lib: yes
• Optimize: yes Disable Lib: no
• Optimize: no Disable Lib: yes

fpss doesn't work with the following settings configurations:

• Optimize: no Disable Lib: no

Download Naming Convention

fpss-yyyymmdd_hhmm.zip

• yyyy = year (ex: 2008)
• mm = month (ex: 05)

• dd = day (ex: 23)
• hh = hour (ex: 12)
• mm = mins (ex: 00)

Example

fpss-20080523_1430.zip

This file was uploaded on 23rd May 2008 at 14:30 (2:30PM).