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Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by chrissnell »

john-doe wrote: post #41
chrissnell wrote: post #38

This is the Flickr-style photo layout that I love, but I want it in a static site generator. Does such a generator exist?

`php index.php > index.html` should work, or from your browser “Save As…” index.html

That's a work-around, but not ideal. What I'd love to find is some CSS/JS that can build the beautiful Flickr-style[0] photo grids that I could integrate into a Hugo generator.

[0] Flickr, for those who haven't used it much, came up with a unique way of displaying photos in a "justified" view so that there are no gaps between photos in a page full of images of various dimensions and orientations and so that all images stretch all the way to both edges and and are organized into neat rows with no vertical gaps. Example: https://www.flickr.com/photos/defender90/albums/721576700986...

Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by chrissnell »

chrissnell wrote: post #111
john-doe wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

`php index.php > index.html` should work, or from your browser “Save As…” index.html

That's a work-around, but not ideal. What I'd love to find is some CSS/JS that can build the beautiful Flickr-style[0] photo grids that I could integrate into a Hugo generator. [0] Flickr, for those who haven't used it much, came up with a unique way of displaying photos in a "justified" view so that there are no gaps between photos in a page full of images of various dimensions and orientations and so that all image…

Just did some DDG noodling. Turns out, Flickr themselves have open-sourced this!

https://github.com/flickr/justified-layout

Now to look into porting this to Hugo.

Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by franciscop »

I started to make my own photo gallery, and I found that while the masonry-layout shown here (where different ratio pictures are put together to a common height) looks really pretty, I ended up preferring either cropping/zooming them or adding a margin and keep a square grid.

Why? Because that allows you to easily click and drag a select area and select multiple pictures, where I can then click a button to tag them all at once. With Files Gallery, you cannot drag to select so this doesn't seem a concern, but then again I would love to be able to _manage_ files easily and not just look at them.

Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by EGreg »

tentacleuno wrote: post #92
squarefoot wrote: post #47

The output is very polished and fast, I like it a lot. Unfortunately it's not technically a single file as it depends on code downloaded from their server, therefore it can't be deployed locally without Internet connection. From the forum: "In terms of license, you don't need an internet connection. However, Files app loads it's own Javascript, CSS and several plugins from CDN (jsdelivr.com), and this requires intern…

> In any case, for now it's not possible to load Files app without internet This is a major turn-off IMO. One of the main points of self-hosting is that you don't rely on the outer internet. If a self-hosted service relies on externally hosted resources, does this make it partially self-hosted?

Well, they can simply embed the static resources in the PHP file itself, why not?

Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by SahAssar »

_0w8t wrote: post #75
red_admiral wrote: post #70

I really don't mind charging for software, as developers need to eat as much as the next person. $39 for something like this is really not excessive. But I think it could have been made clearer that (1) you only download one file but it loads more from their CDN, it's not truly "single file" and (2) the free version is heavily limited and gated with a pop-up. That said, I like the demo - it looks really slick and has…

Does it at least specify hashes for files from CDN?

It does not.

Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by lopkeny12ko »

Forgive the dumb question but where is the source code? I can't find a Github (or similar) link.

Edit: Yes I know I can access the source code by simply downloading index.php but I'm looking for a place where I can file issues, submit patches, view commit history, etc.

Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by ezconnect »

NKosmatos wrote: post #65
ropeladder wrote: post #9

As somebody who recently spent two weekends trying to figure out a self hosted photo solution that actually for my needs and was easy to install, this looks fantastic. (I ended up using PhotoView, which works fine, but this looks like it might have been better.)

Hey thanks for sharing with us https://photoview.github.io It's worth a look :-)

Your demo has a login and has no default values for the credentials.

Re: Files – Single-file photo gallery and file manager

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Post by chillfox »

lopkeny12ko wrote: post #117

Forgive the dumb question but where is the source code? I can't find a Github (or similar) link. Edit: Yes I know I can access the source code by simply downloading index.php but I'm looking for a place where I can file issues, submit patches, view commit history, etc.

Doesn't look like there is a public repository. But there is a support forum where you can file issues.

Edit: kinda makes sense reading the license, it is not opensource.

License

Files is free to use with basic features. To remove the license-popup and unlock additional features, you may purchase a license [$39] from within the app.

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