Conception: Couloir MOSImage Component
Happy New Year everyone! So, I was going to post a bunch of holiday photos from the weekend, but then as I was thinking about the process and the look of this site to have images in a post, I thought to myself, "I would really like to make a module that featured Coulior Slideshow and LightBox, and could be used in any Joomla content item."
So, this is the conceptual stage. Taras Mankovski has already made a module for Joomla that combines Couloir and Lightbox . However, this module is designed for a single usage on a site. I'm thinking I may use this as a starting point, or at least inspiration. If any of you are interested in helping develop or test this as I pursue such an endeavor, please let me know!
My thinking is to use the MOSImage aspect of Joomla to add images to include in the slideshow in a content item. I figure, this frontend for adding images is already in Joomla, you can't uninstall it (although I have disabled/hid it), so I might as well use it. I believe it also adds the list of images as a single string for each post into the database. This should make parsing with PHP or JavaScript easier.
I don't know much about how Couloir works, but I imagine all this would take is allowing multiple instances of this class to be created on a single page. I don't know if this would cause memory issues, but we'll try.
I also assume I will (eventually) need to create some options for what to do for things like data feeds, but that's ways down the road.
So, if anyone is interested, please contact me, or comment this post… and I'll let you know when I make any progress!