Usage

Xml format

PhotoEmbed loads gallery data from a simple xml file.

The default location where it looks for the file is the images/directory.xml relative to photoembed.swf.

The xml url can be set by FlashVars variable xmlUrl.

You can also generate the xml file with a php script, in that case xmlUrl would point to a php file.

The xml file should have the following structure:

<root>
  <images>
	<item name="IMG_0190.JPG" thumb="IMG_0190_.JPG" thumbwidth="120" />
	<item name="IMG_0191.JPG" thumb="IMG_0191_.JPG" thumbwidth="90" />
	<item name="IMG_0195.JPG" thumb="IMG_0195_.JPG" thumbwidth="120" />
	<item name="IMG_0196.JPG" thumb="IMG_0196_.JPG" thumbwidth="120" />
	<item name="IMG_0197.JPG" thumb="IMG_0197_.JPG" thumbwidth="200" />
  </images>
</root>

If you don’t set the thumb attribute PhotoEmbed will display the big images as thumbnails.

You can use PhotoAdmin to automatically create the thumbnails and directory.xml.

The thumbwidth attribute is optional – if not set PhotoEmbed will use a default value of 90 px.

Customizing PhotoEmbed

You can customize PhotoEmbed by passing Flash variables:

• xmlUrl – relative path or url of gallery xml; the default value is images/directory.xml
• galleryUrl – relative path or url of the folder containing the images; default value is images
• padding – padding of the movie; buttons and scrollbar are places inside this; default is 8px
• bgColor – background color of the movie; default color is #dddddd
• thumbnails – wether to show thumbnails at startup; default true
• thumbWidth – thumbnail width, only used if there’s no thumbwidth value set in xml; defaults to 90 px
• thumbHeight – thumbnail height; default value is 90 px
• imagePadding – additinal padding around the image; default value is 0 px
• scaleMode
• fit – images are scaled to fit the image area – default value
• fill – images are scaled to fill the images area, some part of the image is not visible
• none – image is displayed in original size

Here is a typical embed code:

<object width="550" height="400">
	<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
	<param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
	<param name="movie" value="/photoembed_1.0/photoembed.swf" />
	<param name="quality" value="high" />
	<param name="bgcolor" value="#eeeeeee" />
	<param name="FlashVars" value="xmlUrl=/photoembed_1.0/images/gal1/directory.xml&galleryUrl=/photoembed_1.0/images/gal1"/>
	<embed src="/photoembed_1.0/photoembed.swf"
		name="photoembed"
		width="550" height="400"
		quality="high" bgcolor="#eeeeee"
		align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain" allowFullScreen="true"
		type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
		FlashVars="xmlUrl=/photoembed_1.0/images/gal1/directory.xml&galleryUrl=/photoembed_1.0/images/gal1"/>
</object>