Radiant CMS Filmstrip Extension

Features

• Allows you to create a filmstrip gallery in Radiant and display on a page.
• Loading order of images in the filmstrip can be adjusted using drag-and-drop reordering.
• Filmstrip images are pulled-in to the Flash via and XML file produced in the *.rxml views in app/views/filmstrips.

Requirements

Imagemagick
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php

SWFObject
http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject

Gems/Plugins

Paperclip, http://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip/tree/master

Rmagick, http://rmagick.rubyforge.org

How to Install

Grab the extensions from GitHub and place it in vendor/extensions

  git clone git://github.com/scullygroup/radiant-filmstrip.git vendor/extensions/filmstrip

Run the following commands:

  rake radiant:extensions:filmstrip:migrate
  rake radiant:extensions:filmstrip:update

How to Use

Be sure to vendor Paperclip in environment.rb

config.gem 'thoughtbot-paperclip',
           :lib => 'paperclip',
           :source => 'http://gems.github.com'
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In your template, reference swfobject.js:


  <script src="/javascripts/swfobject.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Then, create a section like the following, wherever you want the filmstrip to appear:


  <div id="filmstrip"></div>
  	<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
  	var flashvars = {
  	    xml_path:"/filmstrip"
  	    };
    var params = {
        menu: "false",
        wmode: "transparent"
        };
    var attributes = {};
    swfobject.embedSWF("/swf/filmstrip.swf", "filmstrip", "100%", "290","9.0.0", "", flashvars, params, attributes);
    </script>

  
The code above uses SWFObject to create the Flash embed code, using XML to populate the filmstrip.

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