Robert I changed the thread title since we are on now from kudos to
implementation
On 3/23/11 11:19 PM, Robert Mann wrote:
I too found revIGniter a fantastic working work! and pointed that out several
time.
My first site using that though has to be reworked from a speed point of
view because I chose to view pictures with a javascript gallery module that
loads every files at start up... and that also made the cache function of
revIgniter out in the limbs, (does not work in that case). So I'll drop
that.
www.le-saint-claire.com
Robert, here is my simple function to drive a random selection from a
folder of images, the image is loaded once on page load and does not
change until next page load. this may not be what you want...
I so very rarely share anything because I don't trust that anything I
do is professional enough to share...but in case it helps:
I use the assets helper and cache busting and have far future headers
set to 1 year on your server. regular viewers will gradually cache the
images and there will be zero download.. (unless they empty their cache
of course)
Also because the rigImageAsset delivers a fully qualified img src=*
string we have to strip it back to a plain URL for use inside a CSS
background.
As always (I keep forgetting) all functions called have to be on top.
Once I figure out how to do it, I'll probably make my own
rigImageAssetURL helper and load these in base config and get them out
of my controllers.
function getImageURLString pTaggedImage
set the itemdel to quote
return item 2 of pTaggedImage
end getImageURLString
function rotateMastheadBackground
set the defaultFolder to
/home/devhap/public_html/assets/img/masthead/rotation/
put the files into tBackgrounds
put line (random (the number of lines of tBackgrounds)) of
tBackgrounds into tBackground
put (masthead/rotation/ tBackground) into tBackGroundPath
put (rigImageAsset(tBackGroundPath,,,TRUE)) into pTaggedImage
return getImageURLString (pTaggedImage)
end rotateMastheadBackground
Then in the controller call the image into the variable
command index
# like this:
put rotateMastheadBackground() into gData[mastheadBackground]
put rigImageAsset(masthead/KHM-logo.png,,,TRUE) into
gData[khmLogo]
put rigCssAsset(books.css,,,TRUE) into gData[booksCSS]
# SET PAGE TITLE
put Books by Himalayan Academy into gData[pageTitle]
# LOAD THE VIEW FILE
get rigLoadView(sitewide/head)
get rigLoadView(books/books-masthead)
get rigLoadView(sitewide/main-nav)
get rigLoadView(books/books-main-content)
get rigLoadView(books/books-bottom-content)
#get rigLoadView(sitewide/bottom-nav)
get rigLoadView(sitewide/footer)
end index
the only caveat of this is that rigImageAsset can only poke variables in
views, but not in CSS files. So you have to do a little hokey bit by
putting this in the top of your view:
[[gData[booksCSS] ]]
style type=text/css title=masthead media=screen
#masthead{
height:100px;
background-image: url('[[gData[mastheadBackground] ]]');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
/style
/head
body
div id=page-container
# Use this to poke a top div if you want to run a big announcement
# across the top of the page; where you push a view as data in your
controller:
[[gData[siteWideBanner] ]]
div id=masthead
div id=khm-logo
[[gData[khmLogo] ]]
/div
/div!-- masthead --
This actually turned out to be a serendipity advantage because it forced
me to close the head of the document in the masthead view. I normally
don't like to break the DOM like this, (head opens in one view and
closes in another) but in the end I realized it didn't matter since by
design the masthead div will always lead the page. This sudden lead me
to realize I could separate the core CSS for the site and the
dynamically load an override CSS for a particular area that used a
particular masthead view. So, one masthead view could call a different
CSS: magically, then the head of the web pages for
/books
can be different from
/children
etc. and you just keep your logo the same throughout.
I plan move away from the random selection and set up different folders
with series of like images e.g. all flowers, in one, all people in
another, all kids cool images in another and order them by file name,
then the function will write a session var to a file indicating what
header image is currently loading. All viewers will then see the same
image at the same time, and the function will steps thru, e.g. a whole
series of rainbow pix.
And if I want to insert things on top of the masthead you can just put
vars in the mast head and fill them with views. fantastic!
I'm blabbering on and on here.
POINT: this is just way too much fun, way too easy with LiveCode..
imagine doing this in PHP.
Well I can't, because I don't know PHP...
10 minutes of cut and paste lines and controller handlers and magically
now we
