Apostolos Dountsis

EPIG Add-Ons

EPIG2 has been quite successful with more than 500 downloads. So, it is time to announce the development of two add-ons for the Easy Peasy Image Gallery (EPIG).

Config Editor: Editing XML files may not be straight forward for everyone. This add-on facilitates the customisation of the config.xml by making use of a web form that stores the user’s options in the config.xml. No more manual editing of the config file. You can grab this add-on from the download section.
Album Gallery: In the case that you want to publish more than one set of photos/images. This add-on groups the images in albums. It displays one of the album images as a thumbnail with the album’s title and description. - Currently this is add-on is under development.

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Easy Peasy Image Gallery (EPIG) 2

The new version EPIG is now available to download. This version has been released as EPIG 2 and not as EPIG 1.2. The reason for the jump in the version numbering is that I have re-written more than 90% of the original code and the code structure now follows the MVC methodology.

Instead of one epig class, the new version comprises of seven classes (model, view, controller, three additional views and a general-purpose library class) that should improve the code readability. From the user’s perspective, no additional overhead has been added. All the gallery personalisation can be done through the config.xml file.

The MVC architecture, should make it easier for fellow PHP developers to extend the View class and derive their own presentation styles instead of hacking through my code. I am including three different presentation styles in EPIG 2 that extend the View class (template.php).

One last thing… the home page of EPIG has now moved from Gamecycle to the Dountsis domain. The main reason for the change is that I felt that Gamecycle was not a natural home for PHP projects. The new home page has been updated to reflect the features of EPIG 2.