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Hi there,

We need to integrate some sort of flash slideshow for one of our clients, and imagevueX looks great

The problem is that, apparently, it's only "filesystem" based.

Is there any way for me to provide the script with a XML file (or any other format, I'd extract it from our database into whatever is needed) where thumbnails and images are specified?

The problem is that we have a "secure" image server, which checks if the user is authenticated before serving the image, and there's no real "physical" access to the directory where the images are stored

Have you seen the slideshow at SuicideGirls? We want something like that

http://suicidegirls.com/join/gallery/

Thanks people! Let's work this out

mjau-mjau wrote:It is technically possible, but it isn't feasible for us to work with pure XML communication before the release of our new version.

We had to go with another product as we were in a little hurry, but I'll keep an eye on imagevueX.

How is it "technically possible"? Should we rewrite the image loading functions for them to load from XML or is there anything else?

The mythical question is: when will you release the next version?

Thanks!!

mjau-mjau wrote:Sorry about that -

It is "technically possible" because Imagevue generally uses XML to read folder structures and to list images in a specific folder. So, I guess if you were able to change the PHP scripts (for example www.photo.gallery/imagevue/dir.php - view source) to output the XML based on your own requirements ...

Hey, maybe I could try that! The problem is that I'm using Symfony as my PHP framework, so it would be difficult to integrated. The ideal situation would be to have imagevueX read directly a XML file, instead of it accessing dir.php but thanks, I'll give it a shot