Joomla: Panoramic Image Viewer Plugin

Written by Andreas Berger

Saturday, 19 April 2008 07:47

The bretteleben.de "Panoramic Image Viewer" plugin for Joomla 1.5 is a simple plugin to display 360 degree images in content items. It works with JavaScript, neither flash nor any other player is required.
You decide if the panorama scrolls automatically on pageload or is directed with control elements.

bretteleben.de "Panoramic Image Viewer" Plugin for Joomla 1.5

The bretteleben.de Plugin Panoramic Image Viewer works with Joomla 1.5.

The plugin offers two different modes - with controls or scrolling automatically..
If you activate "Start at pageload" in the backend, the panorama starts scrolling on pageload. If you deactivate the option, beyond the panorama control elements are shown, which can be used to start/stop the panorama.

New in Version 1.1.0:

- align the panorama left-center-right
- choose to use text or buttons as control elements
- choose to scroll left or right with autoscroll enabled
- choose the starting-position of your image
- use more than one panorama in one article
- use more than one article with one or more panoramas on bloglayout-pages like frontpage, category, section
- link the panorama
- set the target for the link to top or blank

Installation and Usage

A step by step tutorial on installation and usage can be found at Howto Plugin .

Notice before update:
If you have modified the style sheet bepiv.css, save it before update, it gets overwritten.

Demo

Compatibility

The plugin is tested successful with Joomla 1.5.6, 1.5.7 and 1.5.8. Anyway, using it aside with one or another existing plugin/modul/component may bring to light problems i haven't foreseen.
I suggest a test run before using it on a live site and stand by for your questions and suggestions.

As far as JavaScript and CSS are involved, the plugin is tested by now as follows:


Internet Explorer	6
Internet Explorer	7.0	J
Internet Explorer	8b2	J
Firefox	3.0.5	J
Firefox	3.1b2	J
Opera	9.60	J
Safari	3.11	J
Chrome	1.0.x	J

License

The plugin is licensed under the GNU Public License (www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html).

update Version: 1.1.0

Version 1.1.0 - 2009-02-14

- align the panorama left-center-right
- choose to use text or buttons as control elements
- choose to scroll left or right with autoscroll enabled
- choose the starting-position of your image
- use more than one panorama in one article
- use more than one article with one or more panoramas on bloglayout-pages like frontpage, category, section
- link the panorama
- set the target for the link to top or blank

Version 1.0.2 - 2008-11-07

- set CSS-Values for padding, margin and border of the panorama-image to zero per default
- exchanged "onload" with "window.addEvent('load',f);" to prepare for multiple use of the event

Version 1.0.1 - 2008-11-03

- the CSS-classes of arrows do not correspond between script and stylesheet bepiv.css: corrected
- Firefox spits when width and height of scaled images are delivered with decimal places: corrected

Version 1.0.0 - 2008-10-25

Support

If you have questions or suggestions, please use the comment-function. Records about the behavior of this extension (positive or negative) are most welcome.

If you use this extensions, you have the possibility to post a rating and a review at joomlaos.de or extensions.joomla.org . Furthermore I appreciate everyone, supporting me with a link back to www.bretteleben.de on his/her website. The extension itself does not produce any hidden links, eastereggs or whatever.

Download

The ZIP-archive contains the plugin, by downloading it you agree to the terms of the GNU Public License. The ZIP-Archive can be used for both, upgrade and fresh installation.

Downloads:
File	Last Modified
plugin_bepiv_1.1.0.zip	2009-02-15

Last Updated on Wednesday, 13 January 2010 09:09

Comments (61)

Multi page articles

61 Saturday, 26 June 2010 11:38

Gian Luca Brizi

This is a plugin very usefull. I produce panoramas and is very useful to show the little image and the rolling big image at the same time. The lowres image is still and the rolling one (plugin) is below. I am afraid to know that only one plugin session is possible per article. If you write an article with two pages, in witch there is a plugin session, the plugin session inserted the second page will not work. The tird page I didn't made .... thaks.

Example: http://www.isoladelgiglio.com/it/fotografie/panorami.html

@Gian Luca Brizi

Wednesday, 21 July 2010 20:51

A. Berger

Hi Gian Luca!

Sorry for my late response - and thank's for pointing me at this. It seems indeed to be a bug of the plugin and I will adress it with the next update.

Best regards
Andreas

images in the piv

60 Monday, 03 May 2010 06:29

joselee

Does the plugin work with a single image or several images, {*bepiv}foldername/imagename{/bepiv},

@joselee

Monday, 03 May 2010 20:02

A. Berger

Hi joselee!

One image, refer to "Howto Plugin" (menu at the left).

Best regards
Andreas

@Markus Beck

59 Monday, 08 March 2010 22:06

A. Berger

Hallo Markus!

Stimmt, jede Instanz des Plugins ist für jeweils ein Panorama ausgelegt. Ein Auswahlmenü (oder Thumbnails) gibt es bislang nicht.

Gruß
Andreas

Mehrere Panoramabilder auf einer Seite

58 Monday, 08 March 2010 07:58

Markus Beck

Hallo Andreas,

ist es möglich mehrere verschiedene Panoramabilder zu konfigurieren? Da man in der Plugin-Konfiguration die Bildgröße und die URL angeben muss, gehe ich davon aus, dass das bisher nicht funktioniert. Ist das so?

Viele Grüße
Markus

Re: Edit

57 Friday, 25 December 2009 15:39

iwd

hab die Antwort über CSS gelöst:

.besps_slides {
z-index:-1;
}

Edit

56 Friday, 25 December 2009 14:36

iwd

Ein super Plugin, wirklich toll. Habe es getestet und in meine Website integriert.

Dennoch bleibt mir eine Frage ungeklärt:

Ich möchte dass die Buttons nicht unter der Slideshow sich befinden, sondern, dass diese auf dem Bild positioniert sind.

Wenn ich margin-top:-10px; beispielsweise zuweise, verschwinden die Buttons hinter der Slideshow. Das ist aber doof.

Wo kann ich das HTML oder PHP bearbeiten?
Oder wie kann ich sonst bestimmen, dass die Buttons auf der slideshow positioniert werden?

Ich möchte die Buttons durch transparente Buttons austauschen und sie über die Slideshow postionieren( nicht drüber, sondern über - im Sinne von "auf" der Slideshow).

Ich freue mcih auf Feedback

@Andreas Müller

55 Monday, 09 November 2009 18:32

A. Berger

Hallo Andreas!

Wenn Du Dir die Anleitung durchliest, dann siehst Du, dass der Wert "Scroll Step" die Schrittweise in Pixel festlegt, um die das Bild bei jeder Bewegung weiterverschoben wird. Modernere Browser sind anscheinend so tolerant, die Angabe 0.5 hinzunehmen, der Internet Explorer 6 nicht. Recht hat er, es gibt keine halben Pixel.
Wenn Du das Scrollen verlangsamen möchtest, dann hast Du neben der Schrittweite aber auch noch den Parameter "Scroll Speed", vergrößere den Wert und das Panorama scrollt langsamer.

Gruß
Andreas

Step Einstellung

54 Monday, 09 November 2009 13:50

Andreas Müller

Hallo Andreas,
leider wird bei einem Step Scroll von 0.5 im IE 6 das Bild unbewegt stehen.
Gibt es eine Möglichkeit den Wechsel zu verlangsamen, ohne dass man 0, Einstellung benutzten muss?

Bei der Geschwindigkeit von 1, ist der Panoramawechsel immer noch zu schnell, so dass Besucher von dem Inhalt abgelenkt werden.

Danke dir für die Mühe,
über ein kurzes Feedback wehre ich sehr erfreut!!!

Gruß
Andreas

@Björn

53 Thursday, 29 October 2009 23:20

A. Berger

Hi Björn!

I confess, at the moment I'm a little mad at this plugin, or myself, or both :)
Once a week or so I have it on my screen because I would like to come up with a new version that allows to display 3D panoramas too - and put it away after some time because what I have up till now is not fast enough for practical use. This is the main reason why there have not been updates for the plugin and the module for a while.
Anyway - If I am not able to get a working version up and running soon, I will put this aside and yes, as soon as this happens other improvements will bubble up the todo-list :)

Best regards
Andreas

Ongoing right/left stop position

52 Thursday, 29 October 2009 22:19

Björn

First of all thanks for the work at that plugin. Very comfortable usage and perfect for such Joomla rockies like me ;-).
Now my question. Is there an ongoing for request of Stranger (43 Montag, 01. Juni 2009 um 18:10)? Is it planed to imlement such a feature?
Many thanks in advance