http://omeka.org/forums/ Forums Tag: themes en Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:39:43 +0000 http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-442 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 17:00:18 +0000 kalbers 442@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Sorry about that. Something must have happened during the compression. It should be good to go now. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-440 Fri, 30 May 2008 21:37:44 +0000 mem 440@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Is the newly available Dark theme intact? When I download it, I get an archive with no files in the subdirectories. Trying to install it yields an error message: can't find common/header.php. Are my download attempts all corrupt or are there really no php files there?</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-359 Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:29:10 +0000 SheilaBrennan 359@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi, </p> <p>By the end of this week, we should have a few other themes available for downloading. There will be a blog post announcing the release of the themes once they are officially available. </p> <p>These should help make your site "prettier."</p> <p>Sheila </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-352 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:04:30 +0000 AJMillion 352@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Alright, I'm back. Myself and a coworker have been messing around and had a little success. It's going to take me a little while to get comfortable, but I'll get there. The helper functions are nice too and I should be good to go. Of course, that won't be for a couple of months. No need yet.</p> <p>That said, I have one more question. I had mentioned on a previous thread that I am working on an early stage Digital Project for the University of Missouri Journalism School. Unfortunately, right now myself, another guy, and a Professor are the only ones working on it. We're strapped for everything but content; [I will flat out say that our content is awesome]. Hopefully, the want for other things will change at the end of the month, because we have a meeting with the department. Coincidentally, next year the school will be celebrating the opening of a brand new building and their 100th, 150th, er... some anniversary. A good opportunity to market the project, no? Our J-School is very well funded.</p> <p>Anyway, since we are strapped for time, cash, and experience I was wondering if anyone has advice regarding the quickest way to "clean up" on the display. The administrative side is great and we've got the necessary organization down. It would just be nice to have Omeka look "prettier." Any suggestions? Does anyone have any developed (or partially developed) themes laying around out there? If everything goes to plan we hope to create our own and submit it, but that's will be later on. We have to get everything working first. Otherwise we may be stuck. Coming here seemed like a quick way to maximize our punch come the end of April, and I'm sure some of you have been here before.</p> <p>If you have any questions or suggestions, by all means, e-mail me. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-278 Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:50:06 +0000 AJMillion 278@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Jeremy,</p> <p>Thanks! I'll keep you updated. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-246 Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:00:10 +0000 JeremyBoggs 246@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi AJ,</p> <p>There's quite a bit more PHP in our theme templating than with WordPress, mainly because 1) there are much more data available to pull into Omeka themes than WordPress themes, and 2) because its a young templating system, and we're still evolving ways to make more helper functions that users need.</p> <p>There are a couple of ways to get data into your themes. One involves using variables and their properties. Example:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo $item-&gt;title; ?&gt;</code></p> <p>This code would echo the title of the item. On some pages (like in the items directory) <code>$items</code> and <code>$item</code> are pre-defined, so you don't need to define them. On other pages, you'd have to define them, like <code></code><code>&lt;?php $item = item(10); ?&gt;</code>, which would define <code>$item</code> as the item with the ID of '10'.</p> <p>Another way is to use help functions, as I mentioned earlier. We've listed all the helper functions in the Codex, but if you're interested in looking at the code for the helper functions, they're all located in <code>application/helpers</code> directory of your Omeka install.</p> <p>I hope this helps! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-233 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:36:50 +0000 jsafley 233@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>The iPaper and PdfMeNot plugins are all ready for download. See <a href="http://omeka.org/blog/2008/03/12/access-your-documents-in-omeka-with-ipaper-and-pdfmenot/">this post</a> for more details. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-229 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:54:32 +0000 jsafley 229@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I agree that too many iPaper documents on one page would be oppressive (on the eyes and on the bandwidth). Some sort of pagination would be preferable. The first release of the iPaper and PdfMeNot plugins will be without this capability, but we'll look into it for subsequent releases.</p> <p>Would you (or anybody else) like to make this happen after we release these plugins? It'll be a good way to introduce yourself to Omeka's plugin architecture. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-228 Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:47:44 +0000 kerim 228@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I'm not sure it would be nice to have 6 or seven embedded documents on a single page. A better way to do it (for the plugin) would be to display the first one and then have links to the other documents - or perhaps a menu, or just "next" and "previous" links. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-227 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 23:15:09 +0000 SharonLeon 227@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hi AJMillion,</p> <p>Thanks for your post. There was a little typo in the theme links. You should be able to download theme now.</p> <p>I'll leave the WordPress editing advice to those designers with more experience. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/available-themes#post-226 Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:47:34 +0000 AJMillion 226@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I'm in the process of playing with Omeka but can't download the two basic themes from the website. The page is down. I could just go back to the server directory and pull them out but won't revive access for a few days. Is there a chance that anyone can tell me where I could get them in the meantime?</p> <p>Additionally, does anyone have any advice for someone familiar with Wordpress who is going to messing around with Omeka's themes? </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-217 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:49:36 +0000 KrisKelly 217@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Actually, file_download_uri() is meant to be passed a file rather than an item, so the way it works is like this:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo file_download_uri($item-&gt;Files[0]); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>That will work if you only have one file per item.</p> <p>Otherwise, you should do something like this:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php foreach($item-&gt;Files as $file): echo file_download_uri($file); endforeach; ?&gt;</code> </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-214 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:29:25 +0000 kerim 214@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Thanks. The current site is just a proof-of-concept so its good to have a working link before the plugin is ready. I feel really confident about using Omeka for this project now! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-213 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:13:52 +0000 jsafley 213@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Instead of:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo file_download_uri($item); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>Try:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo WEB_FILES . &#39;/&#39; . $item-&gt;Files[0]-&gt;archive_filename; ?&gt;</code></p> <p>This results in a direct link to the first file assigned to the item. (Remember that you can assign more than one file per item.)</p> <p>This solution still has problems, so I recommend that you wait for the Omeka iPaper plugin I wrote. It's configurable and (relatively) stable, and it'll be ready for download in a couple of days. I'll update this forum topic when it's available. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-209 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:57:14 +0000 kerim 209@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I seem to be running into a new problem now. The code I was using worked fine as long as:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo file_download_uri($item); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>$item was the same as the number of the file I was downloading. However, later I added some files and deleted some more ... so when I upload a new file the file number is 9, even though the item number is still 3. Now iPaper cannot find the correct link because there is no file at:</p> <p><a href="http://kerim.joyeurs.com/omeka/files/download/4/fullsize" rel="nofollow">http://kerim.joyeurs.com/omeka/files/download/4/fullsize</a></p> <p>The file should be at:</p> <p><a href="http://kerim.joyeurs.com/omeka/files/download/9/fullsize" rel="nofollow">http://kerim.joyeurs.com/omeka/files/download/9/fullsize</a></p> <p>How do I fix this?</p> <p>Thanks! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-208 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:30:03 +0000 jsafley 208@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Wow, it was you who got them to fix it. Great job! </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-207 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:27:10 +0000 jsafley 207@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>kerim: OK, I finally got iPaper working in my Omeka installation. All that was needed was an empty div tag with an id of "embedded_doc" -- this is where the the iPaper is embedded. This div tag was not included in the QuickSwitch installation instructions for several days, but it's there now.</p> <p>If you wait a few days you can download the Omeka <strong>iPaper plugin</strong> that I just wrote. It's fully configurable within the Omeka admin interface and displays iPapers on the admin item show page (with a simple function call you can add the same functionality to your public themes).</p> <p>Thanks for initiating this interesting and much needed plugin. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-206 Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:20:32 +0000 kerim 206@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Problem solved!!!</p> <p>From the <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/scribd-platform-developers/browse_thread/thread/fff59d76bf689d1b">iPaper Forums</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>Hi Kerim,<br /> Oops! You caught a bug on our side. The QuickSwitch page was<br /> showing an invalid embed code in that mode, missing a "div" tag.<br /> If you re-copy the code from the QuickSwitch page now, it should<br /> work. Very cool to see iPaper being used in Omeka!<br /> Best,<br /> Jared </p></blockquote> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-196 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:24:09 +0000 kerim 196@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Using the emed codes from both Scribd and PDFmenot I am able to hard-code PDFs into my site. So it seems it should be possible to get iPaper platform to work as well. iPaper is better because it offers search... </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-195 Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:11:52 +0000 kerim 195@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Thanks for getting back to me. And glad to know you are looking into it.</p> <p>Do you know of any other ways to display documents inline on Omeka webpages? </p> <p>I'm trying to emulate this excellent web archive using Omeka (since my server doesn't support Java and I'm much more comfortable with PHP apps):</p> <p><a href="http://www.sudanarchive.net/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sudanarchive.net/</a></p> <p>I had hoped that iPaper + Omeka would do the trick ... but maybe there is another way?</p> <p>So far the only thing I can find that is similar is <a href="http://pdfmenot.com" rel="nofollow">http://pdfmenot.com</a> however, that requires a link ending in ".pdf" and doesn't seem to work with Omeka's links which look like ".../omeka/files/download/1/fullsize." Also, iPaper can do .doc files which pdfmenot cannot. And iPaper seems as if it will be around for a while, whereas pdfmenot may not. Still, I suppose it could be easy enough to switch from one solution to another using a plugin, and I could convert all our .doc files to PDFs if need be... but I still don't know how to deal with the need for ".pdf" links... </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-193 Mon, 03 Mar 2008 18:56:30 +0000 jsafley 193@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Hello kerim. We want Omeka to work with as many APIs as possible, so this issue is important to our continuing development. Unfortunately I've not been able to make iPaper work in my Omeka installation either. I went as far as to write an Omeka plugin that dynamically includes the scripts in the item show page. I got the same result: valid source code but no output. I'll look further into it, but for now I have no solution. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/integrating-ipaper#post-188 Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:19:55 +0000 kerim 188@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I'm attempting to integrate the iPaper platform with my Omeka site to display pdf and word documents. However, I seem to have a problem. I've written the iPaper folks, but maybe someone at Omeka can help to.</p> <p>I've used the instructions on this page:</p> <p><a href="http://www.scribd.com/platform/documentation/quickswitch" rel="nofollow">http://www.scribd.com/platform/documentation/quickswitch</a></p> <p>Choosing "single link" and "Embedded iPaper directly on page."</p> <p>Where it says to insert the URL of the file, I've used the code:</p> <p><code>&lt;?php echo file_download_uri($item); ?&gt;</code></p> <p>(this is on the show.php file in the minimalist template).</p> <p>You can see the page here:</p> <p><a href="http://kerim.joyeurs.com/omeka/items/show/1" rel="nofollow">http://kerim.joyeurs.com/omeka/items/show/1</a></p> <p>Right now there is no link at all where this code appears - although everything looks good when I look at the source code of the resulting HTML page.</p> <p>Any help would be appreciated. They do say it might take some time to appear - but they also say a regular link to the document should appear until the iPaper is ready... So far I have neither. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/bug-switching-themes#post-78 Wed, 26 Dec 2007 04:11:00 +0000 DaveLester 78@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>I noticed this as well and put a ticket up on TRAC to fix the problem before the next release. Thanks for catching this as well. </p> http://omeka.org/forums/topic/bug-switching-themes#post-75 Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:45:07 +0000 kerim 75@http://omeka.org/forums/ <p>Strange behavior when switching themes. I have to do it twice before the results "stick." </p>