This is a library built for for Lithium Bootstrap that allows users to create and manage media galleries for an application.

This library comes with a helpful Thumbnail utility class and hooks it up to be used with a route.

This library also utilizes Agile Uploader in order to resize images before uploading them. This allows users to simply add files directly off their digital camera's memory card without worrying about the filesize. So long as they are not RAW images. This library does not, yet, allow users to rotate or crop images though.

Galleries can be created and images can be managed within them from an easy to user interface that includes drag and drop ordering.

Galleries also have RSS feeds available for them.

This library does not make any assumptions for front-end design and you are free to use whatever visualizations and JavaScript you wish for front-end gallery display.

To use this library, make sure that you are either working with the Lithium Bootstrap example application or that you have the li3b_core library and all other dependencies setup.

You will need a MongoDB connection configuration named li3b_mongodb to use this library. This is already configured by default if using the Lithium Bootstrap example application.

You can install this library via the package manager that Lithium Bootstrap comes with. Open up a command prompt and use the command: li3 bootstrap install li3b_gallery

This will automatically add the library for you.

To manually install this library, simply add it like normal, but ensure that it is using Lithium Bootstrap layout templates (unless you wish to use a different layout altogether): Libraries::add('li3b_gallery', array('useBootstrapLayout' => '1'));

Also ensure that it is added after li3b_core.