Comments on: FieldOfSand – Theme for Coppermine Photo Gallery

By: Abbas Ali

Abbas Ali — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:46:32 +0000

Unfortunately there is no release of Field of Sand for v1.5. May be in future

By: Ken

Ken — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:37:44 +0000

Is there a 1.5 version of Field of Sand?

By: vas

vas — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:06:31 +0000

Thanks. I will remove them to suit for 1.4

By: Abbas Ali

Abbas Ali — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:48:09 +0000

@vas: That is because the theme is meant for cpg 1.5. Those extra tokens were introduced in 1.5 and are not present in 1.4.x and hence you get those raw tokens in output.

If you know some php/html then you can explore the theme and remove those tokens.

If I get some free time i will try to convert the theme for 1.4.x.

By: vas

vas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:46:56 +0000

2 more things I found out.

1. When we select a photo to view, it appears in a smaller window than the heade where the e-card and other symbols reside.

2. The link to the photo’s bigger picture is not working. (Means it is not linked)

By: vas

vas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:39:12 +0000

plus this at the top {JAVASCRIPT}

By: vas

vas — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:38:37 +0000

Basic design works. But only the following is shown as code rather than the output.
{MESSAGE_BLOCK}
{SOCIAL_BOOKMARKS}
{KEYWORDMGR_LNK}
{EXIFMGR_LNK}
{PLUGINMGR_LNK}
{BRIDGEMGR_LNK}
{VIEW_LOG_FILES_LNK}
{OVERALL_STATS_LNK}
{CHECK_VERSIONS_LNK}
{UPDATE_DATABASE_LNK}
{EXPORT_LNK}
{PHPINFO_LNK}
{SHOWNEWS_LNK}
Documentation

May be plugins are required?

By: vas

vas — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:38:42 +0000

Thanks I will try. I have received your email.

By: Abbas Ali

Abbas Ali — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:47:13 +0000

@vas: I will send you the theme very soon on the email you provided with the comment.

The problem is that the core cpg dev team consists only of developers. None of us are designers. Hence the default (classic) cpg theme is very simple. Most of the themes you find are user contributed. End users want to make coppermine and their forum (or blog) look same and hence they come up with a cpg theme which looks like their forum (phpBB in most cases) or blog (wordpress in most cases). This is the reason most of the cpg themes are derived from phpBB.

Anyways – dev team is trying hard to come up with fresh themes created from scratch.

By: vas

vas — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 13:40:01 +0000

Thanks for yoyr response Abbas.

Please forward and I will try to make use of it when it makes possible. Thanks.

As you are part of the coopermine team, I have to say that the themes in the cpg are not very diffferent in lay out from each other and many of them have font size very small. I was also bit surprised most of them are from phpBB styles and other forum based themes.

Hope cpg team concentrates more on themes and brings out different layouts.