In this posting I want to demonstrate how to make Gallery use RSS.
You can use the Gallery wizard for the basic settings, but I found clicking through all the pages of the wizzard to annoying. So I looked the settings up in config.php and rss.php and edited them directly there. (Saved me also to always change file permissions)
My config.php contains the following lines:
| $gallery->app->rssEnabled = “yes”; |
| $gallery->app->rssMode = “thumbs”; |
| $gallery->app->rssMaxAlbums = “25”; |
| $gallery->app->rssVisibleOnly = “yes”; |
| $gallery->app->rssDCDate = “no”; |
| $gallery->app->rssBigPhoto = “no”; |
| $gallery->app->rssPhotoTag = “yes”; |
The other options for rssMode are: basic (default, displays only highlighted pic), thumbs-with-captions (all pics in album with name). I went for thumbs which shows all pic in the album and thus giving a nice overview.
The next thing I changed was the refresh interval. I do not want to produce unnecessary traffic, because the changes and adds to the album are restrained. There for I had to edit rss.php to look like this:
| <ttl>1440</ttl> |
where the number represents the refresh time in minutes.
If you want to see the final product import this feed into your RSS-reader (e.g. liferea).
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