TTG XML Album Index 1.0 released

TTG XML Album Index is a new album indexing template for the Lightroom Web module, and replaces the newly discontinued TTG Gallery Index.

Through a combination of PHP and XML, the album index is easier than ever to update with new web galleries. It’s no longer necessary to regenerate and re-upload the entire index for every update, as was the case with TTG Gallery Index. TTG XML Album Index gathers album information from a simple XML file. To add a gallery to your index, you need only provide a thumbnail image and four pieces of information — thumbnail path, gallery path, gallery title and description — to the XML file.

TTG XML Album Index is written in Lua. It requires Lightroom 1.3 or higher, and a web server running PHP. Updates require an FTP client and a text-editor. Coding experience is not necessary.

TTG XML Album Index outputs valid XHTML and CSS.

Known Issues: Not all Web module options live update correctly in Lightroom/Mac. I’m not sure why this is, but everything should work when you force a page reload. The easiest way to force reload is to adjust the thumbnail dimensions or quality.

Please read the documentation on the download page for full usage instructions (please let me know if the directions are unclear in any way). Of note, be sure to delete the index.html file from your exported album index. It’s only used to preview the page in LR; on the web server, the index will run from the index.php file.

Download TTG XML Album Index 1.0.

Cheers,
Matt / theturninggate

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