There are many options available for creating and displaying slideshows online (such as here and here, for example). For this tutorial, I've decided to integrate SlideShowPro with Expression Engine to easily build a beautiful photo gallery.
Create a Slideshow with SlideShowPro and ExpressionEngine – New Plus Tutorial
Apr 22nd in News by Andres Fernandez
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Overview
This week's screencast + tutorial will demonstrate how to perform the following:
- Install Expression Engine
- Setup a weblog and custom fields in Expression Engine
- Create template files
- Create the xml template which utilizes the expression engine weblog entries tag and that syncs to slideshowpro
- Use the slideshowpro flash file
- Enter data in the weblog
- Install a custom file uploader extension
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User Comments
( ADD YOURS )lawrence77 April 22nd
really nice…
I always love slideshows!
But its published below the old post how?
( )kiziel April 22nd
Nice, but I still dont like expressionengine. Its too expensive.
( )Paul Cripps August 26th
kiziel – core version is free! – other version are worth every penny as far as I’m concerned – the support you get it the best I’ve ever seen.
( )rich April 22nd
not sure if its just me, but neither link’s video matches the audio, and it is very difficult to follow. Is this just me, on my machine?
( )Jeffrey Way April 22nd
Hey Rich – I’ll look into it right now.
( )Yoosuf April 23rd
hey jeff, u re using MAC?
iPad April 22nd
We need more MODx Tutorials, EE is to expensive
( )kiziel April 22nd
Never seen MODx before but what I see on their website looks really interesting. Some article about it would be really helpful!
( )Kevin Quillen April 22nd
modX seems very draconian.
( )lebisol April 22nd
actually core version of EE is free
( )Lamin Barrow April 22nd
Have you heard of Silverstripe? Try it once and i bet you willl use it for everything.
( )Howard Grigg April 23rd
There is currently development to integrate SlideShowPro with Silverstripe management here http://www.silverstripe.org/all-other-modules/show/256209
Kevin Quillen April 23rd
In what capacity? It looks like any other CMS to me.
barry April 23rd
Quit yer bitchin’.
Good tut.
( )Andres F April 22nd
Although it plays fine on my machine as a .mov file, the sound apparently didn’t sync properly in the conversion to the m4v format when it was placed on the site. Looking into the issue. Thanks for your patience.
( )John Henry Donovan April 22nd
If you want to go a bit further with SlideShowPro and ExpressionEngine I have the following tutorial available on my site
http://www.5pieces.com/blog/slideshowpro-and-ee-gallery-part-ii/
the original article is here
http://www.5pieces.com/blog/slideshowpro-and-ee-gallery-module/
( )Daniel April 23rd
why i cant download it?
( )i have XML error
SignatureDoesNotMatch
fix it please.
Mike April 23rd
cool
( )Andres F April 23rd
Not sure why the article is unavailable to download, but I notified the Nettuts Editors and hopefully that will be fixed soon.
The video has been fixed and I am awaiting it to be uploaded to the site.
@John: Yes, I referenced your article in my article, as well as a few others. Thanks for providing that!
( )Andres F April 23rd
Video is fixed. Sorry for the issues!
Article download isn’t yet available for some reason, but the screencast is working again. Thanks
( )John Henry Donovan April 24th
Nice one Andres
( )Andres F April 26th
Hey, thanks much John! Great job on yours as well.
( )kodegeek June 16th
Hey,
I’ve integrated slideshowpro with ee gallery. you can see this here
http://www.transantarcticexpedition.com
http://www.transantarcticexpedition.com/gallery/
I can help anyone if needed.
( )kodegeek August 21st
Tutorial to Integrate slideshowpro with EE is here
( )http://kodegeek.wordpress.com/2009/08/20/slideshowpro-with-expressionengine-gallery/
lee for the kids October 25th
I want to use slide show pro to create just an ordinary slideshow in expression engine, not an not an integration with the gallery module. How can I can I achieve this.
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