Guggenheim.js

Guggenheim.js is a framework agnostic plugin for creating sexy interactive galleries. It uses CSS3 animation (with a fallback to Javascript) to create animated filtering, reordering and pagination of your gallery.

Usage

Include the guggenheim.js file in your page

<script type="text/javascript" src="/path/to/guggenheim.js"></script>

Set up your gallery like this (I know the class on each element is a bit ugly, but it keeps you safe if you have any sub divs. If you know that isn't the case feel free to omit it and change the selector option when initialising)

<div id="guggenheim-container">
	<div class="guggenheim-slider">
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>1</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>2</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>3</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>4</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>5</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>6</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>7</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>8</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>9</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>10</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>11</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>12</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>13</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>14</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>15</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>16</div>
		<div class='guggenheim-item'>17</div>
	</div>
</div>

Now initialise your gallery

var gallery = guggenheim(element[,options]);

Where element is either the css selector of the container, or the actual DOM element itself. Options is an optional argument that will specify customisation variables. The full range of options is detailed below.

• selector - div.guggenheim-item - The CSS selector for the gallery items. rows - auto - How many rows the gallery should have, if auto it will calculate how many will fit into the container (container must have fixed height). cols - auto - How many columns the gallery should have, if auto it will calculate how many will fit into the container (container must have fixed width).
• duration - 0.5 - How long each animation should last.
• easing - ease - Exasing type for animations, currently supports ease and linear.
• slider - div.guggenheim-slider - CSS
• selector for the internal wrapper element used for the gallery pagination.
• width - null - Integer width for the container in pixels. If null will expect there to be a width set in the css.
• height - null - Integer height for the container in pixels. If null will expect there to be a height set in the css.

Once you have your gallery initialised you can manipulate it by calling one of the methods detailed below on it.

Methods

Filter

gallery.filter(class|classes|filterFunction);

The filter function will filter the items in your gallery based on one of the 3 possible argument types.

• class - If you pass a string through, guggenheim will search for elements that have a class with the same name. You can pass a list of optional classes by seperating them with the | character e.g. 'red|blue'.
• classes - You can also pass an array of class strings through, using the format specified by the class option. Guggenheim will filter to elements that match all supplied class strings.
• filterFunction - Alternatively you can just pass your own function to run on each element.

filter will return an array of the matching elements

Order

gallery.order(newOrder);

The order function will reorder the elements according to the order passed through to it. newOrder should be an array of css selectors that will uniquely identify each element, such as ids, or an array of DOM elements.

order will return an array of the re-ordered elements

Reset

gallery.reset();

The reset function resets the gallery to it's initial, unfiltered, unordered state.

Pagination

gallery.next();
gallery.prev();
gallery.jumpTo(page);

The next, prev and jumpTo buttons are used for paginating through the gallery. There are also currentPage and numPages functions to help integrate with your chosen pagination script.

CSS

The minimum CSS required for this to work is to specify a width and height for the gallery container. You can either set these in CSS or pass them as options to Guggenheim. Guggenheim will add the rest of the required styles.

Examples

Check out the demo page

Plugins

• Paginate.js - A pagination plugin for guggenheim

Building

To build guggenheim you will need to install Jake and uglify-js.

npm install -g jake
npm instal uglify-js

Then just run

jake guggenheim:build

This will minify the file and place it in the dist folder.

Contributing

Please feel free to fork, fiddle, play with this as much as you like. If you add something useful or fix something broken and think it should be in the main repository then please by all means send me a Pull Request and I'll take a look. If possible please add tests.

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Will McKenzie http://oinutter.co.uk

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.