Front Page Slideshow for Drupal

Note: I am no longer maintaining this module. You can download and ask questions about this module on the drupal.org site on the project page at http://drupal.org/project/fpss Front Page Slideshow is a javascript based slideshow script that was originally made for Joomla! by Joomlaworks.gr. The great features and good looks made Front Page Slideshow a bit of software that lots of people wanted on their site, but the only way to implement it in to Drupal was to use the PHP input filter, which in my view was unsatisfactory. So I made a module to maintain all the settings and upload images to stop having to manually edit PHP files. The module can be downloaded at http://code.google.com/p/fpss-drupal/ where the latest version will always be ready to download. As well as having the module, you will need to purchase the Front Page Slideshow from joomlaworks.gr by visiting www.frontpageslideshow.net. On Drupal 5, the FPSS for Drupal module requires that jquery_update is installed. Place the extracted jquery_update and fpss modules to the /sites/all/modules folder and activate through ?q=admin/build/modules. Set up jquery_update as per the modules instructions. You will then need to set the user permissions to admin the slideshow. On ?q=admin/user/access tick the box next to your role to enable access to the slideshow settings which are accessible at ?q=admin/settings/fpss. On the fpss admin page, the default settings should work. In the collapsible fieldset, there are 2 directories listed. These are the folders you need to copy over from the Joomlaworks.gr Front Page Slideshow script. Unzip the static PHP zip file and in the resulting folder is an fpss folder. You then need to copy over the engines, language and templates folders in to the fpss module folder in /sites/all/modules. If you refresh the fpss settings page, next to each of the folders should be green text that says «foldername» folder exists. FPSS is set up correctly, if they is red text next to them there is a problem and you will need to make sure that the folders are all in the right places.

• + modules
  • + fpss
    • + engines
    • + templates
    • - fpss.info
    • - fpss.install
    • - fpss.module

The engines folder doesn't need the Mootools files in it, as the module is made purely to use the javascript engine. The languages used to use the language files in the language folder in the Front Page Slideshow script but I changed this to make it easier to manage by adding the options in the file as a seperate tab of the admin settings located at ?q=admin/settings/fpss/language. The templates list is generated dynamically by scanning the templates folder. So any additional templates can be used by just adding the folder and necessary files in to the template folder. Download FPSS for Drupal Demo site of FPSS for Drupal