This covers how to populate your site with content.

View all content options at http://demo.smartcj.com/. You can mix different options even within a single category.

Quick reminder: Embed content displays as part of your site. External content (like FHG) displays separately.

Basic FHG option - Standard FHG import (called “Regular Links 2 FHG” in the demo). This is external content. New rotation makes FHG convenient for multiniche sites and archives—navigation and sorting are auto-generated, and thumbnails rotate. Import URLs normally in Rotation - Import.

Sponsor FLV Embed - Create embed content from sponsor videos. This displays as part of your site. Embed videos have two parts: player and video file. Sponsors can provide this in two ways:

1. Sponsor provides full embed code (starts with <object etc.). Their player handles playback and can include ads. Add these galleries normally, selecting the embed code field in the pattern.
2. Sponsor provides a video URL (usually FLV) and thumbnail. You play it with your player and add your own ads. A free player is included (scj/tube/player). In Pattern, select FLV URL and FLV Preview Thumb. If you omit the preview thumb but have a thumb, the script uses the thumb as preview (and vice versa). Optionally set the video size in import; if omitted, the preview thumbnail size is used. Content defaults to the content_custom_flv template.

The demo shows the second option (Sponsor FLV Embed and Sponsor FLV 2).

Here's an example import format:

Pattern: FLV_URL|desc|preview_thumb|thumb
Example import string:
http://sponsor.com/1.flv|best movie|http://sponsor.com/preview.jpg|http://sponsor.com/preview.jpg

Custom Galleries

The script can build its own galleries from FHG and display them as embed or external content. The Import section has a Create Custom Galleries option. Custom galleries can be created separately, but we'll cover them here as part of new rotation.

Here's what happens: you provide an FHG URL, the script creates a custom gallery, auto-generates thumbnails, and adds them to rotation.

Grab Options - Three options determine what you host vs. what the sponsor hosts (FHG Embed Hotlink, FHG Embed Half, FHG All Hosted). These settings affect how galleries are created (e.g., http://demo.smartcj.com/gallery/Amazing_pictures_/3110566a5b8e9ea081e91400d0c47083/index.html). Rotation thumbnails follow the same rules.

Create Custom Galleries - Enable this option.

Grab Options explained:

- Hotlink everything - thumbnails stay on the sponsor's host, saving your bandwidth. However, hotlinking may be blocked, and sponsor thumbnails may not fit your design. - Make Thumbs\Hotlink big - the script creates custom thumbnails using your crop profile, but links to large images/videos point to the sponsor's host. - DL All - download all gallery content to your server and create thumbnails using your crop profile.

To summarize: configure rotation settings above, then gallery creation settings in Create Custom Galleries. The names FHG Embed Hotlink, FHG Embed Half, and FHG All Hosted reflect the hosting choice.

Custom galleries are flexible—for example, you can crop gallery images (like FHG Skimmed). Embed galleries display as part of your site using your chosen template (editable in Rotation - CMS Pages). Default gallery links look like http://your_domain/gallery/some_desc/kjjh3289_ETO_MD5_of_gallery/index.html

Create custom galleries from ZIP archives (ZIP only). In Import, paste the URL to the ZIP file in the Url field.

Note: galleries from archives are always custom galleries, and content must be downloaded (DL ALL), not hotlinked.

Create galleries from a directory of files. Files must be named numerically: 1.jpg, 2.jpg, or 1.avi, 1.mpg. Thumbnails should be tn_1.jpg, tn_2.jpg.

Place files in scj/tmp/somename. In Import, enter somename as the URL. If the URL lacks http:, the script treats it as a folder name in /scj/tmp/.

In List Thumbs, each thumbnail has 2-4 action links:

Edit Thumb - modify the thumbnail. Edit Item - edit the gallery's rotation settings (how it appears in rotation, descriptions, groups, etc.). List Thumbs - view all thumbnails in the gallery (shows all if the gallery has multiple thumbnails). Gallery Edit - if the thumbnail belongs to a custom gallery, edit the gallery here. You can manually reorder thumbnails.

When importing, specify the category (group) for new thumbnails. Beyond regular categories, there are 2 special options:

• Tag based - Galleries automatically enter a category if their tag matches the category name exactly.
• Filter keywords - In group settings, list keywords to filter galleries. The script searches in alt text, description, and tags. Syntax: | = OR, space = AND, - = NOT. Example: car|truck -moto matches galleries with “car” OR “truck” but NOT “moto”.

By default, the script finds partial word matches. To refine searches:

Quotes ““ - Match exact phrases. “word1 word2” matches “word1 word2 zzzz” but not “word1 zzz word2” (words must be adjacent).

^ = start of word - word normally matches “words” and “prewords”. Use ^word to match “word” and “words” only (word at the start).

$ = end of word - word normally matches “word” and “words”. Use word$ to match “word” only (exact word or word at the end).

If your group names exactly match names in the import, use the Groups (Categories) option in the pattern.

scj_unfiltered - When using ImportSets, some galleries may fail keyword filtering. Create a group named scj_unfiltered (exact spelling), and unmatched galleries will go there. You can hide it from your site and periodically review it for new keywords.

When using slave descriptions, you can add the correct slave description during import. See Pattern.

Convert existing galleries to custom galleries. Before version 50, you had to delete and re-add them. Now go to Rotation - Import and select “Convert to custom galleries” in Extra Options.

Transfer thumbnails with CTR data (impressions and clicks). Export creates new fields, and import accepts the same format.

Import gallery ratings as numbers. For example, import 5 for one vote with rating 5. For complex ratings, use #1*10,2*20 (10 votes of 1, 20 votes of 2).

Import a list of images for custom galleries using the Image List field. It's comma-separated. You can set thumbnails directly instead of having the script generate them.

Example format: desc|imagelist

bla-bla|http://image_url1#http://thumb_url1,http://image_url2#http://thumb_url2