customizations

[mbier]

I'm a coppermine newbie and first, I have to say I'm very impressed!   My web hosting company has coppermine available for me to use and I am blown away.

One question:

I'd like to customize the interface as follows and I have no idea about how to do it.

On the initial page, I'd like to to have categories (I hope I'm not misusing the terms). One for my nephew and one for my wife and I.  Maybe latest additions and breadcrumbs too.  I guess I would have thought of the two categories as galleries, each with several albums. (this seems to be the part where my understanding is lacking?)

When I click on one of the two categories (or as I think of them galleries) I would like to see thumbnails of each gallery, not of each user.

Is such a thing currently possible?  I'm not afraid to hack templates if someone can give me some direction.

Again, kudos to the developers for some great stuff!

Regards,

Michael Bierman

[donnoman]

Go through the docs, but just to clarify.

Categories can only hold albums or other categories; No pictures.

Albums can be in categories; Albums only hold pictures; Albums can not be members of other albums; If an album has no category specified then it is in the root category and will be displayed on the front page;

If you only have two logical sets of pictures I would suggest having two albums in the root category.

A change to that would be that if you have a massive amount of pictures and you want to sort them alphabetically. For example I have a test coppermine install where I have two categories in the root and close to a thousand pictures:

Cars

Wallpapers

Under Each of these categories I have albums A - Z.

All cars that begin with A go in the album A, those with F go in album F.  you get the idea.

Or if you want to sort them by year:

Category: Family -> Categories: Ron's, Debbie's

Category: Ron's -> Albums: 2001,2002,2003,2004... etc

Category: Debbie's Albums: 2001,2002,2003,2004... etc.

Does that give you a better idea?

[rubbersoul]

This stinks though as there is no way to have categories with sub-categories and everything having a thumbnail instead of text for the catname.......you have to have text (cat) then sub-text (more cats0 then albums....with your thumbnails and a thumbnail for the album itself!

[Joachim Müller]

This stinks...

Then code a better solution! If you can't, choose your words more wisely.

Why not have a category named "cat" and and two albums within it named "grey cats", "white cats" etc.? Avoid the additional step (sub-category "more cats")  if there's only one option to click.