Album Description

[SpookyDan]

Is there a way to:

1. Make the album description also show up at the top of the thumbnails page?

2. Make the description shown on the album list a shortened version of that?  Possibly cut off after a certain number of characters.

For example: 

On the album list my description would read:
"St. Mary's College also known as "Hell House" was originally named Mount..."

On the top of the thumbnail page my description would read:
"St. Mary's College also known as "Hell House" was originally named Mount Saint Clemens. The religious school for boys was started in the mid 1800s by a religious group calling themselves "The Redemptorists". In 1882 a new chapel was built and encouragement from Pope Poious IX led the Redemptorists to change the name of the school to St. Mary's College."

[SpookyDan]

Under the thumbnail view page options there is a check box for "Display album description" but it still doesnt display the album discription on the thumbnails page no matter what I have it set at.

Still looking for help with this.  I do have my theme pretty much dialed in tho: http://www.urbanatrophy.com/coppermine/index.php

[Stramm]

for 1.3 ... http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=8946.0
you'll have to look for the mentioned function(s) in themes/sample/theme.php and copy them over to the theme you're using. Haven't tested if it works for 1.4 though

[kit99]

It works on 1.48. I am working on my wedding website and very new to php so took me a while to figure it out and it is actually very simple. I modify the code a bit by Jack76 and xplicit http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=8946.0 then  in /themes/myfavoritetheme/theme.php

Find

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    $result = db_query("SELECT description from {$CONFIG['TABLE_ALBUMS']} WHERE aid='$aid'");


Change to

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    $result = cpg_db_query("SELECT description from {$CONFIG['TABLE_ALBUMS']} WHERE aid='$aid'");


Then add

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// HTML template for title row of the thumbnail view (album title + sort options)

<td width="100%" class="statlink"><h2>{ALBUM_NAME}</h2><P><h3>[b]${album_desc}[/b]</h3></p></td>



Thanks all for sharing your code.

[johndankey]

Thanks all for sharing your code.  When I did this from kit99,

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<td width="100%" class="statlink"><h2>{ALBUM_NAME}</h2><P><h3>[b]${album_desc}[/b]</h3></p></td>



{album_desc} shows up blank.  How would you define {album_desc}?

Thanks,

JD

[Sami]

It should be {$album_desc}

[johndankey]

Thanks, Sami.  Um, are you sure about that?  I grepped  {$album_desc} & found nothing.  But I grepped {album_desc} & found nothing either.  Oops.  Checked the boards again & found references here to {ALB_DESC} in the sample theme & theme.inc.php.  They are in function theme_display_album_list & function theme_display_album_list_cat.

The code works for the home page, but not for the album page.  Neither of those functions, when added to theme.php, make a difference.

Elsewhere in sample/theme.php it makes a reference to $album_name.  I grepped that & it seems to be defined in searchnew.php from $album_array.  $album_array is defined in function getallalbumsindb() in searchnew.php. 

Maybe we should have a hair-pulling smilie

JD

[Sami]

okey lets do this again:
- open up themes/your theme/theme.php
- put this function

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// Get the name of an album
function get_album_desc($aid)
{
    global $CONFIG;
    global $lang_errors;
    $result = cpg_db_query("SELECT description from {$CONFIG['TABLE_ALBUMS']} WHERE aid='$aid'");
    $count = mysql_num_rows($result);
    if ($count > 0) {
        $row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
        return $row['description'];
    } else {
        return "Album not found";
    }
}

- and add this to your theme.php after that function

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$album_desc = get_album_desc($_GET[album]);

- and then if you don't have $template_thumb_view_title_row variable on theme.php copy it from include\theme.inc.php and add this to that variable where you want to show the description

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{$album_desc}


I Hope it work for you

[johndankey]

Thanks, Sami, that worked

I included that function, put

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$album_desc = get_album_desc($_GET[album]);
early on in my theme.php & included $album_desc in the $template_thumb_view_title_row variable, for those of you who may want to do this same thing.

Thanks again!

JD