Optional Category layout possible?

[skidpics]

What needs to be done to show 2 columns of categories, with descriptions underneath, then a specified amount of albums showing under that with no thumbnails for the albums?

attached is an example...

[Joachim Müller]

Did you search the board?

[skidpics]

I did, but did not find what I was looking for.  Perhaps I was using the wrong key words to search for.  I will look again. 

[Joachim Müller]

http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=15400.msg107765#msg107765

[skidpics]

Forgive me if I am posting another question, but it goes inline with what I am trying to do:

Category (picture Count)
    Description
    Album,album,albums, etc...

in the theme.php file, what exactly does the {CAT_ALBUMS} tag do?

I can delete it, and there is no difference - it still shows the categories, with the sub categories below.  If I read the tag correctly, should that not show category albums?

// HTML template for the category list
$template_cat_list = <<<EOT
<!-- BEGIN header -->
        <tr>
                <td class="tableh1" width="80%" align="left"><b>{CATEGORY}</b></td>
                <td class="tableh1" width="10%" align="center"><b>{ALBUMS}</b></td>
                <td class="tableh1" width="10%" align="center"><b>{PICTURES}</b></td>
        </tr>
<!-- END header -->
<!-- BEGIN catrow_noalb -->
        <tr>
                <td class="catrow_noalb" colspan="3"><table border="0"><tr><td align="left">{CAT_THUMB}</td><td align="left"><span class="catlink"><b>{CAT_TITLE}</b></span>{CAT_DESC}</td></tr></table></td>
        </tr>
<!-- END catrow_noalb -->
<!-- BEGIN catrow -->
        <tr>
                <td class="catrow" align="left"><table border="0"><tr><td>{CAT_THUMB}</td><td><span class="catlink"><b>{CAT_TITLE}&nbsp;({PIC_COUNT})</b></span>{CAT_DESC}</td></tr></table></td>
                <td class="catrow" align="center">{ALB_COUNT}</td>
                <td class="catrow" align="center">{PIC_COUNT}</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
            <td class="tableb" colspan="3">{CAT_ALBUMS}</td>

        </tr>
<!-- END catrow -->
<!-- BEGIN footer -->
        <tr>
                <td colspan="3" class="tableh1" align="center"><span class="statlink">{STATISTICS}</span></td>
        </tr>
<!-- END footer -->
<!-- BEGIN spacer -->
        <img src="images/spacer.gif" width="1" height="7" border="" alt="" /><br />
<!-- END spacer -->

EOT;

[Joachim Müller]

The token is being populated in this section:

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function theme_display_cat_list($breadcrumb, &$cat_data, $statistics)
{
    global $template_cat_list, $lang_cat_list;
    if (count($cat_data) > 0) {
        starttable('100%');
        $template = template_extract_block($template_cat_list, 'header');
        $params = array('{CATEGORY}' => $lang_cat_list['category'],
            '{ALBUMS}' => $lang_cat_list['albums'],
            '{PICTURES}' => $lang_cat_list['pictures'],
            );
        echo template_eval($template, $params);
    }

    $template_noabl = template_extract_block($template_cat_list, 'catrow_noalb');
    $template = template_extract_block($template_cat_list, 'catrow');
    foreach($cat_data as $category) {
        if (!isset($category['cat_thumb'])) { $category['cat_thumb'] = ''; }
        if (count($category) == 3) {
            $params = array('{CAT_TITLE}' => $category[0],
                    '{CAT_THUMB}' => $category['cat_thumb'],
                '{CAT_DESC}' => $category[1]
                );
            echo template_eval($template_noabl, $params);
        } elseif (isset($category['cat_albums']) && ($category['cat_albums'] != '')) {
            $params = array('{CAT_TITLE}' => $category[0],
                '{CAT_THUMB}' => $category['cat_thumb'],
                '{CAT_DESC}' => $category[1],
                '{CAT_ALBUMS}' => $category['cat_albums'],
                '{ALB_COUNT}' => $category[2],
                '{PIC_COUNT}' => $category[3],
                );
            echo template_eval($template, $params);
        } else {
            $params = array('{CAT_TITLE}' => $category[0],
                '{CAT_THUMB}' => $category['cat_thumb'],
                '{CAT_DESC}' => $category[1],
                '{CAT_ALBUMS}' => '',
                '{ALB_COUNT}' => $category[2],
                '{PIC_COUNT}' => $category[3],
                );
            echo template_eval($template, $params);
        }
    }

    if ($statistics && count($cat_data) > 0) {
        $template = template_extract_block($template_cat_list, 'footer');
        $params = array('{STATISTICS}' => $statistics);
        echo template_eval($template, $params);
    }


    if (count($cat_data) > 0)
          endtable();
        echo template_extract_block($template_cat_list, 'spacer');
}


[skidpics]

Thank you for pointing that out - Can I copy that to my themes.php or do I need to create a new copy of the themes.inc.php file to edit that?  I know those files shouldn't be touched from reading threads across the board.

[skidpics]

Thank you for pointing that out - Can I copy that to my themes.php or do I need to create a new copy of the themes.inc.php file to edit that?  I know those files shouldn't be touched from reading threads across the board.

Now I need to figure out how to display the albums within the category listings.  It appears using {ALBUM_TITLE} is not as simple as it appears.  I want the album listings on the main page, under the category listings, just the titles.  It appears this info gets pulled only when you enter the category.  Is there a global tag that pulls that info from the categories when you are not in the category?

[Joachim Müller]

Don't edit themes.inc.php. As suggested in the docs: copy the sections you want to change into your custom theme.