Where do I edit html to customise image display ?

[AndrewC]

I'm trying to customise my theme and want to be able to add some framing images around my displayed images. On my old clunky webpage I did this just by adding top, left, right and bottom frame elements in cells around my image (a 3x3 table with the image in the centre cell).

With CPG I can't see where I need to go to do this. What I want is to be able to add other rows and cells to the standard table that CPG creates:

<!-- Start standard table -->
<table align="center" width="600px" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="0" class="maintable">
        <tr>
                <td align="center" class="display_media" nowrap="nowrap">
                        <table cellspacing="2" cellpadding="0" class="imageborder">
                                <tr>
                                        <td align="center">
                                                <img src="albums/wildlife/test/040328AVI001.jpg" width="265" height="400" class="image" border="0" alt="" /><br />
                                        </td>
                                </tr>
                        </table>
                </td></tr>
                </td>
        </tr>
</table>

Can someone please point me in the right direction.

Thanks, Andrew

[Joachim Müller]

why don't you just edit the css properties of the the class that controls the look of the table - nested tables just for design purposes are being considered somewhat deprecated. If you want this to happen to all coppermine tables, edit the maintable class. If you want to edit just the table where your pics are shown, edit display_media.
Add some extra margin or padding to it.
To do so, edit themes/yourtheme/style.css, find the class name and edit the definition in curly braces that comes after it.

[AndrewC]

why don't you just edit the css properties of the the class that controls the look of the table - nested tables just for design purposes are being considered somewhat deprecated. If you want this to happen to all coppermine tables, edit the maintable class. If you want to edit just the table where your pics are shown, edit display_media.
Add some extra margin or padding to it.
To do so, edit themes/yourtheme/style.css, find the class name and edit the definition in curly braces that comes after it.

With css padding, margin and borders I can see how to add a solid matte and frame but I like to have my images "framed" with a bevelled matte or drop shadow and a sculpted frame. Easy to add in PS but then you increase the image upload size.

So I went looking for where display_media is used a class declaration and found where I need to edit - include/themes.inc.php.

Is there any kind of guide to what all the different php pages are used for ? I guess a lot are self explanatory such as (exifReader.inc.php) but is there any sort of overview / flowchart to Coppermine which would help a newbie find his/her way around ?

[Joachim Müller]

don't edit include/themes.inc.php.! Edit themes/yourtheme/theme.php. If the section you want to edit doesn't exist in your theme.php file, copy&paste it from the sample theme. I repeat: do not edit themes.inc.php

[AndrewC]

don't edit include/themes.inc.php.! Edit themes/yourtheme/theme.php. If the section you want to edit doesn't exist in your theme.php file, copy&paste it from the sample theme. I repeat: do not edit themes.inc.php

So does anything declared in themes/yourtheme/theme.php take precedence over the same instructions found elsewhere outside themes/yourtheme/

[Nibbler]

That's the idea.