Changing the alt attributes

[mreider]

I'm going crazy - How can I change the alt attributes of all the images? Right now they show filesize etc and I can't figure out what file I need to edit to change this to the actual title of the image.

I've done a search through all files for 'alt="' and still haven't found the right one.

I'm using CPG 1.4.5.

If someone could point me in the right direction of which file needs to be edited thatd be great. I looked at other threads and couldn't find an answer either, sorry if I missed one.

[Stramm]

Copy function theme_html_picture() from themes/sample/theme.php to the theme.php you're using. Within that function look for the img tag and modify it to your needs. That's for the intermediate view...

[mreider]

Thanks, I managed to get that working.

What I'm trying to do though is have the alt attribute set as the pictures title.

I've tried this code:

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$pic_html = "<img src=\"" . $picture_url . "\" {$image_size['geom']} class=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"{TITLE}\" /><br />\n";

But that just changes the alt to "{TITLE}".

Do you know how to get it to render the actual title? Do I have to pull it somehow in a different variable?

Thanks again
-Matt

[Stramm]

instead of TITLE
try
$CURRENT_PIC_DATA['title']

[mreider]

That did the trick! Now I can play with a few other settings

Thanks again Stramm

[mreider]

Or actually one quick questoin if you happen to know the answer off hand - Do you know where to modify the title attributes for the thumbnails that appear on the index.php?

[Stramm]

function theme_display_thumbnails 
that's globally for all thumbs (not just the thumbs on index and not for the album thumbs on the index)

[mreider]

Thanks Stramm.

I found the function, but can't find the title="whatever" in it.

Is there somewhere that is defined? Or am I just missing it?

[Stramm]

sorry, it's in include/functions.inc.php - function display_thumbnails

replace

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                        $thumb_list[$i]['image'] = "<img src=\"" . $pic_url . "\" class=\"image\" {$image_size['geom']} border=\"0\" alt=\"{$row['filename']}\" title=\"$pic_title\"/>";

with

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                        $thumb_list[$i]['image'] = "<img src=\"" . $pic_url . "\" class=\"image\" {$image_size['geom']} border=\"0\" alt=\"{$row['filename']}\" title=\"{$row['title']}\"/>";


[mreider]

Exactly what I was looking for!

Thanks Stramm - I also installed your mod pack, and it's working beautifully. Thanks for all your contributions.

[Seleno]

i really don't understand it
in function theme_html_picture()  there are much text,
i'm using version 4.6,can you help me and add file here plz?...so i can replace it
i want the title and the name of pictures to alt also,
waiting your help

[Seleno]

thanx Stramm ,i see the picture title in alt now but only for thumbnails
but in display image when i point to pic i still see: click to view full size image
so how can i edit it to add the image title as alt?

[Stramm]

as said, just look for the img tag in the function theme_html_pictures and modify it to your needs
then that's the relevant part for you in that function

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            $pic_html = "<a href=\"javascript:;\" onclick=\"MM_openBrWindow('displayimage.php?pid=$pid&amp;fullsize=1','" . uniqid(rand()) . "','scrollbars=yes,toolbar=no,status=no,resizable=yes,width=$winsizeX,height=$winsizeY')\">";
            $pic_title = $lang_display_image_php['view_fs'] . "\n==============\n" . $pic_title;
            $pic_html .= "<img src=\"" . $picture_url . "\" class=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"{$lang_display_image_php['view_fs']}\" /><br />";
            $pic_html .= "</a>\n";
        } else {
            $pic_html = "<img src=\"" . $picture_url . "\" {$image_size['geom']} class=\"image\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" /><br />\n";


[Seleno]

hi there
i added this

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title=\"{$row['title']}\"/>";
but it didn't work with me
when i put mouse in image i still see:
click to view full size image
so how can i add the image title as the image alt,so it will appear as:
image alt and click to view full size or only image title alt
can you fix it for me plz?

[Joachim Müller]

that's made-up code. There's no constant named title. Do as suggested in the previous posting.

[Walkinman]

hello Folks,

I made the adjustment show here by Stramm for the intermediate image, and I managed to get it right. Works great, thank you. However, I would also like to adjust the alt tag on the thumbnails page, and can't seem to get it to work. How do I make the alt tags for the thumbnails be the title I have coded in my IPTC data? I would also like the little yellow box that pops up when I mouse over a thumbnail to be the caption from the IPTC data. Are you saying I should adjust the include/functions.inc.php code? I thought I had read on here numerous times never to make adjustments to that code.

Any help is very much aprpeciated, as always.

Thank you.

Cheers

Carl

[Stramm]

have you read this
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=31277.msg144833#msg144833

[Walkinman]

Hey Stramm,

Yes, I had read that, but just now re-read it (thanks).  I made the changes and it works great, thank you. I thought I had seen people here say never to change that file, so I wasn't sure if that's what I was supposed to do.

Thanks for your patience.

Cheers

Carl

[Stramm]

you're absolutely right, the right way to do it is to copy that function to the theme.php you're actually using (from themes/sample/theme.php to eg. themes/classic/theme.php) and then do the editing

[Walkinman]

Hey Stramm,

Ahhhh .. uh oh .. I'll, errr, be right back.

Thanks man.

Cheers

Carl