Displaying album description on thumbnail page

[Jack76]

I would like to display the album description on the thumpnails page.
There was one topic about this problem but nobody posted working solution:
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=5618.0
Could anybody help me? I tried to edit theme.php to do this but without success.

P.S. I have CPG 1.3.0

[Jack76]

I just figured out how to do it.
I used the code of kguske from the old topic and modified it because there is no /themes/myfavoritetheme/thumb_view_title_row.inc file in CPG 1.3.0.
So before

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// Return the name of a user
function get_username($uid)
Add:

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// Get the name of an album
function get_album_desc($aid)
{
    global $CONFIG;
    global $lang_errors;
    $result = db_query("SELECT description from {$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";
    }
}
Then, in /themes/myfavoritetheme/theme.php just after:

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

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$album_desc = get_album_desc($_GET[album]);
Then, wherever you want the description to appear, you can insert the $album_desc variable. But there is a BIG problem: bbcodes don't work in the album description displayed on thumbnail page
Could anyone help me? How to enable bbcodes now?
It's really important to me :-\\

[Joachim Müller]

The function make_clickable is your friend

GauGau

[Jack76]

The function make_clickable is your friend

Could you exlpain?
I'm not good in php

[myprado]

I solved that problem using by function bb_decode($album_desc); (from file include/functions.inc.php).

Now I have album description on thumbnail page with bbcode.

Edit the theme.php

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function theme_display_thumbnails(&$thumb_list, $nbThumb, $album_name, $aid, $cat, $page, $total_pages, $sort_options, $display_tabs, $mode = 'thumb') {
//................
//.................
    if ($mode == 'thumb') {
        starttable('100%', $title, $thumbcols);
    } else {
        starttable('100%');
    }

    echo $header;
    echo bb_decode($album_desc);
//....................
//....................

}

Coders, Dont forget to make steps above posted by Jack76.
Regards.

[PandaSorn]

Then, wherever you want the description to appear, you can insert the $album_desc variable. But there is a BIG problem: bbcodes don't work in the album description displayed on thumbnail page

I've done the two changes on functions.inc and theme.php, but I don't understand how to display the album description in the thumbnail page between the title of the ambum ad the images.
Also I don't want the album description on the categori page.

Can you help me?

[MLKE]

i've done the steps, and i can display the description, but the bbcode is not working

[Joachim Müller]

This thread has originally been posted on the "feature requests" board. Moving it to the support board, as it contains a solution and is not a real feature request.

[anajka]

Have anyone a working solution for this problem?

best regards anajka

[xplicit]

I solved that problem using by function bb_decode($album_desc); (from file include/functions.inc.php).

Now I have album description on thumbnail page with bbcode.

Edit the theme.php

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function theme_display_thumbnails(&$thumb_list, $nbThumb, $album_name, $aid, $cat, $page, $total_pages, $sort_options, $display_tabs, $mode = 'thumb') {
//................
//.................
    if ($mode == 'thumb') {
        starttable('100%', $title, $thumbcols);
    } else {
        starttable('100%');
    }

    echo $header;
    echo bb_decode($album_desc);
//....................
//....................

}

Coders, Dont forget to make steps above posted by Jack76.
Regards.

The above is not the correct way to do this.

Instead use the code of Jack76 and change  the part:

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return $row['description'];

by:

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return bb_decode ($row['description']);

That will solve all problems