Different header for each album?

Hello everybody,

First i want to express my thanks to the developpers of Gallery, after trying a lot of different programs to create online photo-albums i finally found Gallery, and i just love it! Keep up the good work!

Ok, so let´s go on to my question: is it possible to insert a different header for each album? I design specific headers that fit the content of the album, but all i can do so far is a universal header for all albums. If anyone knows how to solve my problem, i wouls very much appreciate it. Thanx in advance!

Regards, Herodes

Sorry, I tried to follow the explantion Mindless wrote, but I must have missed something 'cause it didn't work. Here 's my code of the the <AlbumName>.header file. Note that when I use the <AlbumName>.header name (in my case zadik.header), nothing happens... there's no header at all, as though the deafaultheader is in affect. When I rename the file to album.header it takes control on all the albums!!

My code is:

?>
<?php
includeHtmlWrap("wrapper.header");
?>

<table width=100% border=0>
  <tr>
    <td>
      <span class="head">
        <?php echo $gallery->album->fields["title"] ?>
      </span>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">

<p align="center">
<img border="0" src="http://www.zadik.nomda.net/images/candle_header_logoen.jpg" width="700" height="100"></p>
<p align="center"><strong><a href="http://zadik.nomda.net/candles_en.php">
<font color="#e4e4e4">Light A Candle In Their Memory</font></a></strong><font color="#E4E4E4">
| </font><a href="http://nomda.net/gallery/zadik"><strong><font color="#e4e4e4">
Photo Album</font></strong></a><font color="#E4E4E4"> | <b>
<a target="_blank" href="http://zadik.nomda.net/uploader/">
<font color="#E4E4E4">Upload Pics</font></a></b> | </font>
<a href="http://zadik.nomda.net/news.htm"><strong><font color="#e4e4e4">N</font></strong><font color="#e4e4e4"><strong>ews
From US & Israel</strong></font></a><font color="#E4E4E4"> | </font>
<a href="http://zadik.nomda.net/"><strong><font color="#e4e4e4">Home</font></strong></a><font color="#E4E4E4">
</font></p>

Please advise, referring specifacly to where I should make the changes to make it work only on the zadik album.

10Q!

Not sure what you've got before line 27 or after line 33, but you should have something in place of my comment for line 32. Let me be more specific about the contents of album.header:
1) copy album.header.default to album.header
2) insert the text you have listed as lines 27-31 in album.header just after this:

<?php
includeHtmlWrap("wrapper.header");
?>

3) Add the text you have listed as line 33 at the bottom of the file.

Could this code also help with embedding different music into different slideshows?

For instance, I need wedding music to go with a wedding slideshow and kiddie music to go with the kids' slideshow...

Thanks...
Heidi Hafner

> other than including wrapper.header twice at the top
(that was just an accident in the post, not actually in my album.header)

I'm not sure what the problem was, but it disappeared when I removed extra character spaces from:

<?php global $GALLERY_BASEDIR;
   $albumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/html_wrap/' .
   $gallery->album->fields["name"] . '.header';
   if (fs_file_exists($albumheader) && !broken_link($albumheader)) {
   include($albumheader);
   } else { ?>

I didn't see anything obviously wrong, no odd hidden characters, and BBEdit is usually pretty good about revealing that sort of thing.

Anyway, I just deleted all character spaces that separated each line, and even replaced them with my own, and it worked fine. Must have been some hidden gremlins from my original copy/paste of the code in the first place.

Works great now! Thanks!

leslienord,
Try removing the two empty lines 20 and 21. Then look at line 26 you have a t and t

Then if that does not work post your code as a text attachment and we'll see what is the trouble is.

In the future you can use the Code tags in the forum it makes it easy to see things as the white space is not stripped.

Dave

Hi

I read through this whole thread and attempted to apply this mod to no avail--I just get a blank header but it might the CSS file overriding it?
Heres all the info

Our gallery http://www.anwc.org/gallery/

I am using the white skin, I have a custom header on the albums page(thanks for the tutorial) and have customized the css file
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Heres the CSS for the gallery headers (now this jpg is on all myalbums)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

.head /* page headers behind the Gallery title*/
{

background-image: url(../images/weddingsgall2.jpg);
line-height:140%;
letter-spacing: .2em;
border:0px dashed #999999;
width: 452px;
height: 65px;
}

------------------------------------------------------------------------

Heres my album.header code (as done per your suggestion)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
<?php
// This is the default album header (for the gallery
// page: view_album.php). It's companion is album.footer.default.
//
// To override this header, create a file called album.header
// in this directory.
//
// NOTE: This header gets inserted below the <body> tag.
//
// Some tips:
// * Some application variables:
// - Gallery Title: $gallery->app->galleryTitle
// - Album Title: $gallery->album->fields["title"]
//
// $Id: album.header.default,v 1.16 2003/10/20 02:20:23 john_kirkland Exp $
?>
<?php
includeHtmlWrap("wrapper.header");
?>

<?php global $GALLERY_BASEDIR;
$albumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/html_wrap/' . $gallery->album->fields["name"] . '.header';
if (fs_file_exists($albumheader) && !broken_link($albumheader)) {
include($albumheader);
} else { ?>

<table width="100%" border="0">
<tr>
<td>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0" align="center" class="mod_headliner">
<tr valign="middle">
<td class="leftspacer"></td>
<td>
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mod_toplight_bg">
<tr>
<td class="mod_toplight_left" align="right"></td>
<td nowrap class="head" align="left">
&amp;<?php echo $gallery->album->fields["title"] ?>&amp;
</td>
<td class="mod_toplight_right" align="left">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td class="mod_under_hl"></td>
</tr>
</table>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">
<?php } ?>

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Heres my weddings.header code (the header i want on the weddings page)
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------

?>
<?php
includeHtmlWrap("wrapper.header");
?>

<table width=100% border=0>
<tr>
<td>
<span class="head">
<?php echo $gallery->album->fields["title"] ?>
</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td valign="top">

<p> <p align="center"> <img border="0" src="http://www.anwc.org/images/weddingsgall.jpg" width="452" height="65"></p>
<p align="center"><a href="mailto:anwclub@covad.net"><font color="#DF0024" size="1" face="Verdana">Send
E-mail</font></a><font color="#DF0024" size="1" face="Verdana"> | </font>
<font color="#DF0024" size="1" face="Verdana"><a href="http://www.anwc.org/home.html">ANWC
Home </a></font>
&amp;</p></td>

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Now for this to work do I need to get rid of the header in the CSS code?

(by the way..the image i have currently in the css code 'weddingsgall2.jpg' is not the one i want at the top of the that weddings gallery..its weddingsgall.jpg--i just created a new one so all the albums wouldnt have a wedding title)

Or am I missing some code somewhere in the headers?

Thanks in advance

Ahhhh! thank you!

Thats what I didnt get..that the wedding head had to be exactly same except for the ..etc

Got it

Thanks for your help fellow Canuck

garyferrer,
If you want a custom header for a particular album this is the steps you need to do:

Take this code and save it as album.header

<?php
// This is the default album header (for the gallery
// page: view_album.php). It's companion is album.footer.default.
//
// To override this header, create a file called album.header
// in this directory. 
// 
// NOTE: This header gets inserted below the <body> tag.
// 
// Some tips:
// * Some application variables:
//      - Gallery Title: $gallery->app->galleryTitle    
//      - Album Title: $gallery->album->fields["title"]    
//      
// $Id: album.header.default,v 1.16 2003/10/20 02:20:23 john_kirkland Exp $
?>
<?php global $GALLERY_BASEDIR; 
$albumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/html_wrap/' . $gallery->album->fields["name"] . '.header'; 
if (fs_file_exists($albumheader) && !broken_link($albumheader)) { 
    include($albumheader); 
} else { ?>
<?php
includeHtmlWrap("wrapper.header");
?>

<table width="100%" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0" align="center" class="mod_headliner">
        <tr valign="middle">
          <td class="leftspacer"></td>
          <td>
            <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mod_toplight_bg">
              <tr>
                <td class="mod_toplight_left" align="right"></td>
                <td nowrap class="head" align="left">
		  &amp;<?php echo $gallery->album->fields["title"] ?>&amp;
                </td>
                <td class="mod_toplight_right" align="left">
                </td>
              </tr>
            </table>
          </td>
       </tr>
     </table>
     <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
       <tr>
         <td class="mod_under_hl"></td>
       </tr>
     </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">
	<?php } ?>

then take this code and save it as album01.header

<?php
// This is the default album header (for the gallery
// page: view_album.php). It's companion is album.footer.default.
//
// To override this header, create a file called album.header
// in this directory. 
// 
// NOTE: This header gets inserted below the <body> tag.
// 
// Some tips:
// * Some application variables:
//      - Gallery Title: $gallery->app->galleryTitle    
//      - Album Title: $gallery->album->fields["title"]    
//      
// $Id: album.header.default,v 1.16 2003/10/20 02:20:23 john_kirkland Exp $
?>
<?php
includeHtmlWrap("wrapper.header");
?>

<table width="100%" border="0">
  <tr>
    <td>
      <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0" align="center" class="mod_headliner">
        <tr valign="middle">
          <td class="leftspacer"></td>
          <td>
            <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mod_toplight_bg">
              <tr>
                <td class="mod_toplight_left" align="right"></td>
                <td nowrap class="head" align="left">
		  &amp;<?php echo $gallery->album->fields["title"] ?>&amp;
                </td>
                <td class="mod_toplight_right" align="left">
                </td>
              </tr>
            </table>
          </td>
       </tr>
     </table>
     <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
       <tr>
         <td class="mod_under_hl">this is the custom album01 header</td>
       </tr>
     </table>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">

Edit to your desires.

Now if you want another album other than album01, (with a custom header) then you have to make another copy of the second file and call it albumname.header. Gallery will look for a header file and if not found it will give the default header. All these files are in the html_wrap directory. No code required in the album directory.

Dave

Hi,

I have a small variation of the issue: I have already done a customization of the footer, but now I want that customization to be used on all pages BUT those of one album and all its subalbums. In that album users are allowed to add their own albums, so I cannot hardcode specific names of the subalbums, I would have to somehow use the 'base-album'. Is there a way to do this?

Tx

Michael

This worked great! The only hiccup I'm getting is that when you go back to the main gallery page from this album with a customized header, the main album page (album.php) does not include the wrapper.header file unless I refresh the page. Any clues as to how to solve this?

You can see what I mean by starting here:
http://www.thestoddards.com/gallery/elle, then select the main gallery link (The Stoddard Photo Gallery). Notice there is no header. Now hit F5 to refresh the page, and you'll see the header.

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.

Thanks, Gaile. That helped me debug it a bit more. It's not actually the double body tags, but it looks like the is not including wrapper.header on the intial page load (and thus no header), and is including it on the refresh (then the header showing). This is consitently happening when coming from a page with a custom header.

I'm using

<?php 
global $gallery; 
if (strncmp($gallery->album->fields["name"], "elle",4)) {
if (strncmp($gallery->album->fields["name"], "esb",3)) { 
?>

to control whether or not the wrapper is included, and it seems to work well with this one hiccup. Is it possible that it's holding the "elle" in memory when it first loads the page?

Any suggestions on things to try would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Rod

I just upgraded the gallery I used the custom header code on to version 1.5 and it no longer displays the custom headers. What needs to be changed?

Thanks again,
Leslie

Thank you once again - worked like a charm.

Leslie

http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&p=140944#140944

add replace
global $GALLERY_BASEDIR;
with
$GALLERY_BASEDIR = dirname(__FILE__);

<?php global $GALLERY_BASEDIR = dirname(__FILE__);
remove the word global

real urls would be helpfull PM me if you don't want the world to see what is on the world wide web.
and wrap your code in code tags!

Dave

try this as your /html_wrap/album.header

<?php 
// This is the default album header (for the gallery 
// page: view_album.php). It's companion is album.footer.default. 
// 
// To override this header, create a file called album.header 
// in this directory. 
// 
// NOTE: This header gets inserted below the <body> tag. 
// 
// Some tips: 
// * Some application variables: 
// - Gallery Title: $gallery->app->galleryTitle 
// - Album Title: $gallery->album->fields["title"] 
// 
// $Id: album.header.default,v 1.16 2003/10/20 02:20:23 john_kirkland Exp $ 
?> 
<?php $GALLERY_BASEDIR = dirname(__FILE__); 
$albumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/' . $gallery->album->fields["name"] . '.header';
if (fs_file_exists($albumheader) && !broken_link($albumheader)) { 
include($albumheader); 
} else { ?> 

<table width="100%" border="0"> 
<tr> 
<td> 
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" border="0" align="center" class="mod_headliner"> 
<tr valign="middle"> 
<td class="leftspacer"></td> 
<td> 
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mod_toplight_bg"> 
<tr> 
<td class="mod_toplight_left" align="right"></td> 
<td nowrap class="head" align="left"> 
<?php echo $gallery->album->fields["title"] ?>
</td> 
<td class="mod_toplight_right" align="left"> 
</td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
<table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"> 
<tr> 
<td class="mod_under_hl"></td> 
</tr> 
</table> 
</td> 
</tr> 
<tr> 
<td valign="top"> 
<?php } ?>

I've got the customized headers working well, but am having a hard time coding the album.footer to get it to choose a different footer for each album. I'm using the following code:

<?php // include custom album footer
$GALLERY_BASEDIR = dirname(__FILE__);
$albumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/' . $gallery->album->fields["name"] . '.footer';
if (fs_file_exists($albumfooter) && !broken_link($albumfooter)) {
    include($albumfooter);
} else { ?>

Where should I insert it in my album.footer file to make this work?

Thanks,
Dirk

Thanks. The ending bracket did the trick.

One more question. Is there a way to change the album.header code below ...

<?php // include custom album header
$GALLERY_BASEDIR = dirname(__FILE__);
$albumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/' . $gallery->album->fields["name"] . '.header';
if (fs_file_exists($albumheader) && !broken_link($albumheader)) {
    include($albumheader);
} else { ?>

... so that subalbums automatically use the parent album's header if its own header file doesn't exist?

Thanks,
Dirk

I've figured out a way to have child albums default to a parent album's header, modifying the code a bit. I suppose this wouldn't work on a child album of a child album, but there's probably a way to work around that somehow.

<?php // include custom album header
$GALLERY_BASEDIR = dirname(__FILE__);
$albumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/' . $gallery->album->fields["name"] . '.header';
$parentalbumheader = $GALLERY_BASEDIR . '/' . $gallery->album->fields["parentAlbumName"] . '.header';
if (fs_file_exists($albumheader) && !broken_link($albumheader)) {
    include($albumheader);
} else
if (fs_file_exists($parentalbumheader) && !broken_link($parentalbumheader)) {
    include($parentalbumheader);
} else { ?>

This first checks for a custom header for a particular album. If it doesn't find it, it will use its parent album's custom header. If it doesn't find either, it'll use album.header.

Dirk

G1 or G2?

Dave
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