ability to go into subalbums (for slideshow / add to cart)

Hi. In the current g2 (as well as g1), I see that we can create subalbums, but if say I have a primary album under my username and have all subalbums, but want to slideshow or add to cart everything of mine, I can't do that, since it doesn't include subalbums in it.

But I only have about 10 pics in each subalbum, and when I show my pictures in a slideshow (or add to cart to download for someone), I'd like to have it be able to do them all.

Would something like this be a fair suggestion? If so, consider it suggested ;)

Anyone agree? Or am I insane?

And what about recursive Add to cart?
Is it possible to add to cart all subalbums images? Few of my users complained that Add to cart option doesnt work. Off course that it works but they have to be in albums with images, not subalbums.

Didn't find anything similar to $recursive variable in cart module.

Any progress on this? This thread is over a year old, was wondering if there was something built in that I've missed in order to fix the "add to cart" option with subalbums.

in fact, no one has worked on slideshow module in like a year and a half.. that continues to amaze me.

i noticed this problem and wrote a quick fix for it a few weeks ago
it's just a recursive add -i'll post it later

i'm surprised no1 addressed this earlier!!

Okay, before I forget here it is. This "bug" has nothing to do with Zip Cart -even if you don't install the zipcart module, you'll notice that adding to your cart is not recursive.
The fix must go in the Cart module. 2 files need to be edited.

/modules/cart/classes/CartHelper.class

Define the following function anywhere in the class:

/* Recursive function that drills down to get every single child id*/
function fetchAllChildDataItemIds(&$item) {
    if (!$item->getCanContainChildren()) {  // base step, return myself
        return array($item->getId());
    } else {
        list ($ret, $childrenIds) = GalleryCoreApi::fetchChildItemIds($item);
        if ($ret) {
            return null;
        }

        list ($ret, $childrenItems) = GalleryCoreApi::loadEntitiesById($childrenIds);
        if ($ret) {
            return null;
        }

        $return_array = array();
        foreach ($childrenItems as $childItem) {
            $array_to_add = CartHelper::fetchAllChildDataItemIds($childItem);
            $return_array = array_merge($return_array, $array_to_add);
        }

        return $return_array;
    }
}

And in /modules/cart/AddToCart.inc around line 45-47, change:

(may be slightly different depending on which revision you're using)

/* Figure out what ids we care about */
if ($item->getCanContainChildren()) {
    list ($ret, $ids) = GalleryCoreApi::fetchChildDataItemIds($item);

to:

/* Figure out what ids we care about */
if ($item->getCanContainChildren()) {
    $ids = CartHelper::fetchAllChildDataItemIds($item);

NOTE:

This has NOT been extensively tested -I was mostly annoyed at the functionality and decided to fix it in 10 minutes. I'm not using this module anymore but I plan to return to it in the future to make it more robust. However, I've poked at it and it seems to work fine (even with mixed jpg, mov, avi). The only bug I ran into was trying to add the root album to the cart -I didn't bother debugging it though. If you run into any problems, please let me know and I'll be happy to look into it.

use the code instead of the php tag. then it won't convert < > to &gt; / &lt;

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