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shannie

Joined: 2005-02-27
Posts: 6

Posted: Sun, 2005-02-27 20:04

Hello,

I was wondering if someone could help me. I am using Mambo 4.5.2 and Gallery 1.44pl6. Everything is working well. I am trying to force the Random Photo Block thumbnail to open in a separate template assigned to my Gallery component. For example, I have the Random Photo Block in a 3 column template, on thumbnail click I'd like to force it to open in a 2 column template so that the larger intermediate size image doesn't break the layout. Is this possible? Where would I modify the code? I'm thinking it's somewhere here:

if (!empty($index)) {
$id = $album->getPhotoId($index);
echo ""
. "<center><a href=" . makeAlbumUrl($album->fields["name"], $id) . ">"
. $album->getThumbnailTag($index)
. "</a></center>";

but I'm not PHP savvy and don't want to 'break' anything.

Thank you in advance for your help.

LogicX

Joined: 2003-02-23
Posts: 31

Posted: Wed, 2005-03-16 14:46

Can you provide your URL?

I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you mean -- if this is totally mambo integrated, perhaps you are looking for a solution similar to what I do at http://FPuX.com Click into my gallery, and notice how the right column disappears, leaving a two-column layout.

This was accomplished through a template modification and module modifications. I'll be pleased to go into more detail.

shannie

Joined: 2005-02-27
Posts: 6

Posted: Sun, 2005-04-03 06:04

I ended up hard coding the Item Id into util.php after reading a similar post here.

It was on a testing server with about 4 different templates assigned to different menu items. The random photo appeared on the main index page which had a 3 column structure. I wanted the thumbnail link to open the full size image in a template that had a 1 column structure to preserve the layouts.

If you know of a way to modify the random block script so in the future I won't have to hard code a template's ItemId that would be helpful

Thanks

shannie

Joined: 2005-02-27
Posts: 6

Posted: Sun, 2005-04-24 01:38

^bump^

I need help with this issue once again. I upgraded to Gallery 1.5 and the util.php file has changed. I'm unable to hard code the Mambo template Itemid I have assigned so I had to disable the random image since it opens in the default Mambo template which is too small and breaks badly

Anyone know where I can hard code the Itemid, whether it's a gallery file or somewhere in the block-random.php to always force it to use the template assigned???

TIA

shannie Joined: 2005-02-27 Posts: 6	Posted: Sun, 2005-02-27 20:04
	Hello, I was wondering if someone could help me. I am using Mambo 4.5.2 and Gallery 1.44pl6. Everything is working well. I am trying to force the Random Photo Block thumbnail to open in a separate template assigned to my Gallery component. For example, I have the Random Photo Block in a 3 column template, on thumbnail click I'd like to force it to open in a 2 column template so that the larger intermediate size image doesn't break the layout. Is this possible? Where would I modify the code? I'm thinking it's somewhere here: if (!empty($index)) { $id = $album->getPhotoId($index); echo "" . "<center><a href=" . makeAlbumUrl($album->fields["name"], $id) . ">" . $album->getThumbnailTag($index) . "</a></center>"; but I'm not PHP savvy and don't want to 'break' anything. Thank you in advance for your help.
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LogicX Joined: 2003-02-23 Posts: 31	Posted: Wed, 2005-03-16 14:46
	Can you provide your URL? I'm not sure if I understand exactly what you mean -- if this is totally mambo integrated, perhaps you are looking for a solution similar to what I do at http://FPuX.com Click into my gallery, and notice how the right column disappears, leaving a two-column layout. This was accomplished through a template modification and module modifications. I'll be pleased to go into more detail.

shannie Joined: 2005-02-27 Posts: 6	Posted: Sun, 2005-04-03 06:04
	I ended up hard coding the Item Id into util.php after reading a similar post here. It was on a testing server with about 4 different templates assigned to different menu items. The random photo appeared on the main index page which had a 3 column structure. I wanted the thumbnail link to open the full size image in a template that had a 1 column structure to preserve the layouts. If you know of a way to modify the random block script so in the future I won't have to hard code a template's ItemId that would be helpful Thanks

shannie Joined: 2005-02-27 Posts: 6	Posted: Sun, 2005-04-24 01:38
	^bump^ I need help with this issue once again. I upgraded to Gallery 1.5 and the util.php file has changed. I'm unable to hard code the Mambo template Itemid I have assigned so I had to disable the random image since it opens in the default Mambo template which is too small and breaks badly Anyone know where I can hard code the Itemid, whether it's a gallery file or somewhere in the block-random.php to always force it to use the template assigned??? TIA

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