convert underscore into space

There was this routine to strip.jpg off , http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=29642&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=15

I think it would be easy to convert underscores to spaces. However, I don't think it's been updated to work with the current code. You'd have to either ask the author to update it or do it yourself.

Yeah it does look like they assign them to the base filename now. I forgot that sanitize module also strips out underscores.

I remember when I tried it back in May I was able to easily change it to do something else. I think it was to remove the titles all together.

I'm just talking strictly about the title of the photo, not the directories or the actual filename.

Your statement of "My old gallery software converted underscores into spaces, so I had underscores everywhere." doesn't make any sense. Did you end up with a bunch of spaces or a bunch of underscores?

You may want to ask the devs specifically about editing the DB. It's a very complex beast.

I guess I'm not following you, do you want to remove the underscore from the title or from the actual filename?

Sorry, I just want to display spaces instead of underscores... original filenames should stay with underscores. If the titles in the db get updated with spaces thats fine. Main thing is that they show up on the html with spaces, i.e. before it renders them to html, it removes the underscores.

thefatman, there's a forum topic why we convert spaces to underscores, you might find it with the search function.

Valiant: yeah, i don't mind that spaces are converted into underscores. I probably prefer it. I'm just talking about when it shows it as thumbnail name or photo title or whatever. I store things with underscores on the server.

Well I think i will just end up fixing all my photos/albums via the db. It would be too long and painful to use the gallery interface to edit. Or actually I can probably write a script... OR I can dump the whole db and then edit the text, and reimport it in. easier to script text files than dbs.

Anyway. I think i'm probably taking too much of both of your time... and confusing you both too.

Valiant: hehe, no, thats not what i'm talking about. That probably does fine.

I'm talking about files/directories that had underscores to begin with and when the gallery imports them into the system, it should first replace the underscores with space. And then it should search for invalid characters and replace them with underscores. It could be a toggleable option. But if people don't like that, then only when it renders the html, that it replace the underscores with spaces in title, etc.

Internally it should preserve underscores. and on the disk.

well I can just work on a module. Is there docs somewhre on writing modules? Well I would use the following url as an example:

http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=29642&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

But, I'm not sure if that in it self would work. By the way, I'm assuming the functionality of that above module was integrated into the gallery? (i.e. stripping the extension before putting it in the title field).

FYI:
I order to replace underscores with spaces in item titles on my G2 install, I added the following to the settitle($value) function in modules/core/classes/interfaces/GalleryItem.inc:

$value = str_replace('_', ' ', $value);

The whole function now looks like this:

    /**
     * Set the value of title
     *
     * @param STRING the value
     */
    function settitle($value) {
        /* Convert unset values to null, to avoid generating warnings. */          
        $value = isset($value) ? $value : null;
        $value = $this->_truncateString($value, 128);
        /* automatically replace uderscores with spaces in all titles */
        $value = str_replace('_', ' ', $value);
        $orig = isset($this->_title) ? $this->_title : null;
        /* Only take action if the value actually changes */
        if ($value != $orig) {
            $this->setModifiedFlag('title', $value);
            $this->_title = $value;
        }
    }  

This only fixes new items, not items already containing uderscores. The same code in gettitle() would make the existing items have their underscores replaced with spaces too.

Thanks to all you guys from many years ago! I was having the same issue with version 2.24 and here's what I came up with...

in /GALLERY/themes/THEME/templates/album.tpl around line #130~

This does what I want and leaves all underscores as underscores, but DISPLAYS spaces instead.

Peace,

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