Shortened Captions

rpritchett
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Joined: 2002-08-23
Posts: 1
Posted: Fri, 2002-08-23 17:30

Here is a smal mod I have to view_album.php (gal v1.31)... It shortens the captions to 40 characters in Album mode, but still displays the full caption in Picture more.

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< echo($gallery->album->getCaption($i));
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> $tmpstr = ($gallery->album->getCaption($i));
> if ( (strlen($tmpstr) > 40) ) {
> $tmpstr= substr($tmpstr,0,40) . "...";
> }
> echo "$tmpstr";
 
zjs2k

Joined: 2002-08-24
Posts: 33
Posted: Sun, 2002-08-25 19:07

Nice one. That's what I need. But your hack will not affect the subalbum title/description. If the subalbum has a very long title and/or description, I like to make it short too. Also the album at the top level. So maybe we can insert a function in util.php to do the job. And call the function from various places.

Jin
 
vallimar

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 487
Posted: Sun, 2002-08-25 21:56

If you want this to apply everywhere except the closeup of an image,
then you could try applying your length check directly in the getCaption
function of classes/Album.php. However, this may adversely affect
top-level and highlight captions if they exceed the string length
you have picked out as there is no other way to view the caption.
 
zjs2k

Joined: 2002-08-24
Posts: 33
Posted: Mon, 2002-08-26 03:51

I don't think change getCaption is good. Like you said, there is no way to display the full caption. And there may be more than one place that needs this feature: Album title, album description, subalbum description, photo caption, etc..