Master index: listing all photos in all albums on one page
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gamecat
Joined: 2006-01-27
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Posted: Wed, 2006-02-08 22:56
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Hey, all. Looking for help oooonce again. Since our site is an informational one, text links that list the full name of a photo are a big part of it. I already tweaked PeerList.tpl to print the FULL list of peers (up to a window size of 300) without truncating the names, and that was good. But it's only good for the current album you're checking out plants in. So, the boss (hi, Dad) wants a master index page for the whole site, which would give text links to every single photo in every single album in the style (well, sort of) of PeerList.tpl. I'm thinking, this is a job for a new module. From the code-grovelling I've been doing this afternoon (THREE HOURS. ARGH), I haven't been able to find any ready-made callbacks or anything that will do what I'm looking for, so I was wondering if anyone here had some guidance. (And yes, I am in far over my head. I'll muddle through somehow, I'm sure.) Nick Fagerlund |
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Looking at your site, Nick, that would make a very long sidepanel.
How about making the list show the album names with each being a dropdown list.
The albums list could perhaps be a top-page adaptation of what you have already tweaked.
I am guessing here, just making suggestions. You know more about it than I do.
Gaynor
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This will be an entirely separate page, which will be linked in the System Links and in the FAQ/email block at the top of the sidebar. Because yes, that would be an out of control sidebar. Also, even if the index were collapsed into dropdowns, you'd still be loading all those links with every page view, and it'd be a gnarly performance hit. This is definitely going to happen in a separate module.
Nick Fagerlund
webmaster, http://www.sedumphotos.net
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Nice one Nick.
I look forward to seeing the results.
I love the idea.
Gaynor
Posts: 28
gamecat, can you tell me what you changed in the PeerList.tpl to get the FULL list of peers?