Multiple columns in front page

nobody knows??
:cry:

Hi there, new gallery user here! :D
I customised the look of my gallery install to have a similar look on my up and coming site... is this what you meant? see the url:

http://photos.flamingfeather.com/
(pardon the texts and stuff, it's still quite under construction...)

if this is what you meant, perhaps i can help you? it's not a lot of work... but will require editing of albums.php... it's a mathematical check so that it can decide whether to print a new table row or not. :D

Ok, I hope I can illustrate this properly...

Now the thing is, I haven't tested this yet for those that display sub-albums on this view... I actually removed some code that involved displaying the subalbums. These are the steps I undertook:

**STEP ONE**

Look for this piece of code:

Add at the beginning:

<tr valign="top">

so the above piece of code will look like this:

**STEP TWO**

Because I didn't like the horizontal code dividing each album, I removed this piece of code:

Also had to remove this </tr>: (just look for "End Text Cell" to find the correct one)

**STEP THREE**

Look for this piece of code:

Add at the beginning:

<?php if (round($i/2,0) <= ($i/2)) { ?>
</tr><tr valign="top">
<?php } ?>

And insert at the line before the closing table tag:

</tr>

So it looks like this:

Gah, and that's it... I think. I hope it works for you?

Hi qactuar

I tried to look at your site, but it seems to be down at present (10:30am, PDT).

One question for you (or maybe several questions once I actually see your site...) - In the Gallery configuration you tell Gallery how many albums you want displayed per page. Does your hack take that into consideration and then divide the albums up accordingly into two columns or handle it differently? (inquiring minds want to know)!

I think the sub-albums code being removed might be a problem for a few people, but perhaps someone else will see a workaround there to get your modification working with sub-albums included.

Nice to see some new faces sharing their ideas!

Gaile

Hmm actually re-looking at the code now, the actual code for displaying the subalbums is still there. I only removed, so far, the pixel-thin line or something like that. :D So if you had subalbums, it would still display, but I guess it would look really tight if displayed as a third and sixth column.

Tried it and it seemed to work like a charm. Two split columns there and it looked great!!!! :D But, after refreshing and checking it out again, I get this

Trying to figure out what caused it now.....

Works great! Only thing I'm going to have to do is make the thumbnails smaller, otherwise it looks way to cluttery...

http://www.fractalfairy.com/~feusers/themes/gallery/

Another thing, this didn't work until I removed the code for the line between the image cells...

Babs

The mod described in this thread is awesome and works great for creating two columns on the front gallery page. Huge thanks to qactuar for taking the time to explain it.

I have tried to modify it to make three columns, but am having problems.

I have limited my gallery to displaying 12 albums per page and would like them to be displayed as:

album 1 album 2 album 3
album 4 ablum 5 album 6
... etc.

I have modified the code to put the album descriptions under the thumnails for the albums so things don't get too cluttered.

I then tried to modify the equation used in this hack to determine the number of columns per row, but am having a problem.

The hack relies on this step:

<?php if (round($i/2,0) <= ($i/2)) { ?> 
 </tr><tr valign="top"> 
 <?php } ?>

Since I would like to have three columns on my front page, I tried the following:

<?php if (round($i/3,0) <= ($i/3)) { ?> 
 </tr><tr valign="top"> 
 <?php } ?>

which gives me the following layout:

Row with one item
Row with two items
Row with one item
Row with two items
... etc.

So then I started playing around with the equation and when I tried this, I almost got what I want:

<?php if (round($i/3,0)+0.01 <= ($i/3)) { ?> 
 </tr><tr valign="top"> 
 <?php } ?>

which gives the layout:

Row with one item
Row with three items
Row with three items
Row with three items
... rest of rows have three items

I'm not a programmer, so I don't really know what I'm doing. Adding the (+0.01) to the equation was a stab in the dark. Is there anyone who understands this well enough to tell me how I can modify the statement to get only rows with three items?

The gallery I'm trying to do this with is here: http://lightmatter.net

I turned on the border of the main layout table to make it easier to see where each table data cell is placed.

If you anyone can offer suggestions, I'd really appreciate it!

Thanks.

pyknosis,
I will try to look at this tomorrow or the next day. Don't give up.

Dave

pyknosis,
I don't have all you code but you can try this and see if it fits the bill.

<?php
echo "<table border = 1>";
$numPhotos = 11;
for ($i=1; $i <= $numPhotos; $i++) {
if ($i %3 ==1){
echo "<tr>\n";
}
echo "<td>\n";
echo "the a href goes here  ";
echo " the image goes here ";
echo "close a href <br>";
echo "the caption or title ";
echo $i; // take out this echo
echo "</td>";
if ($i %3 == 0){
echo "</tr>\n";
}}
echo "</table>";
?>

Just save this as a test.php and see if this is what you like. Change the $numPhotos to see if it does what you want.
I did not read the whole thread, so I don't have the rest of the code and variables you are using but you should be able to plug them into where I have text. I don't know what you will need above all of this like the $numPhotos will the total of all the albums. You will have to add some HTML formating or CSS to get what you want.

Good luck and I like the new layout on your site. Perhaps when you are finished you can post the whole albums.php file?

Dave

I have followed the whole process and it's working!

The problem is that I have to make the thumbnails smaller. I'm going in its subalbum properties and reduce the thumbnails size but it doesn't change why???

Or maybe, if i modified the code to put the album descriptions under the thumnails for the albums ... will it be ok???

How can i do that?

i tried to make 2 columns but i dont couldnt take out the info on the side
if anybody can help i'd greatly appreciate it

i would like it to look more like this gallery http://www.lightmatter.net/gallery/albums.php