How to refer to Gallery links / albums from joomla

Fjellfinn

Joined: 2007-08-31
Posts: 34
Posted: Tue, 2008-12-02 08:46

I started as joomla 1.0.13 a year ago, a good enough bridge solution.

I have now successfully migrated to joomla 1.5.8, all is perfect and my Gallery2 bridge shows me my Gallery 2.3 albums perfect as far as i can see!
(Gallery reside in /public_html/gallery on my web server, Joomla 1.5 on top/ in root)

Until now, I have referred from my articles (in Joomla) to my Gallery albums as:
http://www.itrollheimen.net/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery&Itemid=102&g2_itemId=9296

This is a long and prone to error link. Due to a small error in the migration I had to rewrite a lot of articles, correcting the links...

Q:
- is there some kind of Joomla / Gallery2 plugin/component, so I could write something like

<Gallery>itemid

where Gallery is the path in webserver, a global setting "somewhere" and itemid is the number (9296) of the Gallery.
??
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xlerator

Joined: 2008-12-23
Posts: 7
Posted: Mon, 2008-12-29 12:20

Hey Fjellfinn! Don't know if i got your problem right, but you can activate the SEO (Search Engine Friendly URLs) in Joomlas global config. Then you can give a short menu name (Alias) like "gallery". Now the link http://mysite/gallery would be the same like http://mysite/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&view=gallery.

edit:
you can give multiple aliases for your galleries categories like
* /gallery-soccer
* /gallery-party
and so on

regards,
xlr
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Fjellfinn

Joined: 2007-08-31
Posts: 34
Posted: Mon, 2008-12-29 15:16

You didnt :-)

Inside my articles in joomla, I need something like <gallery> itemid 12053 </gallery>

when I refer to this article inside another, instead of writing such a long link:

http://www.itrollheimen.net/index.php?option=com_g2bridge&Itemid=102&g2_itemId=12053

I would only write a itemid.

i just upgraded to Joomla 1.5.8, I had some hundred links, none of them worked...
If I had used itemid this would have survided the uppgrade :-)
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