Album Thumbnail instead Album Title on album page

Can you post a screenshot or mockup of what you're looking for. I'm not sure what you want changed.
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We don't have access to anymore info about the parent besides its id.
You'd have to add the extra parameter to theme.inc.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

Hmm, sorry my bad, it would be $theme.item, not $theme.parent - but the thumbnail is still not available(at least in carbon).

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

Thanks for you replies.

I found that I could use GalleryCoreApi::fetchThumbnailsByItemIds($itemId)

but I'm a bit off from there.

Where should I put that line in order to retrieve a thumbnail based on album ID?

Not working by just copying and pasting.

After adding the code to theme.inc and <center>{$theme.item.thumbnail}</center> into album.tpl

I get an HTML 500 internal server error when I try to load the page...

Am I missing something here?

As a side note, I don't know if this matters, album thumbnail is not an image from the album, I added it as Custom album thumbnail.

Thank you very much for your time suprsidr

My bad, 49 is actually id of the thumbnail Now I'm getting somewhere

Then, my best guess, the error is somewhere in this line

$theme['item']['thumbnail'] = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(array('view'=>'core.DownloadItem', 'itemId'=>$thumbnail[$item->getId()]->getId(), 'serialNumber'=>$thumbnail[$item->getId()]->getSerialNumber()), array('forceFullUrl'=>true, 'forceSessionId'=>true, 'htmlEntities'=>true));

I'm generating the actual thumbnail url so in the template you would use <img src="{$theme['item']['thumbnail']}"/>

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

Not working, I can't even get the url to show up as a string...

Again, this is what I have in theme.inc

And now I'm calling it from album.tpl with

I thought it had something to do with not defining what $urlGenerator was, but I didn't want to pretend smart

I managed to display the thumbnail by simple string concatenation

$theme['item']['thumbnail'] = 'http://www.parasole.rs/gallery/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId='.$thumbnail[$item->getId()]->getId().'&g2_serialNumber='.$thumbnail[$item->getId()]->getSerialNumber();

But your approach is universal, now I'll test it.

As a thank you, I'm writing the tutorial how to do this in case other users need this too.

NOTE: This tutorial is based on default Matrix theme and if you are using another theme things might be slightly different, but in general this should work for all the themes, only line numbers should be different.

HOW TO DISPLAY ALBUM THUMBNAIL INSTEAD OF ALBUM TITLE

By default, G2 is set to display album name on top of the page when browsing through the galleries.

If you want to change this behaviour, and display album's thumbnail instead, this is what you should do:

- Open the file theme.inc located under /[YOUR GALLERY2 INSTALL DIR]/THEMES/[YOUR THEME]/

- Find the code

$theme =& $template->getVariableByReference('theme');

on approx. line 71

- After that line paste the following code

/*Custom code by suprsidr to enable album thumbnail*/
	
global $gallery;
	
$urlGenerator = &$gallery->getUrlGenerator();
	
$itemId = $item->getId();
	
list($ret, $thumbnail) = GalleryCoreApi::fetchThumbnailsByItemIds(array($itemId));
	
if (!$ret && !empty($thumbnail)) {
    $theme['item']['thumbnail'] = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(array('view'=>'core.DownloadItem', 'itemId'=>$thumbnail[$itemId]->getId(), 'serialNumber'=>$thumbnail[$itemId]->getSerialNumber()), array('forceFullUrl'=>true, 'forceSessionId'=>true, 'htmlEntities'=>true));
}
	
if ($ret) {
    return array($ret, null);
}
/*end of custom code*/

- Save theme.inc

- Open up the album.tpl located under /[YOUR GALLERY2 INSTALL DIR]/THEMES/[YOUR THEME]/TEMPLATES/

- Find this line of code

<h2> <center>{$theme.item.title|markup}</center> </h2>

- Replace this line with the following code

<img src="{$theme.item.thumbnail}"/>

- Save album.tpl

- That's it. now you should see album's thumbnail instead of it's name showing up as the gallery title.