Alec's thoughts: One more gallery trick

May 13, 2004

One more gallery trick

oh yeah, I forgot that I had also added another thing for gallery integration.

I found this neat hack which includes a php file that outputs javascript to display a link. I tweaked the script to look like this:

..
echo "document.write('<a href=\"" . 
    makeAlbumUrl($gallery->album->fields["name"]) . "\">" . 
    $gallery->album->getThumbnailTag($gallery->album->getHighlight() ) . 
    "</a>');";
..

getThumbnailTag is cool because it its the complete <img> tag to display the particular thumbnail. It wouldn't be hard to make that a random number to display a random thumbnail.

so now I can also say thumbnail=yes and it will display a thumbnail from the gallery specified by the gallery keyword.

Posted by alecf at May 13, 2004 05:57 PM | TrackBack

Comments

This didn't quite work for me at first, until I realized the gallery->album->getThumbnailTag was missing the $ symbol

this worked for me
echo "document.write('album->fields["name"]) . "\"> " . $gallery->album->getThumbnailTag($gallery->album->getHighlight()) . "');";

Posted by: Dave Golden at August 6, 2004 02:48 PM