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Advice on how to read contents of .txt file to template

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Hi

I'm looping through an image folder and displaying the images in a bootstrap carousel in the news detail template.
That is working very well

My problem is that there should be a caption and a text for each image.

My solution is to put a .txt file which contains caption contents for each image in the folder. So I have img1.jpg then there is a file called img1.txt in the same folder etc. (each image has a corresponding .txt file which contains contents that have to be read to the caption section in the code below)

I'm not sure how I would implement that solution to the {foreach} loop.

Can someone advise me about best practice for that solution.
I'm still not that advanced in CMSMS

Below is a copy of the Carousel code for clarification.

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<!--Carousel Wrapper-->
<div id="carousel-thumb" class="carousel slide carousel-fade carousel-thumbnails" data-ride="carousel">
<!--Slides-->
<div class="carousel-inner" role="listbox">
 {assign var='pics' value="uploads/images/{$entry->Picfolder}/*.jpg"|glob}
  {foreach from=$pics item='pic'}
     {if $pic@first}
       <div class="carousel-item active">
       {else}
       <div class="carousel-item">
     {/if}            
       <img class="d-block w-100" src='{root_url}/{$pic}' alt="First slide">  
         <div class="carousel-caption d-md-block">
           <h5>Caption</h5>
           <p>Image text</p>
         </div>    
       </div>
  {/foreach}
       </div>
          <!--/.Slides-->
          <!--Controls-->
          <a class="carousel-control-prev" href="#carousel-thumb" role="button" data-slide="prev">
            <span class="carousel-control-prev-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>
            <span class="sr-only">Previous</span>
          </a>
          <a class="carousel-control-next" href="#carousel-thumb" role="button" data-slide="next">
            <span class="carousel-control-next-icon" aria-hidden="true"></span>
            <span class="sr-only">Next</span>
          </a>
          <!--/.Controls-->
          <ol class="carousel-indicators">
            {foreach from=$pics item='pic' name=img}
              <li data-target="#carousel-thumb" data-slide-to="{$smarty.foreach.img.index}" class="active"> <img class="d-block w-100" src='{root_url}/{$pic}' height="50" width="50" class="img-fluid"></li>
            {/foreach}
          </ol>
</div>
<!--/.Carousel Wrapper-->


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Re: Advice on how to read contents of .txt file to template

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Seems to me you are rebuilding all the functionality the Gallery module has to offer :-X ;)
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Re: Advice on how to read contents of .txt file to template

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Jos wrote:Seems to me you are rebuilding all the functionality the Gallery module has to offer :-X ;)

Haha... I quess it is for the purpose of learning :)
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Re: Advice on how to read contents of .txt file to template

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I've been trying to make this work to get the .txt file contents, but without luck.

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{uploads_url}/images/{$entry->Picfolder}/*.txt"|file_get_contents|parse_str:$result}
I'm still pretty stuck here :)
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Re: Advice on how to read contents of .txt file to template

Post by johnboyuk1 »

Doesn't strictly answer your question ... but I'd use LISE to build a module to do this maybe? So in your LISE module have 2 fields - the image path and the image caption and then build out from there. Means when you want to update the options or images you don't have to mess about with txt files...
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Re: Advice on how to read contents of .txt file to template

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Maybe you can use this tag, or use some working code from it:
http://dev.cmsmadesimple.org/projects/cacheremotefile

Demo and tutorial:
https://cmscanbesimple.org/blog/share-d ... e-file-tag

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{cache_remote_file url='https://yoursite.com/uploads/file.txt'}
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LATEST TUTORIAL AT CMS CAN BE SIMPLE:
Migrating Company Directory module to LISE
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Re: Advice on how to read contents of .txt file to template

Post by Sendlingur »

Thanks all, I decided to just go with the {gallery} for this. I'll try your solutions on future projects.
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