Album question (Smarty): display multiple albums in full view... [SOLVED]

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Album question (Smarty): display multiple albums in full view... [SOLVED]

Post by Caspar »

Hi everybody,

me again with another Album question. This time it's about the pop-up table template and album comments.

Problem:
If multiple Albums (e.g. "Album 1", "Album 2" etc.) are attached to one and the same page, each of them would show up as a thumbnail with some album name and/or comment to it.
Clicking on one of those thumbnails would get me to one album at a time, let's say to "Album 1".
After having watched some pictures I'd click on the "Return"-link and find myself back on the page with those album thumbnails.

What I'd love to create instead would look like this (that's supposed to be the generated xhtml now):

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<!-- Start with Album1, that's easy -->

<div id="album1">
   <!--the following div would probably be floated left or roght via css -->
   <div class="albumcomment">
         Generated album comment for Album 1 here.
   </div>
   <!-- now the thumbnail table as generated by the popup table template -->
   <table class="popuptable" summary="thumbmail images">
      <tr>
         <td><img src="thumbnail1.jpg" alt="image1"/></td>
         <td><img src="thumbnail2.jpg" alt="image2"/></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td><img src="thumbnail3.jpg" alt="image3"/></td>
         <td><img src="thumbnail4.jpg" alt="image4"/></td>
      </tr>
      <tr>
         <td>etc.</td>
         <td>etc.</td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</div>

<!-- Up to here everything's okay, but now we want Album2 on the SAME PAGE, 
with comment and thumbnail table next to it, 
but no separate album thumbnail to click on first...! -->

<div id="album2">
   <div class="albumcomment">
         Generated album comment for Album 2 here.
   </div>
   <table class="popuptable" summary="thumbmail images">
      <tr>
         <td>etc.</td>
         <td>etc.</td>
      </tr>
   </table>
</div>
My trouble starts with displaying my so called "Album2" in full glory on the same page as "Album1". Any support highly appreciated!!

THANKS!
Caspar
Last edited by Caspar on Sun Apr 15, 2007 6:02 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Album question (Smarty): display multiple albums in full view on one page?

Post by Elijah Lofgren »

Hi cas,

Hmm.. I've never really thought about displaying the thumbs of 2 different Albums on the same page.

Is there any reason you can't just combine the pictures into one Album?

- Elijah
Note: I don't have time to take on any more projects. I'm quite busy. I may be too busy to reply to emails or messages. Thanks for your understanding. :)
Vin

Re: Album question (Smarty): display multiple albums in full view on one page?

Post by Vin »

I'm not so sure what exactly you want to achieve, cas. A preview of the next album?
Caspar

Re: Album question (Smarty): display multiple albums in full view on one page?

Post by Caspar »

Thank you for responding, Elijah and Vin!

It's the comments. I need one comment for a various number of pictures, followed by another comment and another row of pictures, followed by...etc.
Maybe this page can give a better idea of what I'm up to: http://www.sackermann-foto.de/index.php?page=B_cher.
(Please don't look at the code, I'm re-doing anyway.) It uses the older Image Gallery UDT, the comments are wrapped into a div which means: editing source code when adding a new comment/row of pics. If it was my own page, I wouldn't mind using the same method now, but my relative I'm doing it for needs a wysiwyg solution.

Please: If this is a bigger issue, don't let yourself be distracted from it. I thought, it'll be only my lack of smarty knowledge... I can come up with a workaround for now.

Thanks again!  :)
Caspar
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Re: Album question (Smarty): display multiple albums in full view on one page?

Post by Elijah Lofgren »

cas wrote: Please: If this is a bigger issue, don't let yourself be distracted from it. I thought, it'll be only my lack of smarty knowledge... I can come up with a workaround for now.
It would take some work to add this feature so I won't plan on doing it. I need to work on my speech for English. I hope you find a solution.

Wishing you the best,

Elijah
Note: I don't have time to take on any more projects. I'm quite busy. I may be too busy to reply to emails or messages. Thanks for your understanding. :)
Caspar

Re: Album question (Smarty): display multiple albums in full view on one page?

Post by Caspar »

Thanks and a successful speech to you! :)
Caspar
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