I have seen features from diff themes I want to integrate, but i dont know php.
Can I take the pages created in the theme and interchange them with the theme I want to use as the base?
To clarify-- can i use the image.php page from one them in another? Or album page?
I found the random pic feature from thinkdreams theme and just added the 2 other pages needed. I want to add the image.php from that theme to the joshuaink theme.
I have also turned the thumbnails to false and i still and getting the centered version.
How is the size of random thumbnail changed?
I know yall worked so hard to get the EXIF data to work but how can I turn it off?
In the image.php on thinkdream there is the space above the main pic and between the previous and next pics where a banner will fit perfectly. I can get the code to center and all it does is mess the alignment up and it on the left.
Thanks for your help and I have no problem paying or promoting in exchange for help.
Zenphoto
Comments
You may have VERY unexpected results when trying to attempt this. Where the files may interchange OK, the CSS code will not, thus it may not display properly at all.
What you should do if you are trying to accomplish a particular layout is pick one theme, and modify it from there. Thus, if you choose joshuaink for example, you can pull the random image function from the thinkdreams theme and use it there. Swapping the pages from different themes will only be frustrating, especially if you're a PHP beginner.
My suggestion? I would choose the joshuaink theme, (and yes, I helped design the thinkdreams theme, but I admire GameDudeX's work on the joshuaink theme) and joshuaink has a lot less "goodies" in there, especially when you are designing a theme as a PHP beginner. You can always "add" to the theme later with the goodies.
Here's an example of a Joshuaink derived theme with "goodies": http://www.thinkdreams.com/zenphoto (which is my current photo gallery). I modified Joshuaink with CSS rounded edges from a nifty Wordpress theme I found called Rounded Blue. It works, does what I want it to, and leaves room for improvements.
How can I center a banner on the image page over the main pic in your theme?
`
"
title="<?php echo getAlbumTitle(); ?>">
src="<?php echo getCustomAlbumThumb(null, $iw, $ih, $cw, $ch); ?>"
alt="<?php echo getAlbumTitle(); ?>"
width="<?php echo $iw; ?>" height="<?php echo $ih; ?>" />
<?php<br />
if (getAlbumDesc() == '') {
echo '[' . getAlbumTitle() . ']';
} else {
echo '' . getAlbumDesc();
} ?>
`
This is the code that displays each image in an
`` in the album loop in index.php. It looks very similar in the album.php file as well. Then, you'll need to pull CSS from the css file that is supplied with joshuaink that corresponds with each CSS selector in the above code, and wrap that in a div labeled main-content.
These two selectors are the most important:
`#main-content a span{
/**/
position:absolute;
left:-9999px;
}
#main-content a:hover span{
top:10px;
left:10px;
width:202px;
font-weight:bold;
background:#FFF;
color:#999;
padding:5px 0 5px 0;
text-transform:uppercase;
font-size:80%;
border:1px solid #EEE;
border-width:0 0 10px 0;
filter: alpha(opacity=100);
-moz-opacity:.8;
opacity:.80;
/**/
}
img{
border: 0px;
/* border:1px solid #EEE; */
/* delete line above and uncomment this for an inset effect
border:1px solid;
border-color:#666 #EEE #EEE #666;
*/
}`
That should get you started. It may require some tweaking and GameDudeX might have some helpful comments too if he sees this thread. But above all this is a matter of trial and error to get it right.
I played with it for hours lol before i posted this.
Ill try and thanks for your help