Photo of the Day to the Index page

JeffCooper

Hi

Please could someone help me with adding a 'photo of the day' to the home page. I would like this to appear above the gallery thumbs.

The image could be populated from a specific gallery (ie I could create a gallery called 'photo of the day' and just keep one photo in there) or it could automatically select the image last uploaded from a gallery. I don't mind which - whichever is easiest to implement.

I have modified the default/dark template. My site so far is www.hedshot.co.uk

Thanks

sbillard

download the nightly build and take a look at the Effervescence+ theme. Look at the file indexpage.php. It places an image of the day picture on the home page. The image is randomly choosen, but you could select a image any way you wish.

Please note that this uses functions that are not available in the base 1.2 release.

flu

Hi.
I'm not an expert but in order to do that, I'd try this way :
1. I would tag every strip I want to show on the index page (with "photo of the day" for example).

2. I would create a dynamic album using this tag.
http://www.zenphoto.org/2008/09/how-to-use-the-dynamic-albums-feature/

3. Then, I would use the printLatestAlbums functions of the image_album_statistics plugin to display this specific album on the home page.
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/plugins/_plugins---image_album_statistics.php.html

flu

Sorry, I haven't seen the post by sbillard. Trust him !!

JeffCooper

Thanks sbillard and flu. I have checked out the Effervescence theme and have found the code referring to the photo of the day. I have copy/pasted it into my page but I am guessing it's not as easy as that!

I get this error message...

Fatal error: Call to undefined function makeimagecurrent() in
/home/jeffncou/public_html/hedshot.co.uk/themes/default/index.php on line 24

I am a newbie to zenphoto and php - would you be able to help me with a more detailed explanation. Thanks for your help

sbillard

I think you missed the part which says that you need to install the nightly build. That function does not exist in the 1.2 release.

JeffCooper

Hi sbillard. I have downloaded the nightly build but want to double check my next move. After I install the update do I need to use the effervescence theme for my site to get the photo of the day function? If possible I would like to stick to the default/dark theme but with the photo of the day feature. Is this possible?

sbillard

You do not have to use the EF+ theme. That is just for an example. But of course, you will have to add the code to any other theme you wish to use.