groups of thumbs from two or more albums on single page

mliuzzi

I want to be able to combine the thumbnail sets from different albums, so that they can be displayed on the same page.

http://mikeliuzzi.com/gallery.htm</>

Ideally I would be able to have each of the categories on the page above to be their own album

I'm somewhat inclined as to how the php does its work, but I cannot seem to find the loop that creates the thumbnails. I assume all I need to do is get this to continue through all the albums rather than stopping after one album is finished processing.

thanks

acrylian

Just place the `next_image()` loop from album.php within the `next_album()` loop.
http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/functions/_template-functions.php.html#functionnext_image

Additionally you could use the class methods of the album and image class directly.

mliuzzi

I've tried this and still can't seem to get it working. I'm not exactly sure where to place the next_image() loop in relation to what is already contained within the next_album() loop. Within the "album" div? the "thumb" div? Do I remove the contents of the next_album() loop and replace them with the next_image() loop?

half the time it doesn't do anything, and the other half of the time it just returns nothing for the thumbnails.

thanks for all your help, and of course the great script

acrylian

Where you place the next_image loop and if you remove the other albums part is actually your decision of design (showing the album thumb might be quite useless if you already show the contents).

The next_image loop will of course only return the thumbs for images in the direct album. If you have an album with albums it will not return anything.

mliuzzi

sweet... it worked thanks a million man

just a heads up to anyone who tries this, you have to take the `next_image()` loop from album.php and place it within the `next_album()` loop on the index.php file. I kept on trying to do everything inside album.php and just kept going in circles (loops?)..

also, `printPageListWithNav` gave me errors so I just took it out

thanks again