Photo Titles

tsarge

Is it possible to display the photo titles in the default theme, similar to the albums display? If not, do any other themes allow you to do this?

I am building a pretty large gallery of .flv videos, each with similar thumbnails so they won't be distinguishable without the titles.

Thanks a bunch

olihar

you could add this below the thumb.

`
" title="<?php echo gettext('View album:'); ?> <?php echo getBareAlbumTitle();?>"><?php printAlbumTitle(); ?>
`

tsarge

that looks like its calling the album title - I'd like to show the title of each photo under each photo's thumbnail

acrylian

It is quite similar for image titles, too. Please review the theming tutorial and the documentation as well as the pdf cheat sheets.

olihar

ahh misunderstood, however it is absolutely the same.

`
" title="<?php echo gettext('View image:'); ?> <?php echo getImageTitle();?>"><?php printImageTitle(); ?>
`

tsarge

Thanks for the help guys, I appreciate it. I am a beginner though, in which file would I stick this line? I'll also review those suggestions acrylian.

acrylian

Reading the theming tutorial should give you the clue...:-)

tsarge

haha alrighty... I see you'd rather not have me back here with another question tomorrow. whats the saying? give a man a fish and he wont be hungry for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll never be hungry again?

acrylian

Well, we did not write that tutorial for nothing...:-) Seriously, probably you will get more ideas to customize on the way. Further questions are welcome but first best first get familiar with the bascis.

tsarge

Ok so I managed to get the titles to appear, but I don't know how to control how they are displayed. I assume this takes a better understanding of how the theme works which I don't have (yet - working on it). My gallery is here:

http://www.mattrach.com/new/videos.php

I'd like to make the title wrap so it doesn't effect the width of the border around the thumbnail. I'd also like to change the formatting of the titles. Also, is it possible to show viewcount here? I'll be working on solving these myself, but I'd REALLY appreciate any nudges in the right direction. Thanks again

Tom

acrylian

Themes are just plain XHTML and CSS with PHP template functions so this is how you control their display behaviour.

It is possible to show the view point, please review the documentation on its functions (search for "hitcounter").

tsarge

I guess anyone can help me with this then, I use tables for formatting so am a bit behind on divs. My code looks like this, and all I want to do is place the title below the thumbnail and format it seperately. any help is appreciated as I assume this is a quick fix for most.

`
<?php while (next_image(false, $firstPageImages)): ?>

" title="<?php echo getBareImageTitle();?>"><?php printImageThumb(getAnnotatedImageTitle()); ?>

" title="<?php echo gettext('View image:'); ?> <?php echo getImageTitle();?>"><?php printImageTitle(); ?>

<?php endwhile; ?>
`

sbillard

Just insert the function to print the title in your code below the thumbnail. Put whathever HTML formatting around it that you wish. (Or format it when you create the desctiption.)