random pict of a dynamic album

vincent3569

hi

I want to make a dynamic album called "portfolio".
I would like to display a random image taken in this album.

the getRandomImagesAlbum() function needs the folder name from which to get the image, but there is no folder created for a dynamic album.

so, how can I displayed a random image taken in a dynamic album ?

thanks for your help

sbillard

Actually, if you look at that function you will see that the "album" parameter is defined as "mixed" and can be an object or folder. (http://www.zenphoto.org/documentation/functions/_template-functions.php.html#functiongetRandomImagesAlbum)

so you pass it the album object.

vincent3569

hi

could you help me to write the correct syntax to obtain the object of my dynamic album called "portfolio" ?

I'm stuck on this thing since one week :-(

thanks in advance.

acrylian

http://www.zenphoto.org/2010/02/zenphotos-object-model-framework/#creating-an-object

vincent3569

Thanks acrylian
I have read it before posting, but the only way to create an album object is with the folder name of the album :
`$albumobject = new Album($galleryobject,"");`

how should i do to create an object from a dynamic album ?

acrylian

The same way. Since a dynamic album is not a folder you have to use its name. In your case probably "portfolio.alb".

vincent3569

hi

there is the code I try to implement :

`

<?php<br />
$gallery_object = new Gallery();

$album_object = new Album($gallery_object,'Portfolio.alb');

$image = getRandomImagesAlbum($album_object, true);

if (is_object($image) && $image->exists) {

echo '';

echo 'getCustomImage(null, 400, null, null, null, null, null, true)) . '" alt="' . html_encode(gettext('Gallery')) . '"/>';

echo '';

} ?>



Image du jour

`

but it doesn't work : the random pic is taken from the whole gallery and not in my dynamic album.

what's going wrong ?

sbillard

Since that is a dynamic album presumably the images could come from anywhere in the gallery.

flu

Hi,
maybe you could try something like that ?

`<?php printRandomImages(1,'daily-image','album','portfolio.alb','','',true);?>`

vincent3569

@flu : printRandomImages() have a call of getRandomImagesAlbum() if option = album
according to me, the problem will be the same.

@sbillard : I don't understand what you would say.
My dynamic album have 10 pictures.
Actually, the call of the function returns other pictures than de 10 ones of my dynamic album.

where is the problem ?

flu

It works very fine for me that way :
I get random pics from my dynamic album without problem.
Did you try it ?

Cheers.

vincent3569

@flu
you are right :

`<?php printRandomImages(1,'daily-image','album','portfolio.alb','','',true);?>` works well

and `<?php<br />
$gallery_object = new Gallery();

$album_object = new Album($gallery_object,'Portfolio.alb');

$image = getRandomImagesAlbum($album_object); ?>` works well too

but if I want daily picture it doesn't work : the random pic is taken from the whole gallery and not in my dynamic album.

=> the daily option seems to cause an issue.

vincent3569

I have created a ticket http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/1834

js0624

Can we list the photo from dynamic album rather than random, cause I followed the codes given by @vincent3569 it is working yet I don't know how can I list all the photos of dynamic album.

What I mean is? Is there any functions that says getImagesAlbum, to list down all the contents of the dynamic album, instead of random. Thanks.

acrylian

js0624, why do you post the same question of your topic on another thread? Did you even bother to look at the documentation? How about `$object->getImages()` maybe?

Of course dynamic albums are special as the images still belong to their real albums.

js0624

Hi acrylian, my apology, I thought it is much clearer if I will post it here... I tried your code and it works, that's what I am looking for... I have another problem, if you don't mind. I have noticed that only filename and folder is available, how can I get the permalink of the photos? Thanks in advance.

acrylian

It comes all down to this: http://www.zenphoto.org/news/zenphotos-object-model-framework