Great. Thanks !

Well, since I posted Effervescence_SimpleViewer I have been trying to enhance it. I would like both the Image Title and the Image Description to be displayed as the caption.

There is a line in album.php which passes the text of the caption to SimpleViewer:
<?php while (next_image()): ?><image><filename><?php echo getFullImageURL();?></filename><caption><?php echo getImageTitle()?></caption></image><?php endwhile; ?></simpleviewerGallery><?php

Clearly, the part to modify is the "echo getImageTitle()" bit. In fact I can change this to getImageDescription() and it gladly displays the description as the caption.

So, I have tried to create my own function--getImageCaption() that would concatinate the title and description. I have run into multitudes of problems with this.

First: Placing my code in the customfunctions.php file did not work. The behavior is as if the function could not be found. I have tried moving the "<?php require_once ('customfunctions.php'); ?>" line various places in album.php including duplicating it in each path. Some spots broke things entirely, others just stopped the display after the first thumbnail.

Second: I placed my code in template-functions.php. I can get this to work, sort of. If I just replicate the code of getImageTitle in my function, then things work. If I try to return the two strings for title and descripton, nothing gets displayed.

I may not have the correct PHP syntax for concatinating the strings, so if someone would kindly show me that I will try again. However, the end goal is to use the CDATA technique described in #13 here: http://www.airtightinteractive.com/simpleviewer/faq.html

I'd really appreciate an expert's help.

Hum,

I'm not sure I understand, but you should be able to just do:

`<caption><?php echo getImageTitle().' - '.getImageDescription() ?></caption>`

Tell me if this works for you.

nice gallery ^^
:)

Whenever I try to run simpleviewer, I get a single blank thumbnail and no pictures...example here...

http://marmot-oo7.com/zenphoto/

Has anyone else encountered this? A shot in the dark, I thought it could be permissions so I set everything to 777...but no luck.

Thanks for your help. Here is what I have ended up with.

<caption><![CDATA[<u><b><i><a> "title="Open in a new window">
<?php echo getImageTitle() ?></a>
</u></i></b>
<br></u><?php echo getImageDesc() ?>]]></caption>

I am updating the theme on the WIKI. It now displays the image title with a link to the standard Effervessence image page. Then on a second line it displays the image description.

Please Help, I want to use simpleviewer or simpleviewer-Effervescence but I have only two white crosses. In one post you speak from:
- Very simplified xml generation
- No manual thumbnail generation
It is possible to have more instruction ?
my test site: "http://schiess.free.fr/zenphoto"

Thanks in advance

What version of zenphoto do you have installed? I am running on the SVN, so I don't know if there are issues on previous versions.

When I was having the X's, it was because I had botched the XML processing. However, that was because I had incorrectly modified the Effervescence theme with simpleviewer. If you have copied the themes from the WIKI to your server that should not be the issue.

Also, my host allows for mod_rewrite to be enabled. You should check that.

Does the Default theme work correctly?

I use zenphoto 1.0.8.2 with -Effervescence+SimpleViewer- or -SimpleViewer 1.1- from Wiki. The other themes (default, dark ..) work perfectly. I think my problem is how to use the xml processing ?

aschiess: You need to be running the SVN version of Zenphoto.

Skwid: I have done some more modifications of the efferevescence_simpleviewer theme. But I am having some strange problems.

Basically what I am trying to do is add pagination to the subalbums/simpleviewer page such that the Flash show is that 'last' page in the list. Sometimes it works and sometimes it does not.

Visit http://www.albums.sbillard.org/Test%20Album/ and click on page 3. This works. visit http://www.albums.sbillard.org/Test%20Album/Bejing/ and click on page 3 and it does not work. Simpleviewer seems to be loading images, there are placeholders for all the thumbs, but nothing shows up.

I know that the problem is related to pages, because I have put in a ?nopages parameter that supresses all the paging and shows the Flash at the bottom of the page. This works.

However, I can't see what pages have to do with the images not showing.
Any ideas? (code is on the Wiki if you wish to see what I have done.)

OK, found a work-a-round. Still don't know why the original code failed, but not an issue anymore.

hi,

sub-albums display X's, but non-sub-albums work fine. please help

i use SVN, effervescence_simpleviewer.3.zip (68.1 kB) -Effervescence+SimpleViewer. v2.7, added by sbillard on 08/02/07 13:31:24 from wiki

thank you for all your work combining the two.

Can you post an URL? I have found that this theme does not work unless `mod_rewrite` is set to true.

it's at: http://www.bluepego.com/hinh/svn

thank you for the quickly reply sbillard.

the access log shows up an error in the URL: (there's one extra [i] /hinh [/i] in the URL):

24.6.54.118 - - [08/Aug/2007:05:11:11 -0600] "GET /hinh[i]/hinh[/i]/svn/albums/children/grandChildTwo/340.children.benefit.concert.2007.04.01-01.jpg HTTP/1.1" 404 0 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6"

I have never seen this error. I also don't see where the code could duplicate just the '/hinh' and not the full prefix '/hinh/svn'. My album is in the root of my subdomain. That is, there is no prefix before the '/albums' folder. Maybe you could try that setup and see if it makes a difference.

you're right, sbillard. i tried your suggestion and the pictures in sub-albums showed up fine. i take it that there's an error in the code.

thank you for all your help and swift responses. :-)

I guess there is an error somewhere. I will leave it to the experts to figure out where.

Well, couldn't leave it to the experts. I did find a SimpleViewer dependency which was causing problems with deeply nested albums (which I think is what hoan was seeing.) I've posted an update to Effervescence+Simpleviewer on the WIKI Themes page.

Hi

Please help me :-)

I would like to make a simpleviewer galleri with information to each
thumbnails

"Sbillad" posted an example with following which is very usefull:

<caption><![CDATA[<u><b><i> "title="Open in a new window">
<?php echo getImageTitle() ?>
</u></i></b>
<br></u><?php echo getImageDesc() ?>]]></caption>

My question is....is it possible to add a link to each thumbnails

I have tried with following:

<image>
<filename>115-1503_IMG.jpg</filename>
<caption><![CDATA[<u><b><i>test</u></i></b><br></u>filstor<br>Visit W3Schools!<br><a href="http://www.dr.dk/"
target="_blank">Visit DR!]]></caption>
</image>

...but the link will not work, even though that the mouse pointer does change from a arrow to
a hand

I will be very happy if you have an example with link...like

Is that possible ?

Thanks in advance