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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
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Posts: 9,770
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.
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
Developer
Joined: Jul '07
Posts: 13,367
http://www.zenphoto.org/2010/02/zenphotos-object-model-framework/#creating-an-object
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,"<folder name of the album>");
how should i do to create an object from a dynamic album ?
acrylian
Developer
Joined: Jul '07
Posts: 13,367
The same way. Since a dynamic album is not a folder you have to use its name. In your case probably "portfolio.alb".
hi
there is the code I try to implement :
<div id="daily-image">
<?php
$gallery_object = new Gallery();
$album_object = new Album($gallery_object,'Portfolio.alb');
$image = getRandomImagesAlbum($album_object, true);
if (is_object($image) && $image->exists) {
echo '';
echo '<img src="' . htmlspecialchars($image->getCustomImage(null, 400, null, null, null, null, null, true)) . '" alt="' . html_encode(gettext('Gallery')) . '"/>';
echo '';
} ?>
Image du jour
</div>
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
Chief Developer
Joined: May '07
Posts: 9,770
Since that is a dynamic album presumably the images could come from anywhere in the gallery.
Hi,
maybe you could try something like that ?
<?php printRandomImages(1,'daily-image','album','portfolio.alb','','',true);?>
@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 ?
It works very fine for me that way :
I get random pics from my dynamic album without problem.
Did you try it ?
Cheers.
@flu
you are right :
<?php printRandomImages(1,'daily-image','album','portfolio.alb','','',true);?> works well
and <?php works well too
$gallery_object = new Gallery();
$album_object = new Album($gallery_object,'Portfolio.alb');
$image = getRandomImagesAlbum($album_object); ?>
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.
I have created a ticket http://www.zenphoto.org/trac/ticket/1834
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
Developer
Joined: Jul '07
Posts: 13,367
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.
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
Developer
Joined: Jul '07
Posts: 13,367
It comes all down to this: http://www.zenphoto.org/news/zenphotos-object-model-framework
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