Complex image question (display an image if image category = 'x' )

mrjysta · 2009-02-02 19:34:25

I have been playing the hak_article_image and upm_image but have yet to find a solution with which to display an image thumbnail, (linking to an article page) that will take an image from the article list based on it’s category name. Does such a plug-in, method exist for doing this???

The reason I ask is I need a way of assigning a specific thumbnail for each article and each article has 3-10 images. Being a profile site it’s quite impotant that a specific thumbnail image is used. I’m alreading using the plug-in mentioned above and atb_image_pulldown. Because the articles are image intensive I will also be looking into an batch import plug-in for files and images. If anyone could recommends anything out there/?

Muchos Gracias Amigos/

els · 2009-02-02 19:45:07

mrjysta wrote:

take an image from the article list based on it’s category name.

~~Do you mean based on the image’s category name?~~ And does it really have to be based on the image category, or have you thought about using a custom field for this?

Edit: sorry, didn’t read the subject very well ;)

Last edited by els (2009-02-02 19:46:25)

rsilletti · 2009-02-02 20:29:31

You might take a look at this ras_if_category_type it will take both the category type and category name as attributes.

mrjysta · 2009-02-02 20:50:21

Els wrote:

~~Do you mean based on the image’s category name?~~ And does it really have to be based on the image category, or have you thought about using a custom field for this?

I’m already at my limit with custom fields :’-( otherwise that could be an option/

jakob · 2009-02-02 21:42:42

The reason I ask is I need a way of assigning a specific thumbnail for each article and each article has 3-10 images. Being a profile site it’s quite impotant that a specific thumbnail image is used.

I too am not sure if I quite understand you, but inferring from what you wrote here, does this mean that you are using an image-category to denote which image will be used as “the profile title image”? If so, I’ve solved this another way by placing the title image first in the article-image field and use hak_article_image with the attribute limit="1" for the profile list page. If that image should not show on the actual profile itself (for example when it has a different size for the profile list page), use the attribute offset="1" for the individual profile page. Maybe that is an alternative way of going about it?

mrjysta · 2009-02-02 22:31:15

jakob wrote:

does this mean that you are using an image-category to denote which image will be used as “the profile title image”?

Yes jakob, but with atb_image_pulldown I have no way of ensuring a specific order in the article image list. Thus ‘offset’ is not able to pick the correct image in each article. The reason I’m using atb_image_pulldown is so other users will be able to upload images and write articles. Therefore the articles image list can be assumed to be in a random order each time.

I have found smd_gallery which offers a display by category but it doesn’t seem to offer the nice thumbnail linking that you get in hak_

category : list of image categories to display. You may specify fixed-name categories (e.g. “animals”) or a question mark followed by an article field name. e.g. category=“animals, art-?id” would grab all images from category “animals” and category “art-42” (assuming the current article has an id of 42).

els · 2009-02-02 22:56:08

Maybe I’m over-estimating a certain plugin now (though I hardly believe that is possible), but wouldn’t smd_if be able to check if an image with category ‘x’ had an id that exists in the article image field?

Bloke · 2009-02-02 22:57:34

mrjysta wrote:

I have found smd_gallery which offers a display by category but it doesn’t seem to offer the nice thumbnail linking that you get in hak_

Are you sure? You can build your thumbnail gallery how you want with a form in smd_gallery. If you explain a bit more about what you mean by this (I’ve never used hak_ sorry) then I might be able to advise you on an equivalent.

If you want to isolate a single image, you might get somewhere with the smd_if plugin which you can embed in smd_gallery like this:

<txp:smd_gallery category="?article_image">
<txp:smd_if field="{category}" operator="eq" value="my_printy_thumbnail_category">
   <a href="<txp:permlink />"><txp:thumbnail id="{id}" /></a>
</txp:smd_if>
</txp:smd_gallery>

(untested, off the top of my head)

mrjysta · 2009-02-02 23:46:43

Ah, i’ll look into downloadng smd_if !!!

To paint a bit of a picture, I hope this makes sense:

The section hompages contains a 5col grid of upto 50 thumbnail images, each linking to their article pages. Each article is a profile that holds 5-10 images on a particular member (+ some custom fields and body text etc..). (all been dealt with using Jquery cycle + hak/) this side of things all works great.

now:
What needs to be ensured is that the thumbnail being displayed on the homepage is the members prefered image, rather then the first image in the articles_image list.

Each articles thumbnail on the homepage would be assigned the “profile” category in the images tab. This would ensure the correct image of the 5-10 images is displayed on the homepage for that particular article.

Using the category means we can be specific across all articles regardless/

This in principle doesn’t seem like it would be too difficult to achieve, <txp:article_image_category /> tag maybe ?????
I’ll have another look at the help on smd_gallery and also smd_if in the morning/

mrjysta · 2009-02-06 00:21:17

Hi guys, please don’t give up on me just yet ;-P

This is what I had setup with Hak. Created a thumbnail link for each article in a 4 column grid on the main page. Each image was inside a Div with the Alt text displayed underneath the thumbnail. Only problem with this is I can’t specify a particular thumbnail I want using the image category.

In main page:
<txp:article limit“50” form=“main_thumbs” />

main_thumbs:
<div class=“pfilebox”><txp:hak_article_image form=“alt_form” limit=“1”/></div>

alt_form:
<txp:hak_article_image_link type=“page”><txp:hak_thumbnail class=“pfilepic” /><txp:hak_image_alt wraptag=“h3” class=“indent” /></txp:hak_article_image_link>

Had A look into smd_gallery. Your example seemed to make sense Bloke. So I amened the code slightly and re-referenced the form in my main page:

In main page:
<txp:article limit“50” form=“smd_thumbs” />

smd_thumbs
<txp:smd_gallery category=”?article_image”>
<txp:smd_if field=”{category}” operator=“eq” value=“Profile”>
<div class=“pfilebox”><a href=”<txp:permlink />”><txp:thumbnail id=”{id}” class=“pfilepic” /></a></div>
</txp:smd_if>
</txp:smd_gallery>

Only problem is I get nothing on the page :-/
Am I calling the form in the wrong way and also is there a way in smd to display the images alt text like I have done in hak/

the_ghost · 2009-02-06 00:58:57

Is this code copies as-isfrom your template?

In main page:
<txp:article limit“50” form=“main_thumbs” />

You have missed = after limit. And switch site work mode to Debug or Test – if messages occure – they can help to find error

jm · 2009-02-06 01:10:09

mrjysta wrote:

Yes jakob, but with atb_image_pulldown I have no way of ensuring a specific order in the article image list.

Just for future reference, jmd_img_selector doesn’t sort article-images, so the order you select the images in is the order used by the article-image field.

Last edited by jm (2009-02-06 01:10:28)

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