Help with thumbnail displays

Hi mateo! :)

You have sidebar images throughout the site right?

I'd suggest adding a field called 'section'. Then give it a value of 'services' and upload all the images for the services page on that record.

Then just use a regular page viewer to show the images like this. The only difference is we'll rename some of the variables.

<?php
require_once "lib/viewer_functions.php";
$sidebarOptions = array();
$sidebarOptions['tableName'] = 'sidebar_images';
$sidebarOptions['recordNum'] = ''; // use where below:
$sidebarOptions['where'] = 'section = "services"';
$sidebarRecord = getRecord($sidebarOptions);
?>

Then display your images like this:

<?php foreach getUploads($sidebarOptions['tableName'], 'uploads', $sidebarRecord['num']) as $upload) ?>

<img src="<?php echo $upload['thumbUrlPath'] ?>"
width="<?php echo $upload['thumbWidth'] ?>"
height="<?php echo $upload['thumbHeight'] ?>"
alt="" /><br/>
<?php echo $upload['info1'] ?><br/>

<?php endforeach ?>

See if you can get that far and let me know how it goes. If that works well you can add a record 'sidebar_images' for each page on the site (and add viewers for them).

Hope that helps!

OK, set that all up and I'm getting this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting '(' in /mnt/Target01/337632/351436/www.thomaspaintingllc.com/web/content/test.php on line 75

Here is what I have for php code. (Line 75 is the "foreach getuploads" line:


<?php
require_once "lib/viewer_functions.php";
$sidebarOptions = array();
$sidebarOptions['tableName'] = 'images';
$sidebarOptions['recordNum'] = ''; // use where below:
$sidebarOptions['where'] = 'Page = "references"';
$sidebarRecord = getRecord($sidebarOptions);
?>

and


<?php foreach getUploads($sidebarOptions['tableName'], 'uploads', $sidebarRecord['num']) as $upload) ?>

<img src="<?php echo $upload['thumbUrlPath'] ?>"
width="<?php echo $upload['thumbWidth'] ?>"
height="<?php echo $upload['thumbHeight'] ?>"
alt="" /><br/>
<div class="caption"><p>
<?php echo $upload['caption'] ?><br/>
</p></div>


<?php endforeach ?>

Ahh, sorry about that typo. Change this (add "(" before getUploads and ":" after $upload)):

<?php foreach (getUploads($sidebarOptions['tableName'], 'uploads', $sidebarRecord['num']) as $upload): ?>

and if you still get errors make sure require_once is set to the right path for your server (just copy the line from one of your other viewers or the code generator):

require_once "/path/on/your/server/lib/viewer_functions.php";

And for your caption used 'info2' (or which ever info field your caption is stored in, info2 is default) like this:

<?php echo $upload['info2'] ?>

Hope that helps! Let me know if there's any other problems with that.

Hi Mateo,

Try replacing $upload['Page'] with $upload['info2'].

All the extra upload "info" fields are named info1, info2, etc. The name you specify is just for display purposes only when the user is uploading images.

When modifying code just use the 'info#' fieldname that is displayed beside the field in the field editor.

Hope that helps!

Hi Dave and mateo!

I just wanted to say thanks for this great post. This is exactly along the same lines as an issue I have been struggling with. Your post has helped me solve the problem. It's times like this when I really appreciate forums! Thanks to you and many others who contribute in the forums so we can all benefit and learn from each other.

Take care,
Brian