Adding name in slideshow

[iamalive]

Hi Jan

I am using the plugin to show fotos of students in aclass. There is a need to be able to add their name to the image. In the Thumbnail view, the name gets cut off, because of the size limitation and when one opens the image up in the gallery component, the name of the image isn't shown. I need to be able to show this information and maybe even some more text (description) under the image. Is this possible?

Regards

[Jan]

I am planning on to do description in detail view ....

Now you can do:

1. Changing the string length under the thumbnail view in:

joomla/components/com_phocagallery/views/category/tmpl/default.php

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<div class="name"><?php echo PhocaGalleryHelper::wordDelete($value->title, 11, '...'
);?></div>


Just change the value '11' to your own value... But you must make smaller the font in class 'name' in:
joomla/components/com_phocagallery/assets/
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#phocagallery .name{margin-top:5px;color:#135cae;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold;
text-align:center;}



Add to this class e.g.:
font-size:8px


I hope, it will help you, please let me know ...

Jan

[iamalive]

Hi Jan

Well I added the class as below:

#phocagallery .name{margin-top:5px;color:#135cae;font-style:italic;font-weight:b
old;text-align:center;font-size:6px;}



but it had no effect. I also changed the other section, but unless the font-size changes , I guess I won't see if its changed the number of letters in the titel. However...

Any other ideas?

Thanks for the rapid replies, Jan - it's appreciated, believe me.

Regards

David

[Jan]

Which browser do you use? Did you clear private data (cookies, memory, forms, password...) after changing the CSS? I tried it, it works, but the CSS file must be reloaded...

Jan

[iamalive]

Well I used Firefox and my cpanel to change the file, then viewed it in firefox, IE/ and IE6 with no effect. I had cleared the cache. I've now just checked in Opera which I haven't used and it's the same in that too - no change in the font-size.
I even tried setting it to 25px but no change.

I don't know what else I can do

[Jan]

It works for me. Please let me know your website...

[iamalive]

http://mbsz-executive.ch/mbsz/index.php ... n&id=116%3 Adiplomfeier_herbst_2007+&option=com_content&Itemid=152&limitstart=2

[Jan]

It looks like there is a collision between your template and Phoca Gallery. Because your site doesn't use font formats from phocagallery.css. Your template set back the font formats created by phocagallery.css.

There is an other solution:
Go to
joomla/plugins/content/phocagallery.php
and add e.g.: font-size:8px after $font_color:

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From:

$output .= '<div class="name" style="color: '.$font_color.' ;">'.PhocaGalleryHel
per::wordDelete($image->title, 11, '...').'</div>';



To:
$output .= '<div class="name" style="color: '.$font_color.' ;font-size:8px">'.Ph
ocaGalleryHelper::wordDelete($image->title, 11, '...').'</div>';



Jan

[iamalive]

There's something not quite right in that line, but I don't know what. It gives the error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mbszexec/public_html/mbs
z/plugins/content/phocagallery.php on line 316


David

[Jan]

If you copy the code from this forum, you get error, because this forum wrap the code to more lines and makes spaces in function string PhocaGalleryHelper:

From:
PhocaGalleryHelper::wordDelete

To:
Ph
ocaGalleryHelper::wordDelete

You must delete this space in your source code or copy this code:

$output .= '<div class="name" style="color: '.$font_color.' ;font-size:8px">'.
PhocaGalleryHelper::wordDelete($image->title, 11, '...').'</div>';