General Support: Splitting long title with <br> or by using description - breadcrumb fix?

Yes, there are tons of workaround methods with a little PHP.

You could add an n (newline) then use the nl2br() function to convert it in album view but not picture view. So, in albums:
$output = "Family nPictures";
echo $output; // "Family Pictures" -- HTML will ignore the line break
echo nl2br($output);
// "Family
// Pictures" -- PHP converted the line break, which got ignored before, into a <br />

One thing I don't know is whether nl2br uses a closed br tag, which would suck if you were trying to create a strict XHTML site template.

So, better, and alternatively, I would suggest replacing spaces in the title with <br />, and using &nbsp; (non-breaking space) for words you don't want to separate in the title -- like "My Family" you probably don't want to be:
"My
Family"

So you would input it as "My&nbsp;Family". But "Really Long Title" would become:

"Really
Long
Title"

Just an idea. Use a preg_replace() or ereg_replace() function to search for whitespace (can't think of how that would look, I'm not good with regex). Look them up at php.net, and if you still need help post a reply; I would write out the function, but am on my way out the door. ;)

Best of luck,
Derek

Derek -

I am very new to PHP - I have no clue how to write this str_replace function nor where to put it in the PHP file so it affects album names but not breadcrumbs. And what do I replace the whitespace with?

I'd highly appreciate further instructions...

Debbie

No problem, Debbie. Keep in mind I've modified my installation a lot, so the line numbers will be a bit off.

gallery.php, line ~395:
Below this expression:
if (strlen($filename) > $config["truncate"] && $config["truncate"] != 0)
$filename = substr($filename, 0, $config["truncate"])."...";

Insert/replace:
$output .= '<span class="thumb-title">';
if (!$row['caption']) {
$output .= $filename;
} else {
$output .= stripslashes(str_replace(" ", "<br />",trim($title)); // from inside out: trim ending whitespace from "title", replace " " with "<br />", take out any escaped characters we needed to put the title into mySQL
}
$output .= '</span>';

gallery.php, line ~715:
Below here:

$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

Insert/replace:
if (!$row['caption']) {
$picture_name = basename($row["path"]);
} else {
$picture_name = stripslashes($row['caption']);
}

Looks like you shouldn't have to do anything to allow the "&nbsp;" for spaces you don't want to split in the album view. (If it ran htmlspecialchars(), it would replace the & with &amp; and cause problems. If it does, we'll find it.)

Good luck, lemme know how it goes,

Derek

Should have three ending brackets ")". It's only got two, so it thought the ";" was in stripslashes(), and threw an error. The line SHOULD be:

$output .= stripslashes(str_replace(" ", "<br />",trim($title)));

Now the brackets balance (three open, three closed).

Regards,
Derek

Is it printing out the title at all? Looks like I screwed up. I initially passed the value of caption to $title in my code because I did something else with it. However, you should instead use this:

$output.= stripslashes(str_replace(" ", "<br />",trim($row['caption'])));

Sorry, I know this is a pain. But I tested it, and it's working for me. If it's still not working, change "<br />" to "<br>", though I don't imagine that should be a problem (it's XHTML rather than HTML, but should be backwards-compatible).

HTH,
Derek

Does anyone else have any suggestions? Please comment if you do.