General Support: Album Button

I am having trouble making a button appear ONLY on selected albums. Meaning I would like a button that will behave differently depending on which album you are in.

Currently when I navigate to Album 1 I would like to have a button that searchs for the term CPP1. When this button is clicked it shows all the photos in that particular album that have that key word. (CPP1 WOULD be a unqiue keyword that would only apply to pictures in that particular album).

Now the tricky part.

However when I navigate to Album 2 I would no like that same button (same in terms of place name) to search for the term CPP2. When clicked it does the same as the above and remains unique.

And if you go to Album 3 I would like the button to either not be there or not function

Is this possible? Or on the Album level can you only really do a generic function for all albums?

Thanks

Sid,

Thanks for the reply, first off what part is the easier, or are they all the same.

In my vision I woul dhave it in the middle of View as Slideshow and Sort by:

SId,

THanks again for the fast reply. CPP1 would only be in that particular album. Its for flight photos and every say 5th minute we tag on with a tag like CPP1. So when this button works it shows you the picture for every 5th minute and at the distance we are it it almost makes like a panaramic.

CPP1 is only in the Exif information and not related. I do believe the template you create will have to be manually edited for every album I create.

So basically you would do something like this in your 'footer.php' for the theme you are using:
<?php
if ($GLOBALS['plogger_level'] == "album") {
switch ($GLOBALS['plogger_id']) {
case '1': // This is the album id #
$button = "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?level=search&searchterms=CSS1\">CSS1</a>"; // this searches for 'CSS1' if the album id is '1'
break;
case '4': // This is the album id #
$button = "<a href=\"".$_SERVER['PHP_SELF']."?level=search&searchterms=CSS2\">CSS2</a>"; // this searches for 'CSS2' if the album id is '4'
break;
default: //defaults to nothing
$button = '';
break;
}
}
?>
Then wherever you would like to have the button show up, you place the following code:
<?php print $button; ?>
Like if you were using the default theme, your footer.php code could be:
print ' <div id="pagination">
<table style="width: 100%;">
<tr>
<td>'.plogger_slideshow_link().'</td>
<td>'.plogger_pagination_control().'</td>
<td>'.$button.'</td>
<td id="sortby-container">'.plogger_sort_control().'</td>
<td id="rss-tag-container">'.plogger_rss_feed_button().'</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>'."\n";

Posted By: chewbearsSo basically the first album I make is 1, second = 2 etc etc?

Thanks again!

Yep, but you can also check this in the Admin -> Manage section. When you are at the album you want, the URL should read http://yourploggerinstall.com/plog-manage.php?level=pictures&id=4 (where '4' is the ID number for that album).

Alright I spent most of yesterday trying to trouble shoot this and "think" that everything works when pasted but I can not get the button to appear. My button is called button.gif. I think the $button is referencing this, but I am unsure where I was suppose to put the button (folder wise). Testing I am using the default theme so I think as soon as I understand where and how button.gif works or how your code is using the button as an image I will be all set. Still seeing your default footer would be great. You can e-mail too if need be to attach files.

Thanks sid!

Well Sid, I just figured it out, I am embaressed to say, but... I was refreshing in album ID '2' not 1 or 4 : ( It works great !!!

One thing I am noticing though is that if the collection ID matches the Album ID I get the text on the collection and the album that matches the number. So Collection 1 has CSS1 and Album 1 does as well.

Also as I am developing my ideas I just ran into the problem which I thought was impossible. What if 1 album has CCS1 and CSS2? Could there be a drop down mnu like the one next to sort by: That would allow the user to choose which string (css1 or css2)? Thanks so much

Sid you can look into it but I would like to research what exactly I would want out of this feature, so I would rather you not spend time looking into it too much until I have an idea of what exactly I would want out of a feature like this. I am just thinking of how to populate multiple CSS1 links but not having it look sloppy, so drop down boxes where my next best idea. If you have any ideas of how to make it look more professional let me know. I just didn't want it to say CSS1, CSS2, right there in the footer.