General Support: Custimizing the head part - Titles and description as photo Name

Excellent point. I would like to be able to do this as well.

T2

Thank you Mike. Do you have a release date for Beta 3?

Best Regards,
T2

I have a heavily customized version of Plogger 2.1b and I'd like to get the title thing to work. However, the mod above is based on the Beta 3 version and calls for functions that are not in the 2.1b version.

I hesitate to upgrade the gallery.php and plog-functions.php files as I've spent a lot of time modifying them. Can you give some advice how to deal with this? Should I upgrade?

I'm using an earlier version of the generate_title function which fits better in 2.1. I have customized it, so make sure you back up your gallery.php, plog-functions.php and read through this post before adding it in. I don't use slideshow in my gallery, so that level isn't considered here. This will take a little work to avoid some errors and get it working right, but isn't too difficult. You can see it in action at:
http://www.solemnchaos.net/gallery/

You'll need to add 2 additional functions to plog-functions.php (or remove the references to them in the generate_title function). Here are the 2 additional functions and the generate_title function:

//quote_smart shown in ex. 3 at http://us3.php.net/mysql_real_escape_string
// Quote variable to make safe
function quote_smart($value)
{
// Stripslashes
if (get_magic_quotes_gpc()) {
$value = stripslashes($value);
}
// Quote if not integer
if (!is_numeric($value)) {
$value = "'" . mysql_real_escape_string($value) . "'";
}
return $value;
}
//sc strip filename extension from breadcrumbs, title, album
function strip_ext($fext)
{
return substr($fext, 0, strrpos($fext, '.'));
}

function generate_title($level, $id){
global $TABLE_PREFIX;
switch ($level){

case 'collection':
$query = "SELECT id, name FROM plogger_collections WHERE id= '".$id."'";
quote_smart($query);
$result = run_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$titlebar = $row["name"];

break;

case 'album':
$query = "SELECT id, name, parent_id FROM plogger_albums WHERE id = '".$id."'";
quote_smart($query);
$result = run_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$album_name = $row["name"];

$query = "SELECT id, name FROM plogger_collections WHERE id ='".$row["parent_id"]."'";
quote_smart($query);
$result = run_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$titlebar = $row["name"] . ' » ' . $album_name;

break;

case 'picture':
$query = "SELECT id, path, parent_album FROM plogger_pictures WHERE id = '".$id."'";
quote_smart($query);
$result = run_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$picture_name = basename($row["path"]);

$query = "SELECT id, name, parent_id FROM plogger_albums WHERE id ='".$row["parent_album"]."'";
quote_smart($query);
$result = run_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$album_name = $row["name"];

$query = "SELECT id, name FROM plogger_collections WHERE id ='".$row["parent_id"]."'";
quote_smart($query);
$result = run_query($query);
$row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result);

$collection_name = $row["name"];
$picture_name = strip_ext($picture_name);
$titlebar = $collection_name . ' » ' . $album_name . ' » ' . $picture_name;

break;

default:
$titlebar = ' Gallery';
}

return $titlebar;
}


OK, now in your gallery.php file, around line 23 you will see these lines (don't add them):
if (is_array($resolved_path)) {
$_GET["level"] = $resolved_path["level"];
$_GET["id"] = $resolved_path["id"];

Add this line right after them (we're adding it here to make sure level and id are defined before using the generate_title function):

$title = generate_title($_GET["level"], $_GET["id"]);

Now around line 37, you will see this line:
if ($_GET["level"] == "slideshow")

ABOVE this line add:

if (empty($title)) $title = ' Gallery';

and move the $inHead lines here next (currently at lines 12-15):
$inHead = <<<EOT
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${baseurl}css/gallery.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="${baseurl}dynamics.js"></script>
EOT;

finally, change the $inHead lines, so they look like this (we are adding the title here):
$inHead = <<<EOT
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="${baseurl}css/gallery.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="${baseurl}dynamics.js"></script>
<title>$title</title>
EOT;

solemnchaos: this code doesn't doing job for me, on every page i now don't have title. What to do?

Thank you for answer!
I have no errors, just title is not showing, and yes i use cruft-free urls. I read somewhere that this is included in beta3. Will i loose something by going on beta3?