Initiate gallery from a single image

[Njilski]

Hi there.

I've been struggling to get the gallery-extension to open from a single image in an article. Can anybody tell me how I do this? Shouldn't it just be going into an article and selecting "new element" and then "gallery". When I do this there is no option on using a single image to launch the gallery.

Can anybody help me?

Thank you
/Njilski

[Justin]

I'm not sure I understand. You want to have a single image link to a gallery?

You would create a page with a single image on it. When this image is clicked, it would link to a second page with a gallery on it?

Is that the basic idea?

[Njilski]

Hi Justin and thanks for your reply.

The basic idea is that I would like to initiate the lightbox-gallery from clicking a single image from an article page. I have also thought about making a second page with gallery on it as an alternative, but would prefer if the gallery would load as lightbox so I didn't have to make too many pages.

Best regards
Andreas

[tsarma]

Edited the gallery_default.tpl

[Njilski]

Thanks for the comeback Tsarma.

I thought about that I might need to edit the template, but can't see my way through how to do it. Can you tell me how you edited the gallery_default.tpl if you have already made this modification?

Thank you.

[tsarma]

For example :

<?php $i=0; ?>
<?php foreach ($this->body as $class=>$row): ?>
<?php foreach ($row as $col): ?>
<?php if (!$col->addImage): ?>
<?php else: ?>
<?php if($i<=0):?>
  	 <div class="image_container"<?php if ($col->margin): ?> style="<?php echo $col->margin; ?>"<?php endif; ?>>
		<?php if ($col->href): ?>
    	<a href="<?php echo $col->href; ?>"<?php echo $col->attributes; ?> title="<?php echo $col->alt; ?>">
    		[img]<?php echo $col->src; ?>[/img]imgSize; ?> alt="<?php echo $col->alt; ?>" />
    	</a>
		<?php $i++; else: ?>
	  		[img]<?php echo $col->src; ?>[/img]imgSize; ?> alt="<?php echo $col->alt; ?>" />
		<?php endif; ?>
  	</div>
<?php else :?>
    	<a href="<?php echo $col->href; ?>"<?php echo $col->attributes; ?> title="<?php echo $col->alt; ?>" class="invisible">
    		[img]<?php echo $col->src; ?>[/img]alt; ?>" />
    	</a>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Please be warned I didn't test it in all situations, may be you can improve it much better.

[Njilski]

Thank you so much for your reply.

I will test it later this week and if I'm able to improve it, I will contact you and give you an update

/Andreas