How to Manually Select Items for "Featured Photos" Option?

SciFi3D Tech · October 1st, 2007, 07:34 PM

Hello, I've been working on getting PP integrated into a vB installation for a while now, and the last thing we'd like to do is have the "featured photos" box at the top of each page only display images that we favorite or designate as such.

Is there a way to specify only a specific category to show up there, so we could just tag the images as we see them and they'd get put into rotation? If there's any way to do it I'd love to know before I try to write it by hand. Thanks in advance.

Chuck S · October 1st, 2007, 09:13 PM

Hello there is no way in the present code for you to do something like that unless you create some modification yourself which you are free to do.

SciFi3D Tech · October 2nd, 2007, 04:24 PM

Thanks for the quick reply. If it's set to show the most recent uploads I'd imagine there would be a way to just make that use the "?cat=" function instead of "&sortby=d" correct? I assume that's how it's set up anyway, if I'm missing something please let me know.

Chuck S · October 3rd, 2007, 10:42 AM

Your talking featured photos they dont work like that. Your thinking this is like showgallery script and it is not. The featured photos is in the display_gallery function in pp-inc.php.

Your free to modify the code in any manner to suit your needs and you may alter the queries in that function to only pull photos from one category.

Or if your just wanting to modify the featured photos that show on the forumhome the file is inc_features.php and you may modify the code.

Adding something like this to queries might work

AND cat = 521

SciFi3D Tech · October 3rd, 2007, 11:49 AM

Ah, that's where I was messing up in my thinking. Thanks very much for your help!

Chuck S · October 3rd, 2007, 10:20 PM

Not a problem enjoy

SciFi3D Tech · October 25th, 2007, 10:49 PM

Sorry to drag this back up, but I have one more question about this. I've tried adding the code you suggested to the bolded section of inc-features.php and it didn't work:

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Did I just add it to the wrong section? I'm a bit lost about this section of code I'm afraid. Any assistance would be awesome - I can take this to the mod forum if needed though.

Chuck S · October 25th, 2007, 11:44 PM

well I dont see where you have added it but there it would be in that file like so

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