Problem with Long Titles

[dakis]

My gallery has 2,500 photos imported successfully from coppermine. The problem is that in every photo that didn't have a title, its filename is being used in its place.

This causes a big problem, because some filenames are pretty long, and some gallery pages appear very very wide - so that they can fit the loooong titles.

1. Is there a way to tell Photopost not to use the filenames as titles?

2. Can I put a maximum character condition to the titles when users upload images?

3. Can I make the title field mandatory when uploading?

[Chuck S]

1. all depends where your talking.

2. all depends where your talking

All your questions concern code modifications to varying degrees so knowing where your talking about helps.

3. Possibly in your uploadphoto template maybe add this in bold

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[dakis]

Thanks for your reply Chuck.

What do you mean "where I'm talking" ? If you are asking in which pages I want this, I need it in the showgallery page mostly, check this out: http://www.travelstories.gr/photo/sh...ery.php?cat=26

[Chuck S]

http://www.travelstories.gr/photo/sh...ery.php?cat=26

The link clearly shows we limit the title on that page notice your long titles truncated with three periods

[dakis]

Chuck,

Please check below the first block of photos, to the second block that resides exactly below it. This shows the recent photos, and as you see it does not truncate them, as it does in the above block. The same thing happens if the photos with the long titles (those with underscores) appear in the random photos block on the left sidebar.

So my original question remains; how can I tell photopost not to use filenames as photo titles in showgallery? If there is no title, it should be left empty. Is this possible?

[Chuck S]

Those would also be shown on the index you are talking featured photos. Thats pp-inc.php the display_gallery function.

You can try adding around line 1206 in pp-inc.php where noted the bold line below.

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[dakis]

Ok Chuck this solved the problem, by cutting off the title if longer than some characters.

This solves my practical problem (pages no longer stretch) but not my aesthetic problem, because I have tons of photos with no titles -for example they only have description- and they show up with their filename as title, which is really ugly.

Is there a way to tell photopost not to use the filename if no title exists?

Once again, thanks for your response, if there is a way to do this extra thing I need I would appreciate it.

Cheers.

[Chuck S]

Again it all depends where as I pointed out again. By default we will always use a filename if there is no title makes perfect sense.

So where are you talking? We do have code mod forums outside support for you to ask questions like this which fall outside support. I dont mind answering small code questions like these as long as one is very specific where they are talking.

[dakis]

Ok Chuck understood about the questions outside the support procedure.

If making the title photo mandatory is easier or has been coded already, that would work too -for the next photos- (for the ones I have, I will manually edit the titles).

[Chuck S]

like I said if you tell me where I may be able to assist like I did above if its something simple but I need to know where.

[dakis]

Chuck, I'm sorry I don't understand. I need to make either or both of these two things;

1. Make the field "title" when a user uploads a photo, mandatory. This means users can't upload photos if they don't enter a title.

2. In showgallery pages, if titles are not present, photopost displays no title, instead of posting filenames which is the present status.


Again, if you believe I'm crossing support lines here please let me know. I would like to do both these things, but I will be happy even with one.

EDIT: Ok Chuck forget about number 1. , I found the way to do it in an old 2005 post of yours

[Chuck S]

1. this i already posted on above.

2. this is how things are suppose to work

Any further mod questions you are free to post in our mod forums.

[dakis]

Ok cool. Thanks for your fast responses.