How to get titles for lightbox images
I am using php lightbox (this one is http://www.fatbellyman.com/webstuff/lightbox_gallery/index.php ) to display thumbnails and images automatically. I would like the titles and descriptions of the images to appear on large lightbox images pulled from a separate list (text file?). If possible, do it without using the best database.
This is on my gallery page:
<?php include 'lightbox_display_function.php'; ?>
<?php lightbox_display('apparel/soiled/icarus/', 'lightbox[icarus]'); ?>
And this is lightbox_display_function.php:
<?php function lightbox_display($dir_to_search, $rel){
$image_dir = $dir_to_search;
$dir_to_search = scandir($dir_to_search);
$image_exts = array('gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'png');
$excluded_filename = '_t';
foreach ($dir_to_search as $image_file){
$dot = strrpos($image_file, '.');
$filename = substr($image_file, 0, $dot);
$filetype = substr($image_file, $dot+1);
$thumbnail_file = strrpos($filename, $excluded_filename);
if ((!$thumbnail_file) and array_search($filetype, $image_exts) !== false){
echo "<a href='".$image_dir.$image_file."' rel='".$rel."'>
<img src='".$image_dir.$filename."_t.".$filetype."' alt='".$filename."' width='70' height='70' title='$filename'/>
</a>"."\n";
}
}
}
Do you have some example code of how you have the page structured at the moment from my head, could you hard copy them into some associative array?
Provide a filename for the image so you can concatenate the headers with the required file?
If you post what you have so far, we could take a look and hopefully make suggestions.
- Update -
Hardcore an array for the page before you call it, and include the array as a parameter so that the elements in it can be connected to the corresponding images in the function.
<?php include 'lightbox_display_function.php'; ?>
<?php
$titleArray=array();
$titleArray['RedCar.jpg']="Picture of red car";
$titleArray['BlueCar.jpg']="Picture of blue car";
$titleArray['GreenCar.jpg']="Picture of green car";
lightbox_display('apparel/soiled/icarus/', 'lightbox[icarus]',$titleArray);
?>
So, now in the function we have information for working with
<?php function lightbox_display($dir_to_search, $rel,$titleArray){
$image_dir = $dir_to_search;
$dir_to_search = scandir($dir_to_search);
$image_exts = array('gif', 'jpg', 'jpeg', 'png');
$excluded_filename = '_t';
foreach ($dir_to_search as $image_file){
$dot = strrpos($image_file, '.');
$filename = substr($image_file, 0, $dot);
$filetype = substr($image_file, $dot+1);
$thumbnail_file = strrpos($filename, $excluded_filename);
$title="";
if (array_key_exists($filename, $titleArray)) { //check if the filename matches a key in the array
$title = $titleArray[$filename]; //match, so set $title to equal the title set for that image name in the array
}
if ((!$thumbnail_file) and array_search($filetype, $image_exts) !== false){
//At this point $title can be included in the echo or used in some fashion, put is paired up with the appropriate image.
echo "<a href='".$image_dir.$image_file."' rel='".$rel."'>
<img src='".$image_dir.$filename."_t.".$filetype."' alt='".$filename."' width='70' height='70' title='$filename'/>
</a>"."\n";
}
}
}
I haven't tested this, but it should give you something to work with, theory if nothing else.