Adapting Image Gallery

Rach73

I'm creating a website for someone and they want to be able to update it themselves by adding photos and descriptions once its done. I'm totally new to PHP but thought this might be a good way of doing it.

I have found an image gallery script which seems to do what I want - it allows the user to upload a photo which will be shown as a thumbnail and can be clicked on for a larger image. It also allows a description which can be entered as plain text or HTML. As the person who'll be updating it doesn't know HTML, I would like to be able to create more than one description box, each formatted differently, so for example, one for a title, one for a subtitle and one for a description. So they just need to enter text into each one.

I have attached the script I am using (I have already started to adapt it slightly from my very limited knowledge!) and I wondered if someone could give me a pointer as to which bit I need to copy/change to allow for more than one description box for each photo.

I'm good with HTML so I can sort out how it will appear on the final page, but just need to know how to add further description boxes for each photo.

Thanks in advance for any help.
Rachel

rachel2004

I didn't study your code in-depth, but since you already know HTML well, this shouldn't be too complicated for you to follow.

You'll see a line like this in your code (around line 523):

$v56 .= "<textarea name=\"imagedesc\" wrap=\"VIRTUAL\" class=\"formTextArea\">".stripslashes($v53)."</textarea><br>\n";

The HTML portion should already be familiar to you, so I'll focus on what you need to do in PHP. The concatenation operator (which is the .= ) means to add the values to the right of the symbol to what is already in the variable $v56. So, to add another input field for a second line of description like you're asking for, you just need to duplicate the line that copied and pasted for you and insert into below the existing line so they will now look like this:

$v56 .= "<textarea name=\"imagedesc\" wrap=\"VIRTUAL\" class=\"formTextArea\">".stripslashes($v53)."</textarea><br>\n";
$v56 .= "<textarea name=\"imagedesc2\" wrap=\"VIRTUAL\" class=\"formTextArea\">".stripslashes($v53)."</textarea><br>\n";

You may have to check elsewhere in your file for other lines that refer to an image description input field and just repeat what I've told you above. Notice how I named the second image description name as "imagedescription2".

Rach73

Thanks very much for your help. I've managed to put in the extra description box, but I'm having trouble getting it to display the results properly.

I've added another line (around line 884 of my original attachment)

$v56 .= "			<p><span class=\"displayBigImageText\">".stripslashes($v53)."</span>\n";

And this makes it display what is entered into the two description boxes. However, when I enter text into the description boxes and click 'update', it copies whatever I wrote in the first box into the second box. So if I typed 'hello' into the first box, and 'how are you' into the second, it would display 'hello hello' on the final page.

I've been playing about with the code and adding in imagedesc2 whereever there is a reference to imagedesc, but its not made any difference.

Any ideas?!?

Thanks
Rachel