I finally decided to use Relating Entries as a solution to my site’s articles. After successfully implementing the relationship, I found that you can connect only one gallery entry from the gallery in a weblog entry. May aim was to associate complete gallery category with some particular entry.

To make things more clear, here is one of my articles that consists a site of images from a specific gallery category.

So, is this possible with the Relating Entries, or should I continue do it manually?

I’m not an expert in EE but a possible solution for this would be to create a custom field in your weblog and insert the appropriate gallery category id there, then inside the weblog:entries tag you would insert the gallery:entries tag and you would pass the value of the custom field to the category id, thus selecting all the photos you wish to display. The downside of this is that you won’t be able to insert text between your photos, but it could be a solution. Hope it helps.

Thanks Isabel, I thought about this solution a while ago, so maybe I’ll try to use it.

You’re welcome. I hope you find a good solution!

Robin has done a lot of this work for you already by creating a little known about extension which basically creates a dropdown menu in the publish page- options are the gallery categories- select one and the category id is entered into the field.  Saves having to flip over to the gallery and look it up and adding gallery tags inside a weblog tag which will add to you queries.

Custom Field
Create a custom field with input text as type and give it a name like {gallerycategory}. On your field group page which lists your custom fields, hover your mouse over the field you created and look at the stats bar below which gives a long url and at the very end is your field_id. Make note of that.

Download the extension here. Be sure to change the 2 items mentioned

You’ll need to open up the extension- and on line 33 alter:
$alter_field = 32;

The number?  That should be the field id of the text field where you want the category id to be inserted.  That field will be ‘replaced’ on the user side by a dropdown filled with the category names.

On line 37 you’ll need to alter:
$results = $DB->query(“SELECT cat_id, gallery_id, cat_name FROM exp_gallery_categories WHERE gallery_id=2 ORDER BY cat_name”);

Change gallery_id=2 to equal the id number of whatever gallery you want to pull the categories from.

Change it, save it, upload it to the extensions folder- then enable the extension.

You can now use {gallerycategory} to grab your images from the specific category

you rock!

thanks.

im having a hard time getting it to work for now, but ill ask in the other thread.

high five sir!

While looking for a solution for a similar problem I found this thread.

I have a weblog “Projects” and I want to associate each project with a category from the “projects” gallery. I created a weblog field named “screenshots_category” which holds the id of the gallery category containing the screenshots I wish to associate with the weblog entry.

I use the following (simplified) code to display the weblog entry with it’s assigned gallery category:

It works to a certain degree. The image url is correct and the images are displayed but {entry_id} is equal to the weblog entry’s id, not to the image’s id. Also, {count} and {total_results} are always equal to 1, no matter how many images there are.

For testing purposes I set the gallery category id manually and deleted the {exp:weblog:entries} tag which produced the desired result, so the problem seems to be the nesting inside the weblog:entries tag.

Does anybody have a solution to this problem?
Thanks in advance

i believe you can take the dynamic parameters out.

Ive done something similar and i noticed i didnt have them in there.

Took them out but nothing has changed. Thanks for the suggestion.

Any other ideas?

You dont have to use the segment_1 and _2 parts. i use it because it works for the project that im working on.

Thanks for your code snippet but I guess it’s no solution to my problem. As far as I can see you even rely on the “error” with {entry_id} being equal to the weblog entry’s id and not the image id, which I need fixed.

To clarify my problem: I need {entry_id} to output the image’s id, not the weblog entry’s id and I need {count} and {total_results} to work.

OOOOOOH i see now. yea good luck with that.

im not sure if there is a way to do that. I know there is a problem with the count and related gallery entries. Im not sure what exactly it is though.

Ok, I’ve got the solution. I created a new template holding the gallery:entries tag which is embedded into the weblog:entries tag. Like so:

Template: projects/index

Template: _includes/.project_screenshots

Works great. I’m new to EE so I still have to wrap my head around the whole embed thing. Thanks for your replies.