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I’m building a photo gallery where the index page is an archive of all entries, shown as thumbnails. Clicking on a thumbnail takes you to a single-entry page which shows the photo.

Say there are 10 photos total, and you click on the third one—I would like the single-entry page to display “3 of 10,” with links to the next and previous entries.

Next/previous pages are no problem, the total entry count I figure I can do with a query call or a separate exp:channel call, but the entry’s order I can’t figure out. The closest thing I can think of would be to loop through each entry, add to a counter, stop when I match the entry ID, display the counter. But it seems like a lot of overhead.

Any ideas?

You could certainly do it with a custom query, which is not my area of expertise, but there is an add-on that would certainly shortcut that for you.  Have a look at Entries Number on devot-ee.com.

Thanks John. I’m holding out for an in-the-box solution, though, plus this plugin looks like it’d have more overhead than a loop through the channel.

Query is probably slightly lower overhead, but a loop through the channel ought to work. The other thing you could do is simply post the entry’s count I to the URL and the use that segment in the single entry view as your individual count number.  But a loop through the entries is probably cleaner. If you have most other parameters that you’re not using disabled, it should stay pretty efficient. Good luck.

rmedek did you come up with a solution for this one? I have the same need…

Well, it’s not the most elegant solution, but it’s getting the job done for the moment. In my single-entry page, inside the channel:entries tag, I have this code:

    <span class="page-count">{embed="includes/pagination" this_channel="{this_channel}" entry_id="{entry_id}"}</span>
    {exp:channel:next_entry channel="{this_channel}"}<a href="http://{id_path=gallery/comments}class=prev">« newer</a>{/exp:channel:next_entry}
    {exp:channel:prev_entry channel="{this_channel}"}<a href="http://{id_path=gallery/comments}class=next">older »</a>{/exp:channel:prev_entry}

Then, in the includes/pagination template, I have:

<?php $count = 1; ?>

{exp:channel:entries channel="{embed:this_channel}" disable="categories|member_data|trackbacks|pagination" limit="1000" orderby="date" sort="desc" dynamic="no"}
    {if {entry_id} == embed:entry_id}
        <?php echo $count; ?> of {total_results}
    {if:else}
        <?php $count++; ?>
    {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}

…PHP is enabled in includes/pagination. Basically it puts the pagination loop in an include; the loop orders all of the entries by date and starts counting. When it hits {embed:entry_id} (the current entry), it stops and shows the count. Hope that helps…

Thanks rmedek. I’ve actually just worked around it myself using the excellent String plugin to set some variables and then recall them inside the main loop. It still requires two channel:entries loops, but only one template, no embeds or template php. (http://www.emarketsouth.com/add-ons/string-plugin/). You could also do this with LG Replace, or MX Jumper.

{exp:string:set name="subNav"}
    {exp:weblog:prev_entry weblog="the_weblog"}<li id="nav-prev"><a href="http://{path=capabilities}">{title}</a></li>{/exp:weblog:prev_entry}
    {exp:weblog:next_entry weblog="the_weblog"}<li id="nav-next"><a href="http://{path=capabilities}">{title}</a></li>{/exp:weblog:next_entry}
{/exp:string:set}

{exp:weblog:entries dynamic="off" weblog="the_weblog" disable="custom_fields|categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
    {exp:string:set name="the_total"}{total_results}{/exp:string:set}            
    {exp:string:set name="index_of_{entry_id}"}{count}{/exp:string:set}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

{exp:weblog:entries limit="1" weblog="the_weblog" disable="categories|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"}
     <h5>{exp:string name="index_of_{entry_id}"} of {exp:string name="the_total"}</h5>
<p>     <ul><br />
    {exp:string name="subNav"}<br />
     </ul><br />
{/exp:weblog:entries}