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Hello All,

Ok, so I am building a website that has a gallery page. I want the gallery images to be links to an individual page which would have more information on the gallery item. Each of these individual pages has the same template I just need to figure out a way that when the client enters the details for the gallery item the link between that individual page and the gallery will be automatically generated.

Any thoughts?

Hi Andy

Could you give us an example of the extra information you plan on displaying for each gallery item?

One option is to create two Channels, one for the Gallery Items and another for each Gallery and use relationships. i.e. a Related Gallery field within the Gallery Item entry.

The main drawback is that an item will only be allowed to relate to one Gallery (unless you use multiple Relationship Fields within the Gallery Item entry)

See: http://ellislab.com/expressionengine/user-guide/modules/channel/relationships.html for more info

Another method which I’ve used makes use of an add-on called Matrix by Pixel and Tonic: http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix

Using a Matrix Field you can allow more than one image, image caption, image title etc per Entry.

(http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix/docs/image-galleries)

Hope it helps

Matt

Thanks Matt,

I plan on using the Matrix plugin to structure the content on both the gallery page and the item pages.

What I can’t figure out at the moment is how to make a new URL page be generated as a result of adding a new gallery image.

Each gallery image needs to have a link to another individual page, which displays a larger picture and some info about the picture.

Hope that makes sense…

OK, I see

Let’s say your Template that will eventually display the detail is called ‘item’ and is in the gallery Template Group i.e.
domain.com/gallery/item/

The next segment of the URL will be the url_title of the gallery entry e.g. pop-art
domain.com/gallery/item/pop-art

Now what you have to define is the Row from the Matrix field which will need to be displayed e.g. row 2
domain.com/gallery/item/pop-art/2

So the code which generates the link above might look like: (within the usual EE Entries tag)

{gallery}
   <a href="http://{path=gallery/item/{url_title}/{row_id}}">_     {image_title}_   </a>
{/gallery}

Have a look at the Docs for Matrix. There’s a {row_id} tag which you can use in a link: http://pixelandtonic.com/matrix/docs/image-galleries

Now, in the template…

In the template “item”, the row_id can also be used as a parameter in the field’s tag-pair e.g. (assuming your matrix field short name is ‘gallery’)

{exp:channel:entries channel="photo_gallery"}
    {title}
    {gallery row_id="last_segment"}
     <img>
    {/gallery}
{/exp:channel:entries}

Hello andy_slick,

It looks like Matt:P is doing an excellent job providing you with some answers.

Is there anything else you need, and questions that I can answer?

Cheers,

Cheers for that Matt.

Just what I needed to know about the path URL works perfect.

Shane, any thoughts where I can learn about using categories to determine where entries are visible?

Cheers,

Andy

Hi Andy,

Interestingly just a couple of days ago Mike Boyink posted a new tutorial on categories

Does that help or do you need something else?

Sean