content plugin from my custom component - gallery

patterncatcher · **Joined:** Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:42 pm **Posts:** 66

I am trying to call Simple Image gallery in my component,
It is a content plugin that looks for { gallery }foldername{ /gallery } in an article and put the images for the folder there.
How can I call a content plugin from my component?

g00s3m4n · **Joined:** Mon Aug 28, 2006 5:12 pm **Posts:** 22

Hello,

Have you had any success?
I am attempting the same thing and have not been able to find a solution.

Thanks,

patterncatcher · **Joined:** Tue Jan 02, 2007 2:42 pm **Posts:** 66

I created my own solution using jquery lightbox.
Download both, and call scripts from document.
You may need to use noconflict for jquery if you are also using mootools, google it.

Javascript (put in document header)

Code:

$(document).ready(function() {
$('a[@rel*=lightbox]').lightBox();
}

then in the php:

In Images/stories I created a folder called theimagefolder, inside of which are folders with name of id of database entry ($row->id) then put the code in the components .html.php file:

Code:

$dir = JPATH_SITE.'/images/stories/theimagefolder/'.$row->id; // 
   
      // open specified directory
      $dirHandle = opendir($dir);
      while ($file = readdir($dirHandle)) {
      // if not a subdirectory and if filename contains the string '.jpg' 
      if(!is_dir($file) && strpos($file, '.jpg')>0) {
         // update count and string of files to be returned
       $imgurl= $live_site."images/stories/theimagefolder/".$row->id."/".$file;
       ?>
       <a  rel="lightbox" href = "<? echo $imgurl; ?>" title="Your title" ><img src ="<? echo $imgurl; ?>" alt="Your alt"   width="100" height="70"  /></a>
       
       <?
         
       $count++;
         echo $ourlink;
         }
      } 
   closedir($dirHandle);

Hope this helps

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