[Plugin: NextGEN Gallery] How to add navigation within the Album or Gallery

I am rather interested in this topic myself! I believe I read something about using custom gallery templates, somewhere, but now I cannot seem to find it again…

Go to manage gallery on your left collumn….then go to create a new page. It should auto generate a button for that gallery. Good Luck!

They aren’t talking about a button for the gallery, they’re talking about a breadcrumb navigation within the gallery so you don’t have to use the browser’s back button to get back out of the gallery.

I’m also annoyed with the lack of navigation on NextGEN. I’m looking through the PHP files in the plugin editor, but I don’t know enough about PHP to know where to even start. The only immediate solution I thought of was to put a hard-coded navigation in the page itself.

If anyone has any insight about this issue, it would be very helpful.

Thanks for explaining. That is really what I want. It seems such a basic functionality that I thought it should be turned on in some of the options, but apparently I am not the only one who didn’t find it… ??

I also thought about adding the navigation myself, but that is really a lot of work when you have a big album!… And this is such an essential feature that it is hard to make the choice for this gallery without it!

If anyone finds a solution, please post! I really like everything else about this album!…
Thanks Helena

I have a very convoluted way of doing this right now, but it works fine as long as you navigate to the gallery from an album. I’m sure there’s a much easier, elegant way of doing this. ??

Does anyone have any idea how to pull $album into the gallery template? I’m doing this right now:

$album = nggdb::find_album( get_query_var('album') );

And it only seems to grab it when you navigate from an album.

<?php
/* create album navigation */
$slug = basename(get_permalink());
 $galleries = array();
    $query = "SELECT * FROM <code>wp_ngg_gallery</code> ORDER BY <code>wp_ngg_gallery</code>.<code>gid</code> ASC";
        $result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error()); ?>

<div class="gallery_navigation">   

<?php    /* create array with results keyed by gid */
    while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
        $galleries[$row['gid']]  = stripslashes($row['title']);
    };
    /* build links for galleries */
    foreach ( $album->gallery_ids as $gals ) {
    $nav .= '<li class="menu-item"><a href="'.get_bloginfo('url').'/photo-galleries/'.$slug.'/?album='.$album->id.'&gallery='.$gals.'">'.$galleries[$gals].'</a></li>';
    };
?>

<ul class="menu">
<li class="title"><?php echo $album->name.":"; ?></li>
<?php echo $nav; ?>
</ul>

<script>
// add current location to gallery navigation

jQuery(window).load(
    function() {
        jQuery("ul.menu li.menu-item:contains('<?php echo $gallery->title; ?>')").addClass("current");
    }
);
</script>

</div> <!-- end gallery navigation -->

Thanks,

Gustavo

I’m trying to figure out this functionality as well. It seems essential.

Gustavo — what file do I put your code in and where does it go?

thanks!

Mfro – it goes in gallery.php. However, please keep in mind that the code as above doesn’t work 100% – it only works when you’re navigating to a gallery from an album, embedded in the same page.

I may have a much better solution soon – but I’m under deadline right now, so it will take me a little bit to post. ??

It’s amazing this plugin is lacking this most basic functionality. i get many complaints from customer asking how to get back to the album page once they have clicked on the gallery. It sort of just drops you on the gallery page with no way to get back without hitting the browser back button. Must be fixed.

breadcrumb needed indeed

I am going to post my solution, temporary but does the job.

1/ Select the gallery id from the url

$thecurrentalbum = $_GET["album"];
$thecurrentgallery = $_GET["gallery"];
if($thecurrentgallery!=""){
$query = "SELECT * FROM wp_ngg_gallery where gid=".$thecurrentgallery;
$result = mysql_query($query) or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)){
     $currentgallerytitle  = stripslashes($row['title']);
     $currentgallerydesc  = stripslashes($row['galdesc']);
};
}

2/ Then display the info a simple javascript history back

<?if($thecurrentgallery!=""){?>
  <div class="gallery_navigation">
  <b>Gallery Title:</b> <?php echo $currentgallerytitle;?><br />
  <b>Description:</b> <?php echo $currentgallerydesc;?><br />
  <a href="javascript:history.back();">Go back to the Album</a>
  <?php the_content(); ?>
  </div>
  <?}?>

could you elaborate where to use this code please
Much appreciated

what exactly do you need marklcm?

Create a specific template for your galleries and use the code

Thanks for quick reply. I’m new to this but was just reading up about creating templates,but am a bit in the dark. Could I paste your code into the top? body? foot? of existing gallery.php & save as ‘gallery-new version.php’ and put it in the folder nggallery