Topic: New Fesature: Local Templates

[Mike Bobbitt]

Just added: local templates

What does this mean? Well, just like local configs, you ca now easily set each album to use it's own template, just by dropping the template files into that directory. I hope to have some examples of that soon.

A good example of this is http://army.ca/cgi-bin/album.pl, where I have dropped in a new album_object.tml template file to have thumbnails and descriptions across from each other.

Hopefully this will increase the power of templates, and we'll see some new examples out there.

Cheers

[Dino]

I'm really sad you didn't remember mine... :'(

And after all these years...

Here's my personal album:
http://dinofilias.com/cgi-bin/album/album.pl?album=11dino

Here's my work-related album:
http://dinofilias.com/cgi-bin/album/album.pl?album=11sve

I've been using different templates for over a year...

Only problem I see is that when you click on a picture in the SVE album, it uses the default template.

[Mike Bobbitt]

Heheh, I remembered, but at the time, my album was the only one I *knew* was using local templates. (As opposed to a local config that points to new templates).

And thanks for catching the photo page problem. I've fixed that as well as a file include problem I found while I was looking.

Cheers

[Scouter]

 :'( I'm missing something, can you tell me what the differences are in the templates?

[Mike Bobbitt]

The templates are the same, but now you can drop an edited template directly into an album, and it'll be used for that album.

So if you have a new template that has a banner ad at the top and photo descriptions above each thumbnail, that'll be used for an album you place the .tml files in.

Hope that makes sense... If I *ever* get the time, I want to work on an alternate template set...