[pmwiki-users] Gallery (was: Costom markup for gallery page)

[Ugo Mariani]

On Sunday 03 April 2005 17:03, you wrote:
> > > Each thumbnail is annotated with basic information about the image
> > > (configurable), but also becomes a link to a wiki page with the same
> > > name as the image file minus its extension.  Thus, an image of
> > > pmwiki-32.gif would create a page link to [[pmwiki-32]], which
> > > could hold more descriptive information about the page.
> >
> > Would this generate 200 pages for my 200 images per folder?
>
> It would generate 200 "virtual" pages -- i.e., you'd be able to browse
> to  Img001, Img002, Img003, etc., pages, but the physical page files
> would likely not be created until you edited the page and added some
> annotations of some sort to the images.

Excellent, just what I was hoping.

> > In SinglePageGallery, all thumbnails point to a single page. More
> > descriptive information or an image's caption could be passed along as
> > parameters.
>
> The hard part is knowing where to store the descriptive information.

One could write the information in the thumbnail gallery, and let it pass 
along with the image name. This would make the thumbnail page bigger, but the 
image information doesn't have to be compulsory.
I may well have 2 different galleries with the same thumbnail, but with 
different descriptions.

-Ugo