[pmwiki-users] DB lookup of picture path

[Henrik Bechmann]

Thanks Patrick,

I'm thinking

GalleryImage:albumname/picturename.jpg

I presume I could use Attach: as a template?

- Henrik

Henrik Bechmann
www.osscommons.ca
www.bechmannsoftware.com
Webmaster, www.dufferinpark.ca



Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:39:09PM -0500, Henrik Bechmann wrote:
>   
>> I wondered if there was some way to use the farmmap/textmap feature, so 
>> that the user could do something like
>>
>> GalleryImage:?albumname&picturename.jpg
>>
>> Where GalleryImage: would be mapped to
>>
>> getpicturepath.php?album=albumname&picture=picturename.jpg
>>
>> or some such.
>>     
>
> At one time I brainstormed about perhaps using commas (or maybe 
> semicolons or quotes) for this -- i.e., one could define the 
> InterMap link as
>
>     getpicturepath.php?album=$1&picture=$2
>
> and then in markup one could write:
>
>     GalleryImage:albumname,picturename.jpg
>
> to get the results.  But it was just an odd thought at the time,
> I figured it was too much of a "gratuitous feature" to be included
> in the core.
>
> One could always define "GalleryImage:" as a custom markup and
> handle it that way.  :-)
>
> Pm
>
>
>