Probably a Matthew question, but is there any way to setup a permalink to an album set, not just to an album? I had to code an html workaround as I couldn’t find it, but creating a “bogus” album with no photos and html in the page content simulating an album set gallery links page. Permalink is:
Which is the html table of thumbnails and links. Unfortunately, the album set shows up in the breadcrumbs (which I would like to keep so that people can navigate to my main page), which looks different than my page content html. Doesn’t suck, but it is a bit of a pain to maintain as I have to rework the html table every time I need to add a new album.
I figured that out. So much great stuff in Backlight 3, everybody want’s more, right?
So this may be a dumb question, but in the php plugins, album_top exit, is it possible to reference and load the content of the albumset that the album is part of. I realize than in the php exits, you cannot force a page reload (i.e., redirecting from the album content page to it’s parent albumset), but if there was a way to load the albumset grid, it would have the net effect (at least to the viewer of the site) of a permalink. I.e., I put a permalink on an empty album with a tag to tell me to escape it to the the parent album set.
May we end up being a recursive call or endless loop, and I’m not sure I’m even clear on what I’m asking, but then, I’m old enough to not worry about looking or sounding dumb!
Thanks!
album_top
- if return=false, the album content is skipped
- called immediately within the media area
- encompasses the album grid / slideshow; can be used to replace it
- encompasses the gallery grid / slideshow; can be used to replace it
I don’t know how many album-set redirects you need. But if it is just a few, wouldn’t it be easier to have a php or html file in the top-level directory, or in a dedicated redirect directory, from where you load the target album-set?
Yes, guess that would do it. I wasn’t sure if that would muck with Backlight in any way. I’m leery of messing in the affairs of dragons for I am crunchy and taste good with ketchup…
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; URL=https://www.google.com/" />
</head>
<body>
<p>If you are not redirected in five seconds, <a href="https://www.google.com/">click here</a>.</p>
</body>
I’ve never been a fan of HTML redirects. They’re just kludgy. What I ended up doing was replacing Backlight’s index.php with the php redirect in the directory of the “bogus” album I originally described and set the feature, “Hide from Album Set.” This works and as long as I don’t muck with the album, should be just fine, right?
Thanks for the heads up. I should probably know that but the explicit reminder is helpful. I’ll put a copy of the the file in a “safe place.” Maybe the next module will include permalink support for album sets…
One other thing. On my web root .htaccess file, I have the following Rewrite statements. On ANY other well run Apache service, this would be identical to a permalink or ./darkhousesatlanta to the index.php file in the album set that I put the header redirect into. Only, on Godaddy it doesn’t do that, because, well, it’s Godaddy.
