no, it is not possible right now. only comment an image has is its own filename as a caption/title.

yes, there are projects for implementing external libraries, and perhaps image description. i just have to 1) find the time, and 2) figure out how to do it (in sense of how it will appear, where, how to provide it etc.)

also to be considered is that i don't want to add complexity to the application, so the implementation has to be simple as it all is right now.

any ideas are welcome.

sure that would help.

but then the're are collaterals: if i put the text under the image, then the lightbox has to scroll, and that will bring code issues.

also, and what worries me more: where to store the comments? in a separate file for each image? in a file inside the folder? and: how to relate each comment to the picture? this is all easy once you hook up a database, but with flat files it can be annoying... once you have 1000 pictures, it won't be easy to modify one comment, and comments for a photo could be buried in a 160Kb text file.

as i told you, there are implications i have to consider.

ok, two things:

1. how would i know which titles you don't want to display?

2. have you tried naming the image with just a two-digit number?

that could be too complicated for most of the users (some don't even know what a regular expression is), mostly compared to the alternatives.

however, it is easily hackable if you know your PHP:

1. download the latest release (v09a37)
2. open

/libraries/ajax.gateway.php

3. on line

153

change:
$caption = $filename;to
$caption = ((strpos("img_")==-1)?"":$filename);
and substitute "img_" for the string you are looking for inside image names.

that might do it for now (have not tested it yet, though, let me know).

that's nice jimw.

if you want, email me the file and instructions to minishowcase at frwrd, and i'll see if it might be added as a plug-in module

Hey I'd like to hear if you guys accomplished this at all...

I'm not well versed at php but I learn as I go... I wanted to make the captions come from an xml file since xml files are rather simple. Here's my suggestion, my code, and my dilemma:

in the

/libraries/ajax.gateway.php

file I made some modifications. I wanted to take the var

$filename

and check that against an xml file for the same value (ie: img_32.jpg). A tag in the xml, look below for example, lists the filename and a caption. If the filename tag matches the $filename, then take the value of the caption tag and store it into a new var

$title

. If the

$filename

doesn't find an exact match, then return with a

$title='no title'

; Now of course this has to loop for each node in the xml (and this is where my problem is), My only problem right now is with the conditional statement inside the for loop. I have it set at a value of 2 because in the xml, there are two entries. However, when the page loads it loads the value of the second entry. If I change the value to 1, then it loads the first entry.
Thanks.


foreach ($thumbs as $key => $filename) {
$img = $filename;
/*//added code to replace img filename with a caption loaded from xml*/
include 'example.php';
$xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xmlstr);

for ($i = 0; $i < 2; $i = $i) {
if ((string) $xml->image[$i]->filename == $filename) {
foreach ($xml->image[$i]->title as $title) {
}
} else {
$title = 'no title';
}
}
$caption = $title;
/*//end of added code*/

/* Victor: there is more code after this, not shown here for space reasons */


the xml looks like this:

<images>
<image>
<filename>img_01.jpg</filename>
<title type="caption">caption for image 1</title>
</image>
<image>
<filename>img_02.jpg</filename>
<title type="caption">caption for image 2</title>
</image>
</images>


you could also try .CSV

image_filename, image_caption(instead of the useless IMG_1234), image description

and make your script read the CSV file
if CSV not found then show the gallery as is now.