RELEASED: Content Image Module

trumpcar · 22.04.2005, 18:06

Dear Mambers,

I've created a Content Image Module for Mambo 4.5.1+. The purpose of this module is to allow greater flexibility with content-related and section-related images within your templates. It allows you to display your content or section related images anywhere you can display a module. You can see the module in action on any of the secondary pages of our recently-completed Mambo site.

Some initial features:

Randomly displays an image for content items with multiple images
If a content item doesn't have a specific image, display a section image
Toggle the ability to use a default image if neither a content or section image exists
Configurable from within the mambo admin interface

I would love to hear some constructive feedback on this module so I may continue to improve it for the community. This is the first project I have released back into the community.

I have created a MamboForge project page here: http://mamboforge.net/projects/modcontentimage/

Thanks for being such a great community!

Stefan71a · 29.04.2005, 02:50

I become intrested when I saw the functionality you have added for this module and saw the possibuility I would like to try to see if I could use it to control what header picuture I'm showing depending of what section/category/article I'm curerntly visits and it works SUPER!!!

What I did was to replace the current image with a load module, for my template I chosed "<?php mosLoadModules ( 'header' ); ?>". Then I configured the content image module to be in the header position.

Since I'm not using mospicture to add pictures in my articles, instead using the insert picture in the WYSIWYG editor I could suddenly use the mospicuture function in articles to decide what image I would like to present in the module. I have stored all header images in the images/storis directory since this is the only directory I can reach from evry place there I I have a chose picture fuctionality - including sections, category, article and staticatricles.

Also with the funtionality you have built in to be able to show a defalt picture I find very good since if I have not chosed any picture in any level of the sturture the default picture are shown.

I discoverd one problem and that was that if I had a side there I listed a section like news or FAQ I suddenly had two pictures... one on the correct place but also the same picture but below the section title in the midle of the screen. I found out that if I removed the following line

<img src="<?php echo $link;?>" align="<?php echo $title->image_position;?>" hspace="6" alt="<?php echo $title->image;?>" />

in the file "content.html" in the "components/com_content" everything worked as I wanted, I'm not shore if that row have any other functionality that I'll miss - but sofare I have not found anything I've missed.

So I'm greatfull for your work with this module that suddenly opened up a new possibuilities.

//Stefan

trumpcar · 24.05.2005, 17:20

Dear Stefan71a,

I am very happy to hear that the module has been useful to you! If you happen to make improvements to the module code, please let me know and I'll incorporate them into the main code.

I am working on releasing my second module, which is an improvement upon "related items", in the near future.

Best!