[Block] SMF Gallery Random Picture

[Rafferty]

Sorry to be a pain Thurn, yep my bad. It was over at SMF they said it was the code I'm using in the snippet, at hacks he said it was SMF and here ya say its the gallery. No wonder Im confused.

[Thurnok]

No pain whatsoever Rafferty.

Yea, it can be confusing when you are dealing with 4 different pieces to the puzzle.  SMF being the "base" piece, since it is the forum software, TP being another "rather big piece" since it is a Portal "mod" to SMF - and therefore a large integral piece to anyone's site that has SMF/TP installed, and then the Galler mod which, just like Tiny Portal, is a mod to SMF as well, though smaller in terms of a site's "perception", and finally the SMF Gallery Random Picture block code which is miniscule in comparison to any of the other three.

Going off of the errors you posted:

"8: Undefined index: smfgalleryprofile_title
File: /home/www/xxxxxxx.org/forum/Themes/default/languages/Gallery.english.php (eval?)
Line: 399"

"8: Undefined index: smfgalleryprofile_viewall
File: /home/www/xxxxxxx.org/forum/Themes/default/languages/Gallery.english.php (eval?)
Line: 410"

These are indeed errors "detected" by SMF but they point to an issue with the SMF Gallery mod (based on the variable names at issue).  Most likely they are due to a corrupt or incorrectly installed SMF Gallery mod, or a version of the mod that may have had problems or simply needs a fix.  Those particular variables (smfgalleryprofile_title and smfgalleryprofile_viewall) are not in SMF, TP, nor the SMF Gallery Random Picture block code, they only come from the SMF Gallery mod itself.

[Rafferty]

Thank you very much, your a gentleman and a scholar lol, appreciate the explanation. I'll go chasing.

[warhonowicz]

Thurnok, thanks a lot for this fab bit of code and also for pointing me in its direction ...

[cepheus]

Amazing bloc .... love it - thank you!

[allkvinde]

Wow I am impressed because even I could do this and figure out how to change the script to how I wanted it. I never thought that I would be doing that.

Thank you so much for a wonderful very easy to follow description of how to do it.

[Thurnok]

Welcome to all.

I try to make my block code as readable and easy to modify as possible since you generally have to make changes right in the code to configure things (for any block code).  So I hope its as easy for anyone else too. 

[insanemustang]

I'd like to know if the # of comments made about the photo can be added in with a link to take you to the comments of that particular picture.

Great script, thank you.

[insanemustang]

I'd like to know if the # of comments made about the photo can be added in with a link to take you to the comments of that particular picture.

Great script, thank you.

anyone?

[JPDeni]

It's very likely possible. The trouble is that, before anyone can write code that accesses the information created by any modification, the coder has to have the mod installed. There are some small things that I don't mind installing on my test site, but some are just too involved for me to do. The gallery would require not only installing the mod, but also adding images and having people comment on them.

Possibly someone who has the mod installed on their site can help you.