Subcategory to Slideshow

[cowkingcoder]

Hello,

First, let me say that Phoca Gallery is a great extension. My thanks to the author for providing this free of charge!

I am wondering if it is possible to configure the gallery to do the following:

- From the Category View, display all subcategories with image thumbnail displaying one of the images in the sub category (have this).
- When user clicks the subcategory, instead of showing another category view, it immediately starts a shadowbox slideshow of the images in the subcategory.
- Prefer to remain in the original Category View, and not move into the subcategory view at all.

I am trying to reduce the number of clicks a person has to do before getting to the images.

Also, I would like to be able to add the (sub)category description next to subcategories in the category view. Is it possible?

Thank you for your time. I am not shy about modifying code and css... So I can modify things if needed.

CowkingCoder

[Jan]

Hi, for now there is no such feature, so yes this must be customized

There can be problem with displaying slideshow directly by clicking the category, as the images needs to be loaded on the site (in case of some javascript libraries), so there needs to be loaded this code (javascript data prepared for slideshow) before image thumbnail displayin (no experiences there as I didn't do such modifications )

Description - you can display the description of images below the thumbnails, see:
https://www.phoca.cz/templatedemo/phoca- ... escription

so the same behaviour should be added for categories (but all this needs to be done in php )

Jan

[cowkingcoder]

Thanks Jan!

I suspected as much. Perhaps if I find myself with the time I will modify the php and try to add the features I want. Lately, I've been pretty busy though. If I do add any features, I'll post it here so you can add the code to phoca gallery at your discretion.

Again, thank you for Phoca Gallery, it is a fantastic component. Keep up the good work Jan!

CowkingCoder

[Jan]

Ok