Ok. So I get how to add captions to individual files using the labels.txt file in the folder with the images but what I want to do is have a somewhat longer description under a Title of the image. I tried using a line break in the text file by outting in <br> and then the text I want for the next few lines and it works on the pop up slideshow part using slimbox but the thumbnail shows the <br> in the actual text. Is there a work around for this?

An example of the code in the text file is:

The output in the pop up gives the linebreak correctly but on the thumbnail image just displays everything as text.

Let me know if what I want to do with this tool is possible.

Thanks --- Alex

Thanks --- Alex

Hi Alex

Did you ever get this sorted?  I've spent the last four hours or so trying to find a way round this problem.....it's now nearly 1am and my brain is fried!

Any assistance appreciated

Kevin
Living in cold, dark Inverness - and dreaming about sleep!

I never got an answer on this so I simply didn't use the captions on the thumbnails so the only thing that shows on the thumbs itself is the image.

Regards --- Alex

Aye - I did the same thing but unfortunately the person I'm doing the website for has asked specifically to have captions\titles on the thumbnail.  It's a website for Aberdeen Angus bulls and it's important to show the names of the Parents against each bull.
I thought it was so cool that I could just use <br> to break up the lines...until I saw the thumbnail caption\title showed the <br>!!

Maybe one of the support guys can give some assistance...


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Hopefully there's a simple solution to this problem!

Cheers

Kevin

Hi there!

I hope that the next version will have support for multiline captions.

For now you can try that !

Thank you!

Hi George

Thanks for your assistance.

I changed the settings in plugin_jw_sigpro.php (I'm assuming that's the file when you mentioned "the mambot file") but the thumbnail is still showing the <br> in the caption.

I cleared the cache incase that helped but it didn't make any difference.

I don't even know where to begin with php but do the following lines need to be amended in some way?

// if labels do exist
if ($labels[md5($mosConfig_absolute_path.$rootfolder.$_images_dir_.'/'.$images[$a])]!="") {

and

$final_caption = htmlentities($labels[md5($mosConfig_absolute_path.$rootfolder.$_images_dir_.'/'.$images[$a])],ENT_QUOTES);

???

Thanks again George

Kevin

Hi there again!

The <br> tag it isn't displayed in the label
cause the use of the function htmlentities, in the php code, in sig pro file.

I just say with my previous post that need simple to use the <br> tag
and remove the htmlentities function from the code!

Just open the file, find the first block of code and replace it with the second!
If i remember right, you will find the code in the lines 278-280!

Check it out and come back to tell me the results!
If after that doesn't work, just PM me some s.administrator account!

Thank you!

Hi

I already made the changes to the php file as instructed but I'm still getting the BR html code showing up in the thumbnail caption.  You're right that the code is on 278 to 280...mine reads as follows:-

// if labels do exist
if ($labels[md5($mosConfig_absolute_path.$rootfolder.$_images_dir_.'/'.$images[$a])]!="") {
  $html .= '<b>'.$labels[md5($mosConfig_absolute_path.$rootfolder.$_images_dir_.'/'.$images[$a])].'</b>';
}

which is what I was advised to change the original code to.  I haven't made any other changes.

It's not a problem to send you an Admin logon for the website (Gallery is here 82.110.105.91/findhorn-angus.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=44&Itemid=59) but I'd like to keep it in the forums so that others (like Alex who started this question!) can see what needs to be done to resolve the problem.

Cheers for the continued support

Kevin

Hi my friend!

OK, send me a PM with a s.admin account
I'll install also the joomlaxlorer component to modify my files

Before all that please
Rename the images with no spaces!
Spaces in the name of a file could be create various problem!
use the character "_" for the space
and change after that the names also to labels.txt

Thank you!  :)

OK!

If someone want to use a hack for multilines labels
can do that.

1st at the labels.txt, use the tag <br> to "break" the lines
2nd at the sig pro mambot file
change the code ( 305 line )

to

Thank you!

Thanks very much for your support George - excellent service!!

;D

Cheers

Kevin

Happy to help!  :)

hello,
is there any way to show only the first line in the thumb?
thank you

If you patch the file as above, you should have:

$final_caption = $labels[md5($mosConfig_absolute_path.$rootfolder.$_images_dir_.'/'.$images[$a])];

Here $final_caption probably contains something like "some text on first line <br> and another line". Then you could probably just split the line and keep as many lines as you would like:

// split final caption on each occurence of <br>, keep 1 line
$final_caption = split('<br>', $final_caption, 1)

NB: Totally untested code. Try it and see if it works.

hi danglung,

it almost works  :)
when oppening the image, I can show the lines I want,
but in the thumb instead of the text before <br>, it shows the word Array

any idea?

thank you very much for your help

Dear George

worked like a charm when I worked out the difference between

[color=red/]plugins/content/jwsigpro/sigpro_engine.php      - wrong one[/color]

and the one I needed to change

/plugins/content/jwsigpro.php

This is for Joomla 1.5 users!

So thank you very muchly

J

Hi George and other experts

I have implemented the code change to enable the <br> to be used in the labels.txt file.

I now have the problem that some labels are in the css font specified (Arial) and some have changed to Times New Roman.

Checked out the labels.txt, some have spaces around the <br> and some not, but it does not correlate to the problem (I have found correct font displayed with spaces around the <br> and removing the spaces does not change the font back to the correct one)

So is it obvious to anyone what altered thing could change this?

Could it be a UTF-8 issue?

Any help will be much appreciated.

J