Album Image Uploads

Upload Types

Album-based content using a gallery image as a thumbnail

• The thumbnail is a pointer to one of the album image records.

Album-based content with thumbnail record independent of the gallery images

• The thumbnail image_link record has the same type_id as the parent content record.
• The gallery images have a different type_id value from the thumbnail image image_link record.

PHP Classes

• Shared PHP classes
• [COMMON_LIB]_classes/images/image_upload_class.php (extends image_link_class)

PHP Template Includes

• [COMMON_TEMPLATE_DIR]forms/images/thumbnail_overlay_buttons.php
  Include this once somewhere on the page containing the image upload controls.
• For album-based uploads (both with linked and independent thumbnails)

include (COMMON_TEMPLATE_DIR."forms/images/select_thumbnail_link_container.php");

• For images within gallery listings:
  • IMG class="gallery-edit"
  • IMG attributes data-id and data-tid
  • $('.gallery-edit') handler is set in LITTLED.Gallery.bindImageOverlayHandlers()
  • single click: display edit and delete buttons overlaid on the image
  • double click: display the full-sized version of the image in a lightbox

JavaScript Libraries

• [COMMON_LIB]scripts/littled/littled.js
• [COMMON_LIB]scripts/littled/listings.js
• [COMMON_LIB]scripts/littled/gallery.js

AJAX Handler Scripts

• [ADMIN_ROOT]_ajax/images/edit_image.php
  Designed to handle uploading and editing images from within image and album listings.
• [ADMIN_ROOT]_ajax/images/upload_image.php
  Designed to handler uploading a single image within the parent article edit form.

MySQL Tables

• image_link
• images
• site_section
• section_properties

See Also

• Radomizing Image Names