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have there been any improvements to the gallery block for random pictures? I have the the code for the block that is supposed to not show the hidden pic, yet it still does. Also it comes up with an error sometimes... if I click on where the pic is supposed to be it brings up a page that says ERROR: requested index [] out of bounds [2] Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /httpdocs/gallery/classes/Album.php on line 660 Basiclly it is leaving off part of the url when it generates the link and pic (I think) When I do get the error (no pic pulls up) the url looks something like this http://somedomain.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album51&id= When it does work, the link looks something like this http://somedomain.com/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=album51&id=aak So I think it is leaving off after the id= If anyone has it working could you please post your code...???

no one? I really need the hidden pic to not show... if you have that working that would be great.... plz plz plz post the code

In the lib-custom.php, function phpblock_gallery() You just need to add the names of the directories (albums) that you want to exclude the 'if stmnt ' check inside the while loop. while (($f = @readdir($fd)) == TRUE) { if (is_dir($path_gallery_albums . $f) && $f <> 'Hobbies' && $f <> 'music' && $f <> '.' && $f <> '..' && $f <> 'CVS' && ($f <> '.users')) { clearstatcache(); $albums[$index] = $f; $index++; } } In this example above, I added two albums to exclude To skip empty albums, modify the function phpblock_random_files($g) - set check for index > 2 // Randomly select one of the images if index counter > 2 // Anthing less is an empty album or only the highlight image // If the album is completely empty, setting the index to 1 will show a empty image but no errors if ($index > 2) { mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000); Give that a try. efarmboy

this is what I have is this not right? function phpblock_random_files($g) { // Open directory $fd = opendir($g); $pics = array(); $index = 1; // Loop through directory inserting all thumbnails into an array. Do not add // .gif images because netpbm can't convert them. while (($f = @readdir($fd)) == TRUE) { if ($f <> '.' && $f <> '..' && $f <> 'CVS' && strpos($f,'thumb') && !strpos(strtolower($f),'.gif')) { clearstatcache(); $pics[$index] = $f; $index++; } } closedir($fd); if ($index > 2) { mt_srand((double)microtime()*1000000); $indexr = (mt_rand(1, count($pics))); } else { $indexr = 1; } // Return image name returnLò¬8pics[$indexr]; }

Well that depends - are you getting what you want? You've made a number of changes to the if stmt - why not add some debugging to see what its doing?

no it is not doing what I want it to do... I am still getting errors... I guess because of empty albums? I am no programer so how do I debug? I have not edited the code, that was just a copy and paste could you post your code?

You will find my modified gallery block here.

You will need to remove (or add any of your albums to exclude) the names of the albums that I have included - leaving it will not hurt if they don't exist I guess.

Cheers,
Blaine