Current photo 'next' link to fist image..?

[Finner]

Does anybody know if it is at all possible to have the 'next' link on the current photo link to the first images so you are essentially going around in a circle when viewing the images?
Can just be confusing to some when they click 'next' and nothing happens...

:D

[Connie]

correct me, if I am wrong, but:

when there is no next image, the next-link will not be displayed

[Finner]

Depends how you link to the next images - I'd like people to be able to go round in a circle though...
Is to be used for my folio - http://digerati.farfromreal.com/folio/ - so there sort of is not start nor finish to the images I'm displaying..

[Connie]

Finner,

people are all so uncreative with the language-file, but there is big potential there as well, without any hacks!

why not try to do something with the language-file?
It sits in the folder /lang

if you use english language, make a backup of lang-english.php and then start to experiment with the following entries there:

$lang_no_previous = "No Previous Image";
$lang_no_next = "No Next Image";

try to integrate for example the following code there:

$lang_no_previous = "<a href='index.php?showimage=1'>startover</a>";

for sure you must enter the number of the very first image in your PP

be aware to use apostrophes instead of "

this is just an idea, but it could work, I myself did not try it

[Finner]

Hrmm.. just tested that idea, tis a good one, but this obviously becomes an issue of how to call the links...

At the moment i'm using
<a href="index.php?showimage=<IMAGE_NEXT_ID>">next</a>
Obviously this doesn't work so well when you get to either end as it's not clear that there isn't anywhere to go.. hence my problem.

If I use <IMAGE_PREVIOUS_TITLE> to make use of $lang_no_next, then when there is an image, it displays its full title and I only ever want it to say "prev || next"

If I use <IMAGE_NEXT_TITLE> I can set 'prev' and 'next', but it doesn't display anything when it gets to either end..

I could be mistaken in any of that as i'm no PP expert, but that's what happened when playing with the lang file..

[Connie]

so maybe my idea will not work so well, as I told you, I did not try it

sorry...

[Finner]

Don't be sorry! Is a good idea - but perhaps needs to be tweaked a bit.. but there's also a good chance I'm missing something too *grin*

[Finner]

Just thought I'd let you know that after some fiddling, I've managed to find a way to do this..
I ended up editing the index.php file, and with using <image_next_link> which by default says "next" or is blank if there is no next, I added $lang_no_next where the value was previously left blank in the index.php file. I guess you could edit any of them, but I felt this was the best to use. . .
From there you can just modify the lang file to say whatever you want.. :D

[Connie]

that is a good hint and suggestion!

But please keep your index.php when you update PP your modification will be overwritten