Addon: Album View
 

Album View is a new front end to your browse pages. The addon will display a single thumbnail from each of your categories, along with the name and number of photos, which will link to the browse pages. Options include using either the most recent photo in the category or a random image from the category. The addon also works with and without the paged archive addon. Package includes a sample css file for getting the page to display properly.

See A Demo

Instructions

1. Add album_view.php to your addons directory and turn it on
2. Add some css to display the thumbnails properly. I've included the css I'm using as a sample in the package.
3. Add one of the Album View tags to one of your templates. I would suggest making a new template page for this tag - for instance I put the tag on album_template.html. Tags to use:

<ALBUMVIEW> - Shows newest photo for each category.
<ALBUMVIEWPAGED> - Same as above but for use with Paged Archive Addon.
<ALBUMVIEWRAND> - Shows random photo for each category.
<ALBUMVIEWPAGEDRAND> - Same as abover but for use with Paged Archive Addon.

You can download it from here:
http://www.pixelpost.org/extend/addons/album-view/

Ooops! Thanks Jay!

Brilliant! One thing: Would you mind showing the actual code that you use to set this up in the album_template.html page?

This is seriously one of the most useful addons I've seen here at Pixelpost, excellent work!

The album view is great, but as with the geos category addon I have a request...

example:
you select a category and see alle the images in that category. When you then select an image to view, you cannot from that image go back and forward in the category selected... (you have to go back to the cat listing and select another image from that cat)

Is this possible to do with this addon?

It would be nice if this album view addon could be integrated with a slideshow. Something like when you select an album a slideshow starts automaticly, is this possible?

Is there any problem for the version 1.1 file? No album_view.php can be found.

Hmm that's rather odd. I've updated the download file so it should work now.

I have used the new file but how can I show "all"? Only albums shown but no album for all.

Here's what I have on my album_template.html page...

<div style="width:720px; margin:20px auto; clear:both;">
<ALBUMVIEWPAGEDRAND>
</div>

<style>
.albumWrapper {

height:120px;
text-align:center;
float:left;
margin:5px;
}
.albumWrapper2 {
margin:3px;
width:83px;
}
.albumWrapper a:link, .albumWrapper a:visited {
border:1px solid #666;
display:block;
}
.albumWrapper img {
border:3px solid #FFF;
}
.albumTitle {
font-size:80%;
padding:2px 0;
}
.albumTitle a:link, .albumTitle a:visited {
border:none;
}
</style>