On Saturday 25 August 2007, Sameer Kumar wrote: > The recipe page describes how I can get the thumblist to start at any > image counting from the LAST image uploaded.
At the moment, this actually is not possible. :-) The script performs a case insensitive natural sort [1] on the whole current list of files (filenames), and shows them in that order (unless a "shuffle mode" is requested). > Can I get the thumblist to count from the FIRST image uploaded?? > > In other words, if I want a thumblist showing the same 5 images on the > page (the first five uploaded) no matter how many more are added, how > can I achieve that?? > > I do know that I can hard-code the image names in the thumblist > directive, but am looking for a simpler solution. I would (re)name them with some distinguished prefix/suffix and then, use the "name=" parameter, for example '_' as in _myphoto.jpg: (:thumblist limit=5 name="_*.jpg":) [2] The feature that Thumblist lacks is a sorting order on some information other than the file name. To obtain such information (i.e. picture size/timestamp or worse: exif data) would require to open/stat/getimagesize/extractEXIF of all pictures in the upload directory and would slow things a lot, this was discussed on the talk page. So, I have no plans to write such thing, unless I see both very good reasons/benefits of it, and a good idea for the implementation. The script is allready far more complex than I originally imagined... :-) Thanks, Petko -- [1] http://php.net/natcasesort [2] Note however that a prefix "_" for attached files is only allowed in recent Betas of PmWiki; with the Stable, use another prefix. _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
