How to edit ALT tags for thumbnails?

[Threnody]

Good morning everyone!

I was wondering where one might edit the ALT tags for the thumbnail images that are automatically generated.  I was able to edit the tags for the previous and next thumbnail images displayed on the Details page.  However, I have not been able to figure out how to edit the tags for the thumbnails displayed in the Random Image and Thumbnail Bit pages, which call the images with the following bit of code:  {thumbnail}.

I have searched through the forums and google for the answer to but to no avail, and any help would be appreciated.  Thanks in advance!

namaste,
Jennifer

[IcEcReaM]

that you have to do in the includes/functions.php

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$thumb = "<img src=\"".$file_src."\" border=\"".$config['image_border']."\"".$width_height." alt=\"".$image_name."\" />";
When you search for this line, there is the alt tag.

[Threnody]

Thank you so much for the quick response!

I edited the ALT tag, saved the file and uploaded it to my server.  When I reloaded the index page for the gallery in my browser the ALT tag doesn't display quite properly.   

Here's what I have entered:

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$thumb = "<img src=\"".$file_src."\" border=\"".$config['image_border']."\"".$width_height." alt=\"".$image_name." submitted by ".$user_name." on ".$image_date."\." />";
Here is what the ALT tag displays:

Bardic Champion submitted by  on  .

And Here is what I want the ALT tag to display

Bardic Competition submitted by Sung Sai-êrh on 16.02.2006 18:53.

Any suggestions or advice on what I might be doing wrong?

namaste,
Jennifer

[TheOracle]

May I ask where the $image_date comes from ? Perhaps you coded it by yourself and made a mistake. To make sure, would it be possible to post that string definition here (as well as the $user_name) ?

[Threnody]

TheOracle,

No custom scripting. 

I simply used the $image_date and $user_name from the details page under my templates and modified it for the includes/functions.php.

Here's the code from that page:

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<img src="{next_thumb_file}" border="1" vspace="6" hspace="10" alt="{image_name} submitted by {user_name} on {image_date}." title="{image_name} submitted by {user_name} on {image_date}." />
namaste,
Jennifer

[TheOracle]

In that case, other opinions might be posted, but I do not believe the $user_name and the $image_date also applys on that function. However, there's another way to do it. Let me a moment (also if no one else posts an alternative solution before I do).

[Threnody]

Thanks, I'll see if I can come up with something as well! 

namaste,
Jennifer

[TheOracle]

Solution found.

In your includes/functions.php file,

find :

$file_src = get_file_path($thumb_file_name, "thumb", $cat_id, 0, 1);

add above :

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$image_info_submission = $lang['user_name_image_submission']. $image_row['user_name']. REPLACE_EMPTY. $lang['image_date_submission']. $image_row['image_date'];


Then, on the same paragraph,

find :

$thumb = "<img src=\"".$file_src."\" border=\"".$config['image_border']."\"".$width_height." alt=\"".$image_name."\" />";

replace with :

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$thumb = "<img src=\"".$file_src."\" border=\"".$config['image_border']."\"".$width_height." alt=\"".$image_info_submission."\" />";


Then, in your lang/english/main.php file,

add the following above the '?>' tag :

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//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Image submission by users & date ----------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$lang['user_name_image_submission'] = "(submitted by:";
$lang['image_date_submission'] = "on: )";


Then, refresh your site. These should do it.

Then, back in your includes/functions.php file (updated),

find :

global $site_sess, $config;

replace with :

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global $site_sess, $config, $image_row, $lang;



[Threnody]

So the code in fuction.php should look like:

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    else {
      $image_info_submission = $lang['user_name_image_submission']. $image_row['user_name']. REPLACE_EMPTY.

$lang['image_date_submission']. $image_row['image_date'];
      $file_src = get_file_path($thumb_file_name, "thumb", $cat_id, 0, 1);
      $image_info = @getimagesize($file_src);
      $width_height = (!empty($image_info[3])) ? " ".$image_info[3] : "";
      $thumb = "<img src=\"".$file_src."\" border=\"".$config['image_border']."\"".$width_height."

alt=\"".$image_info_submission."\" />";

And the code in main.php should look like:

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//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Admin Links -------------------------------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$lang['edit'] = "[Edit]";
$lang['delete'] = "[Delete]";

//-----------------------------------------------------
//--- Image submission by users & date ----------------
//-----------------------------------------------------
$lang['user_name_image_submission'] = "(submitted by:";
$lang['image_date_submission'] = "on: )";
?>
Right?

namaste,
Jennifer

RE: UPDATED: Yi yi yi yi yi!  That did it! Thank you so much!!!

[TheOracle]

RE: UPDATED: Yi yi yi yi yi!  That did it! Thank you so much!!!

You're also right, it looks really good like this. Thanks for posting this request.

[Threnody]

You're welcome!  But I have to give credit where credit's due - I got the idea from deviantART.   

Did the image date look a little funky in the ALT tag when you tried this out?  I'm finding that mine does. 

Thanks again!


namaste,
Jennifer

[TheOracle]

Did the image date look a little funky in the ALT tag when you tried this out?  I'm finding that mine does.

Well, it depends of your definition of funky but, now that you mention it, I did left a tighny too much of space between the text and the date.

[Threnody]

Well, it depends of your definition of funky but, now that you mention it, I did left a tighny too much of space between the text and the date.

Well, when I pull up my site in IE the date in the ALT tag looks pretty much like a jumbled bunch of numbers instead of the date.

Valor Champion submitted by Sung Sai-êrh on 1140140764.

See?  *laughs*

namaste,
Jennifer

[IcEcReaM]

Use instead of

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$image_info_submission = $lang['user_name_image_submission']. $image_row['user_name']. REPLACE_EMPTY. $lang['image_date_submission']. $image_row['image_date'];this

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$image_info_submission = $lang['user_name_image_submission']. $image_row['user_name']. REPLACE_EMPTY. $lang['image_date_submission']. format_date($config['date_format']." ".$config['time_format'],$image_row['image_date']);
the numbers you can seen are in unix timestamp format.

[V@no]

@TheOracle:
REPLACE_EMPTY should not be used in this case, because even though it represent &nbsp;, it can be altered and in this case it might bring unexpected results...