Alt tags for image gallery module

[Ed]

Im not quite sure if this is the right place to post this, but here we go..

Has anyone thought about adding a new feild for alt text for the image gallery module ? So when you upload an image you give it a name and description and also alt tags.

If your images have alt tags it helps both peeople with dissabilitys and also with ranking higher on search engins.

If I had any idea at all how to do it then I would 

[kweitzel]

good point, definatly when you consider the accessability act ...

cheers

Klaus

[Ed]

good point, definatly when you consider the accessability act ...

cheers

Klaus

Absolutly. i found this  http://www.silktide.com/tools/sitescore very hand site the other day. And this is what got me thikning. It basicly scans your site and works out how easy it is to navigate and how well designed it is.   

All of the sites i have made with WB score very highly for all but the accessabitly ( alt tags for images)

Overall i am masivly happy with WB, being able to add this one extra feature would make it even better. 

Check out that link for your own sites, its very interesting.   

[Ed]

Hey bakers 

Right i have been fidling around with this and made a tiny bit of progress  in the settings section for the gallery module under loop i put

<a href="[LINK]" TITLE="[TITLE]" >

instead of

<a href="[LINK]"

I tryed 

<a href="[LINK]" alt="[TITLE]" >

so that gives you a little pop up diplaying the title of the image when you mouse over the image.

so now the code in the page is

<a href="http://www.test5.vincent-creatives.com/pages/gallery/weird-dog2.php" TITLE="weird dog" >
<img src="http://www.test5.vincent-creatives.com/media/.gallery/thumb2.jpg" border="0" class="thumbnail" />

The alt tags need to go in the second line  so it would read

<a href="http://www.test5.vincent-creatives.com/pages/gallery/weird-dog2.php" TITLE="weird dog" >
<img src="http://www.test5.vincent-creatives.com/media/.gallery/thumb2.jpg" border="0"  alt="alt text here" class="thumbnail" />

The problem is i cant for the life of me find out, in the php files or in the backend, where that second line of code is dealt with..

if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be much apreiated.

thanks in advance 

[pcwacht]

You need to dig into view.php of the module (something like /modules/modulename/view.php)

The view.php is the php wich makes the frontend pages.

I don't use image gallery so I don't have the code handy.
But this is the file to start looking into


John

[rsmith]

Hi
a few things would need to be done. (detailed )

database - new field to hold alt/title text
update_18rc4_to_rc5 .php - to  make the changes to the existing database
install.php - to create new field during install

modify_image.php - to add alt/title text
save_image.php - to save alt/title text
view.php - to read/display the alt/title text.

EDIT
EN.php DE.php - language files for the Alt/Title Text to be viewed in the modify_image.php

I released a RC4 version a few days ago... I should be able to make the mod's for RC5 this weekend.

any more ideas before the release of v1.8?


Rob

[Ed]

I released a RC4 version a few days ago... I should be able to make the mod's for RC5 this weekend.

any more ideas before the release of v1.8?


Rob

That would be great to use those mods    I cant realy think of any other modsfor the gallery, the only weakness for me was the alt tags, as that can realy help with search results.

[rsmith]

Done

Check here :
http://forum.websitebaker.org/index.php/topic,1201.msg20443.html#msg20443



Rob

[Ed]

Very well played Sir   

A big thankyou