Folks:
I've tried several ways to ask this question, but received no replies, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something totally obvious...
I want to put a clickable link in the title or description of "Image C" --that is, some specific image-- to allow a viewer to look at the related "image J" --that is,
another specific image in the same gallery.
(Why? In my gallery, "Image C" is an interesting historical photo, and "Image J" is a scan of the handwriting found on the back of "Image C". For a variety of reasons, the images are not otherwise coordinated, say, by a naming convention that would keep them together in a standard image sort order.)
There are apparently two separate issues to doing this.
#1. A code change may be necessary to make any BBCode-speak link in the text fields clickable. See:
http://forum.coppermine-gallery.net/index.php?topic=25256.0If I understand correctly, there's a brief bit of code that needs to be stripped (in some, or in all versions?) to enable clickable links in description (and also in title?) fields.
#2. I do not understand how to link-reference a particular image in a gallery, or if it is even possible to write an invariant link to a particular image, one that will survive routine reorganization of the gallery. That means deletions, additions and re-classification to a different album, as must be expected to occur over time in a gallery.
Issue #1 is clear and seems manageable. But I'm stuck on issue #2. I've already posted a proposal to use a brute force method by building a link of the form:
url=http://www.hostname.com/mypics/albums/SomeSpecificAlbum/ImageJ.jpg
and using that, suitably expressed in bbcode-speak. This method would NOT be totally invariant; it would fail when "ImageJ" is moved from album to album, as might reasonably occur. But no one has commented or offered a better solution.
Please let me know, even to tell me that I'm being incredibly dense about this, which would be useful information <grin> -- but not as useful as an invariant, generally-applicable, developer-approved method of achieving the goal of linking one image to another in a gallery.
TIA,
Henry