Hello Byron. Before bothering you I must say that I can't wait to see the new release that is integrated with google maps, one more amazing feature for PS!

Okay, now the bad part :(

I just started to use the name attribute to auto generate more than 1 gallery per post. Here perfect. Everything works just fine, but when out from the single.php,ex. category.php, seems that the shortcode [photosmash name="art vandelay"] creates a new gallery with the same name and associated with the same post instead of retrieving the one that already exists...

Am I doing something wrong, or you as well have the same problem?

Thanks for you time!

When you think that you have everything figure out, IE will come and prove you wrong! Hopefully your issues with IE for this next release is not that bad :)

I mixed up things. The behavior where it would create a new one even though it already existed one with the same name was on single.php. I allowed it to re-create (but it was necessary just one time, it would not go in a loop where every time that the single page is shown it would re-create another gallery over the last one re-created. -makes sense?-) and after that everything was fine on single.php.

On the cagetory. Oddly sometimes re-creates and sometimes just calls the right gallery.

Sorry, the code is now commented out. Since I don't want many duplicate galleries being created, I had to take off the galleries from showing on the categories... :(

Hope I was more specific this time.

thanks :)

Okay, lets try it again! :)

I will make an exemple them.

I had 5 galeries and was using the normal photosmash id=bla to get them on single.php and on the category.php:

galerie id=1 name->cup, related post 1
galerie id=2 name->fun, related post 2
galerie id=3 name->car, related post 3
galerie id=4 name->bus, related post 4
galerie id=5 name->lamp, related post 5

Them I changed the "id" for "name", so it would create new galleries automatic from now with the title name, something like that [photosmash name=$post_title].

So now even thought the post title was the same as their names cup, fun, car, bus and lamp PS didn't get those galleries it created 5 more with the same name and different id's like that (that being called from single.php):

gallery id=6 name->cup, related post 1
gallery id=7 name->fun, related post 2
gallery id=8 name->car, related post 3
gallery id=9 name->bus, related post 4
gallery id=10 name->lamp, related post 5

And when I put the shortcode [photosmash name=$post_title] on category.php it would either not show any gallery or create even another one, instead of getting the one that already existed with that name and related to that post like:

gallery id=11 name->cup, related post 1

Okay I don't know anymore if I am making myself clear or being even more unclear...

Did it help somehow?

Hello Byron.

The code is within the loop. I use the apostrophe (') character, rather than the backtick character (`).

code for both single and category files:

$post_title = single_post_title('', false);

echo do_shortcode("[photosmash name='$post_title' images='5' thumb_width='85' thumb_height='85' layout='ps_category']");

Thanks for you attention :)

Hello Byron. One more time, thank you very much for your attention.

Following your tip I did this change, not with ID, but still with title, and it worked perfectly!

from: $post_title = single_post_title('', false);

to: $post_title = $post->post_title;

I don't know why but it worked. I been working at late night so the problem might have been my sleepy eyes :)

Small suggestion:

Add to the shortcode a parametrer that allows the shortcode to create a new gallery in case the gallery is not found.
Something like that: [photosmash name='fun pic' create_gallery=true]

This way we can control a little bit more the creation of galleries.

After saying that I must say I have no words for how much I appreciate your help and your work with PS.

Thank you :)

Hi Yes,

Very welcome!

I don't think the timing of the creation of the galleries was the issue. The database call just looks for the an exact match on the gallery name. It might have been that the "single_post_title('', false);" was not returning exactly the same title...maybe some spaces or other hidden characters or something...who knows???

At any rate, glad it's working for you now.

As for the suggestion about the "create_gallery=true", I'll think on that. The current default is to create the gallery if it doesn't exist, which I like. I might put in no_create_gallery=true instead so you can tell it not to create the gallery if you don't want it to. I'll have to think on it.

Let me know what your thinking on that was.

Cheers,
Byron