Passing image ID to another resource?

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Daz Reply #1, 15 years, 2 months ago

Is there a way to pass the ID of a gallery item (ie an image) to another resource to display?
I have a parent "Gallery Home" resource that lists the albums, and I have worked out how to link the thumbnail to another resource to display all the thumbs in that album.

Now I’d like to link those thumbnails to another resource where I can display (for example) the descrioption and any other info.

Is there an equivilant to &albumRequestVar for items?

Thanks in advance
Daz
formerly sumodaz on here!
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Daz Reply #2, 15 years, 2 months ago
OK, I think I have solved this, but would like some feedback

In my template for the gallery thumbnail images, I entered a variable called imageID into the href string:
```
<div class="[[+cls]]">
    <a href="[[~[[~262]]?&imageID=`[[+id]]`]]" title="[[+name]]">
    	<img data-href="[[+thumbnail]]" class="[[+imgCls]]" alt="[[+name]]" width="130" height="92"/>
    </a>
  <div class="clear"></div>
  <h5>[[+name]]</h5>
</div>
```
(262 is the ID of my image-viewer resource)

I then created a snippet called get_image_id:
```
<?php
echo $_GET['imageID'];
```
And then in the image-viewer resource, I call the snippet to get the ID!
```
[[!GalleryItem? &id=`[[get_image_id]]` &toPlaceholders=`1`]]
```
This assumes the premise that the images are given a unique ID number as they are loaded (which it appears they do), and of course, makes sense.

So, is this how other people have done/do this?

Thanks
Daz
formerly sumodaz on here!