Answered getImageList conditional counters

Hi,

I'm creating a simple image gallery with MIGX, and I'm using a custom pager in the frontend.
The gallery/pager is supposed to have "categories", and this is how I have done it:

MIGX form:


So first you choose the item type (image or category), and then you can enter the category name OR choose the image. Works fine so far. Simple to use.

What I need is to set this up for the frontend for which I need two type of counters.

This is how it's supposed to look:

Main images category: 1 2 3
Other images category: 1 2

Using +idx in the rowTpl will count all migx rows, both images and categories, which of course is useless for my display needs.

This is how the rowTpl could look like:



I need one counter/iterator to count only rows with type 'image'. (to hook it up with the data-cycle-arg)
And an other counter that only counts since previous category (i.e. resets with every category).

How do I do these special counters? A snippet that calls getImageList where I can get the migx items and count them the way I want? I'm not sure how to go further.
Maybe there is an other simpler way to achieve what I want?

Thanks.

/E [ed. note: Eminos last edited this post 12 years, 9 months ago.]

you can nest MIGX - TVs into each other

the outer one to create the categories.
the inner one for adding the images to each category.

That would probably solve one of the problem, I would then have the counter for the images of ONE category (unique +idx per category).
But I still need an other counter for ALL images in all the categories, available at "image-level-tpl".

And also a solution with nested MIGXs would not allow the user to simply drag and drop images between categories (by dragging the image-row bellow the category-row). A little bit more complicated to use.