UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V6 Modifications Forum Design Integration PhotoPost Pro and photos on Entrance page

Hi gang,

I am bleary here... so I thought I'd throw this out to the community for some ideas to get me going.

If you look at our Entrance page:
http://www.syngnathid.org
you will see we have three image rotators in custom PAL boxes. The code for these is causing some JS warnings, probably due to the multiply-nested single and double quotes required to make it run...

But, what I am looking to do now that we have PPPro, is pull those photos out of the photo gallery, and in the same pass fix those pesky JS errors.

Here are the caveats:
1) The photo gallery has one master section called Species Gallery, which is subdivided into the 3 subcats, each corresponding with one of the images on the Entrance page (i.e. there is a "Seahorses" subcat, a "Sea-Dragons" subcat, and a "Pipefish" subcat). Each of these are further divided by commonality and species. So, I will need a clever query to get ALL of the seahorse photos so I can display a random one, and obviously the same for the other two subcats.

2) I have the current images that cycle through on the entrance page set to 200x150. Is there a way to have PPPro give me the image at that size? It seems to make images based on percentages of original size, but can I hook into GD somehow to get my thumbnail at 200x150?

If I can get that together, I would be THRILLED, so any input is GREATLY appreciated!!!

Cheers,

Chris