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images loop not displaying

Thread began 3/06/2012 2:16 pm by Christopher West | Last modified 3/08/2012 12:03 pm by Jason Byrnes | 1423 views | 5 replies |

Christopher WestCommunity Expert

images loop not displaying

Hello, ok my website is build up using webassist plugins (but I've also tried on single page) I have a series of client portfolios that have a title, short description and a set of photos) so the client are in a repeat region since these can be added to by Admin. then their photos are in a repeat region. but I have tried many different approaches and I cannot get the correct photos to loop for each individual client. The beauty of plugins is that I can reference a URL parameter but that don't work. I tried to do a Join, Left Join etc (but must have that set up wrong. The fields are:

PORTFOLIO table
PortfolioID
PortfolioTitle
PortfolioTXT
PortfolioImgID

IIMAGE table
ImagesID
ImagesFile
ImagesClientID

How would I define recordset so that I can repeat the portfolio table to display all records then also do another repeat (sons repeat inside a repeat) so that I can display all images that relate to each portfolio.

Would I need 1 or 2 recordsets and would they both be at the beginning of the page or one recordset defined inside the first loop?

Kind regards to anyone that can help :)

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

you table set up seams off


PortfolioImgID seams to create a relationship to the images table? is that correct? if so that is backwards, it will create a one image to many portfolios relation instead of the many images to one portfolio relationship that you are after.


looking at the table definition, it seams the first problem is that you haven't properly defined the relation between the tables

in the images table, you should have a column in which you store the ID of the portfolio


to show the images for the portfolio will take some custom coding. you need to have the recordset that looks up the images inside the loop that shows the portfolio. this recordset will filter based on the current portfolio ID in the portfolio recordset. then have a second loop to show all the images

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Christopher WestCommunity Expert

My apologies its just my naming conventions. In the Images table the ClientID stores the number from the Portfolio table (I just named it confusinging)

What custom coding do I need as I tried my best on different approaches. Isn't it just a case of creating a JOIN record set so that both tables are accessible together in the bindings table via the Join. So that if I am in a repeat nesting both tables will work together? Could you explain how to set up required custom coding? I tried already nesting repeats using repeat region. And I tried doing a join but that didn't work. I even tried putting the image repeat display in a separate file and using framebuilder plugins to call that file inside the repeat and use a URL parameter call in the record set.

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

no, you wouldn't use a join for this.


you would need 2 recordsets
the first to return portfolios

the second to return the images. the code would need to be structured like this:

-portfolios recordset
-portfolios repeat region
--echo portfolio name and other details
--images recordset
--images repeat region
----echo images recordset information
--end images repeat region
-end portfolios repeat region


in the images recordset, you would need to use advanced view to create it as:
SELECT * FROM IMAGE WHERE ClientID = paramClientID

in the variables section create a new variable as:
name: paramClientID
type: integer
default value: -1
Run Time value: $row_<portfolioRecordsetName>['PortfolioID']

where <portfolioRecordsetName> is the name of the portfolio recordset

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Christopher WestCommunity Expert

well thats just odd. that was the method I was going to do originally. but hadnt tested putting the recordset in the middle of the loop, funnily enough thats exactly what i was going to do. however I had to copy and paste the repeat region since dreamweaver wouldnt allow me to create another repeat region inside another, stating it didnt like doing nested regions in a behaviour. I tried using the webassist repeat selection but it came out with a different error. anyway hand coding allowed to work so its all playing nicely - What I am learning as that I do need to learn more hand coding skills, as relying on automatically generated code isnt enough for some websites. but its all good as thats exactly what I want to do :)

thnaks for the help :)

chris

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Jason ByrnesWebAssist

glad to hear it is working.

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