Image Path Suggestion

Hi There!

The current Image Show GK4 and NSPGk4/5 thumbnail create class/method hard coded "images/" for image path and I don't know if I'm the only one from hundreds or thousands of Gavick users who customize com_media path instead of using the default image/ folder.

Anyways, I don't think it would be hard for Gavick's developer team to retrieve com_media image path rather than harcoding it to image/.

And by the way is there any issues if ever Gavick Templates or modules use a different image path?

Gavick developer if you ever consider changing your code, here it is:

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        function getMediaPath() {
           $imagemanager = JComponentHelper::getParams('com_media');
      $imagepath = $imagemanager->get('image_path', '');
      return $imagepath;
         }
   // function to change file path to  real path.
   function getRealPath($path) {
      //$start = strpos($path, 'images/');
      $start = strpos($path, self::getMediaPath());
      $path = './'.substr($path, $start);
      return realpath($path);
   }


Thanks!

Ill post that suggestion to devteam. Thanks a lot.

Hi Cyberek,

Any news from your devteam if they share my view on image path?

Well, I know it would create more time for them to update those layouts but at the end it benefits those clients like us who likes to organize website assets like images, documents, videos and not just dump all of it into a single folder called /images.

I really hope they will consider.

Thanks!

Right now its just a suggestion and will be considered, but it would require a lot of modifications to current templates. More likely it might be an idea for future templates.

Hi Cyberek,

I just saw your reply, the Forum system seems to be not sending email notification for replies.

Anyways, I checked what you said about the templates, that changes might needed for the templates to work with my suggestion. I don't think that's the case, I've been using Gavick templates for 3 years now and there's nothing in your code that uses a hardcoded /images to pull images. Your modules and templates are seems be independent with each other except for CSS/overrides.

Thanks!

Sorry, you are absolutely right. The code provided to our devteam will be merged into all templates soon. Thanks for providing it.