You have to put the name of the image you want loaded. The concept of "fisrt image" is a tricky one because that will depend on the sort order chosen. You can create an album object for the album and use $images = $albumobject->getImages(); to get an array of the image names in the album. Then you could use $images[0] for the image name.
Hi sbillard/marc_sss. Sorry for jumping in on your thread - I hope I haven't broken any blogging etiquette, I'm new to this. sbillard has been helping me with another problem but having read these comments I would like to bin my original idea and copy your idea of jumping straight to the image.php page. However I can't get it to work - I have replaced the code on theme/index.php with
However I do not understand the instruction: you will have to initialize the state so that zenphoto thinks it is processing an image. I also don't understand how to implement the final instructions - "create an album object for the album and use $images = $albumobject->getImages(); to get an array of the image names in the album. Then you could use $images[0] for the image name."
My site is hedshot.co.uk.
Any chance you could break it down into really simple steps for me? I realise I am taking up a lot of your time - I would be happy to pay you for your services as I really, really appreciate your help.
Thanks for the tips, sbillard. That looks very similar to Actionscript, actually... I love PHP!
Jeff, regarding your question about skipping album.php, in case you still need help here are the links that helped me out! I actually have two different installs on the same site, one that uses the thumbnail on index.php as a link straight to image.php; the other redirects straight to image.php but has the thumbnails on the page. If you already know how to do all this, please disregard! :)
http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=3156
http://www.zenphoto.org/support/topic.php?id=752&replies=10