Feature Request: Access to Album Parent info with Diff

[brlanier]

I wanted access to the parent of an album to pass that to gallery.album for display purposes.

Modified Gallery snippet with the following changes:

--- snippet.gallery.php 2012-05-17 14:04:12.000000000 -0700
+++ snippet.gallery.new.php     2012-05-17 14:03:53.000000000 -0700
@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
         'Album.'.$albumField => $album->get($albumField),
     ));
     $galleryId = $album->get('id');
+    $galleryParent = $album->get('parent');
     $galleryName = $album->get('name');
     $galleryDescription = $album->get('description');
     unset($albumWhere,$albumField);
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@
     ));
     if (empty($album)) {
         $galleryId = 0;
+        $galleryParent = '';
         $galleryName = $tag;
         $galleryDescription = '';
     }
@@ -212,6 +214,7 @@
     $modx->toPlaceholders(array(
         $toPlaceholder => $output,
         $toPlaceholder.'.id' => $galleryId,
+        $toPlaceholder.'.parent' => $galleryParent,
         $toPlaceholder.'.name' => $galleryName,
         $toPlaceholder.'.description' => $galleryDescription,
         $toPlaceholder.'.total' => $count,
@@ -220,6 +223,7 @@
     $placeholderPrefix = $modx->getOption('placeholderPrefix',$scriptProperties,'gallery.');
     $modx->toPlaceholders(array(
         $placeholderPrefix.'id' => $galleryId,
+        $placeholderPrefix.'.parent' => $galleryParent,
         $placeholderPrefix.'name' => $galleryName,
         $placeholderPrefix.'description' => $galleryDescription,
         $placeholderPrefix.'total' => $count,

In my case I can pass [[+parent]] like [[!GalleryAlbums? &parent=[[+gallery.parent]] &showAll=0 &prominentOnly=0 ]] and create a sort of drill down effect with the display. Allows me to recreate the nested album effect shown in the manager.

This works for me and is a minor change. Not sure about the correct contents for parent when setting the defaults when $album is empty. Just left blank for now.

Please include this simple mod in one of the next revisions. Thanks Brian

[brlanier]

Formatting on diff got all jacked up and I didn't realize it. Not sure how to post a legible diff. I can't see how to attache code.