By algeorge on

Hi I have the rudiments of my accommodation web site here:
http://www.alistairgeorge.com/thehome/
You will notice that there are multiple page title captions underneath the thumbnail which are linked to the multiple images loaded for that page. How do I remove the captions?
Thanks, Alistair.

SOLVED - Edrupal pointed out these captions were Alt Text. The problem resolution is shown at end of this post, by modification of the imagecache module. Also, after resolving the issue, was faced with multiple images, when desired was one thumbnail, with lightbox slideshow instantiation on click thumbnail. This effect was achieved by imagefield display teaser selection being as lightbox2 slideshow 'compact'.

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edrupal commented

Hi Alistair,

What you are seeing is the alt text related to the image being displayed rather than the imagecache thumbnail. For some reason the thumbnail image cannot be found so the alt text is displayed instead. According to the the html, the thumbnail images should be located in the folder http://www.alistairgeorge.com/thehome/sites/default/files/imagecache/pro...

Are there any images in that folder? Is the correct display option selected for the image field in the content type setup? Maybe try flushing the imagecache?

Hope this helps

Ed

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algeorge commented

Are there any images in that folder?
A..1 only but my understanding is they are dynamically created on demand?
Is the correct display option selected for the image field in the content type setup?
A..Not sure what you mean by that - Under content type Page I have added an image, with display fields Image/Label=hidden, Teaser=Lightbox2 slideshow: product->original (same under full node)
Maybe try flushing the imagecache?
A..Yes, I had tried flushing the 'product' cache.

When I click on the active image, Lightbox2 does the slideshow as desired, its just the captions that are a problem.

Sorry I cant be more help. Imagecache has been giving me some problems even though permissions are correct for directories, and have tried different combinations of .htaccess (its a Windows server), so you will be correct with your alt text summation above thanks.

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edrupal commented

Looking at your website I see you now have the 1st picture appearing. What did you do to make that happen?

Ed

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algeorge commented

Hi Ed. Thats why the query about the captions only - everything else seems to work OK eg the thumbnail is there; the slideshow works.
How I set it up is as standard; included an imagefile in the page with imagecache enabled exactly as posted in Drupal documentation. The image file has settings as above for display, with default files directory. In saying that, I am wondering if since the root directory is a subdirectory of main, could this be effecting imagecache ability to locate files.
EG is it expecting http://www.alistairgeorge.com/sites/default/files instead of http://www.alistairgeorge.com/thehome/sites/default/files:
Answer I just tried that eg change image files location to thehome/sites/default/files
no difference.
However, after changing I flushed presets for the image, and now there is no thumbnail shown, only alt text which if I click on an alt text the slideshow starts, as defined in display fields.
Tricky..............
Al
PS I should add that when I go to Imagecache/edit 'product' preset, I get the alt text instead of sample image eg:
http://www.alistairgeorge.com/thehome/sites/default/files/imagecache/pro...
With link click 'the page cannot be found' error.
imagecache_sample.png is in the files directory, clean urls enabled

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algeorge commented

Finally; got somewhere. Figured if the preview was not showing, then nothing was going to work properly. Went back to bug reports and there is a host of unsolved reports on imagecache.
http://drupal.org/node/536596
http://drupal.org/node/371195
http://drupal.org/node/410200
http://drupal.org/node/359387
And much more!

I figure its a Windows server issue based on 410200 above and the key was modifying line 320 imagecache.module:
return url($GLOBALS['base_url'] . '/index.php?q=' . file_directory_path() .'/imagecache/'. $presetname .'/'. $path, $args);
Now if you refer back to my site the images are all there. Thanks for the help.