I am trying to form a string for the picture info in a lightbox gallery display. Originally I just used the following
<td><div style='height:175px;'></div></td><td><a href='images/memwork/".$cell1['folder']."/".$cell1['filename']."' data-lightbox='image-".$cell1['id']."' data-title='".$cell1['title']." by ".$cell1['artist']."<br />".$cell1['medium']." ".$cell1['width']." x ".$cell1['height']." cm. <br />Price: £".$cell1['priceu']."'><img class='tn' src='images/memwork/".$cell1['folder']."/".$cell1['tn']."' /></a></td>
But this became a nightmare trying to trap zero prices, dimensions or medai types with ternary operators so I am now trying to format the data with IF statements and add the result into the data array. However, I seem to have missed something as the result is always just " by ". My code is:
$query = "SELECT * FROM gallery WHERE sig=1 LIMIT $start,6";
}
$result = mysqli_query($db, $query);
$i=1;
while($row = mysqli_fetch_assoc($result)) {
${'cell'.$i} = $row;
$gal_artist = $row['artist'];
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) AS num FROM gallery WHERE artist='$gal_artist'";
$total = mysqli_fetch_array(mysqli_query($db,$query));
${'cell'.$i}['num_pics'] = $total['num'];
$picdata = ${'cell'.Si}['title']." by ".${'cell'.Si}['artist'];
if (${'cell'.Si}['medium'].${'cell'.Si}['width'] !='') $picdata = $picdata."<br />";
if (${'cell'.Si}['width'] >0) $picdata = $picdata." ".${'cell'.Si}['medium']." ".${'cell'.Si}['width']." x ".${'cell'.Si}['height']." cm.";
if (${'cell'.Si}['price'] >0) $picdata = $picdata."<br />Price: £".${'cell'.Si}['price'];
${'cell'.Si}['picdata'] = $picdata;
$i++;
}
and the table data statements should simplify to
<td><div style='height:175px;'></div></td><td><a href='images/memwork/".$cell1['folder']."/".$cell1['filename']."' data-lightbox='image-".$cell1['id']."' data-title='".$cell1['picdata']."'><img class='tn' src='images/memwork/".$cell1['folder']."/".$cell1['tn']."' /></a></td>