Field Types

The Gallery app includes a field type called albumlist. This can be used in regular content templates and templates from other apps. It displays a select field containing all the albums, and returns the albumSlug as its value.

The field type is activated by setting type="albumlist" on a template tag.

<perch:content id="album" type="albumlist" label="Album">

At its most basic, this can be used to form a link to an album. You can also get the value back with skip-template and pass it to one of the album functions.

Something like the following:

<?php
    $album = perch_content_custom('My region', array('skip-template'=>true));
    if (is_array($album)) {
        // ['album'] is the ID of the field to get the slug from
        $albumSlug = $album[0]['album'];
        perch_gallery_album($albumSlug);
    }
?>