Adding a Thumbnail to a DataObjectManager

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21 May 2009 | Aram Balakjian | CMS, Images | Supports v2.4, v2.3

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This snippet lets you add a thumbnail to items in UncleCheese's Data Object Manager module or a regular Complex Table field. All you need to do is create a function that returns a thumbnail and refer to this function in your DOM or CTF definition.

So add a function like this to your DataObject class:

	
function getThumbnail() 
{
	if ($Image = $this->Image()) 
	{
		return $Image->CMSThumbnail();
	} 
	else 
	{
		return '(No Image)';
	}
}

Notice the use of CMSThumbnail() SilverStripe has already done the hard work of creating the thumbnail so all you need to do is call this function on your image!

Then in your same DataObject class, you simply add the Thumbnail call to your $summary_fields static. You could also call it in the actual DOM definition if you wanted to.

		
static $summary_fields = array(
	'Thumbnail' => 'The Image'
);