Dave,
Thanks for the response. I figured that was how loop_items_in_collection() worked, so I tried passing it both large numbers and small numbers. No matter whether the value was 2 or 10000, collections/show always showed no more than 10 items in a collection.
I'm modifying the "Thanks Roy" theme, and I figured that I had messed something up, so I switched to the Berlin theme. In that theme I changed the value passed to loop_items_in_collection() and got the same result: no more than 10 items in a collection.
I looked and the function definition for loop_items_in_collection() and noticed that it referred to 'per_page', so I changed the settings in for "per page public" in the Omeka Admin to an arbitrarily high number. Still 10 items per collection.
In NewThemeFunctions.php, the function definition looks like this:
loop_items_in_collection($num = 10, $options = array())
I tried changing the default for $num to 10000, then tried passing loop_items_in_collection() no value. Still 10 items per collection.
I figured that I was making an amateur mistake somewhere, so I asked my local PHP guru for help. He looked at the function definitions for loop_items_in_collection() and for get_items(). He figured out that the default value for $limit in get_items() overrides the value passed to it by loop_items_in_collection(). His solution was to change the line in loop_items_in_collection() that reads
$items = get_items(array('collection'=>get_current_collection()->id, 'per_page'=>$num));
so that it reads
$items = get_items(array('collection'=>get_current_collection()->id),$num);
That solution works. I'm able to change the value passed to loop_items_in_collection() to a low number or a high number, and the function performs as expected.
Does that solution make sense? Is there a better way besides modifying the Omeka files?
