Liquid photogallery

Question

Hi All
Just trying to get my head around Liquid in particular for the module_photogallery.
I wanted to create a better photo gallery than the current one in BC. One where i can create a custom layout instead of relying on the default table gallery view inside BC.
Using the following as my reference - Developer reference
So I have created a page with the following module with a collection -
{module_photogallery id="32587" render="collection" collection="photogallerys" }
On the same page if I write the following liquid code:
{% for item in photogallerys.items %}
        <img src="{{item.thumbnaillink}}">
{% endfor %}
This was working how i intended it to (i know that it only targets one photogallery at a time)
Now I was thinking that what I could do is add a reference to a custom template like so: template="/Templates/custom/photo_gallery.tpl" . Now add the Liquid For item loop to that template.
So the photo gallery page would look like this
       {module_photogallery id="32587" render="collection" collection="photogallerys"  template="/Templates/custom/photo_gallery.tpl"}
The photo_gallery.tpl template file would look like this:
{% for item in photogallerys.items %}
        <img src="{{item.thumbnaillink}}">
{% endfor %}
When running this page nothing gets rendered to the screen.
I can make it render the photogallery items if I add  {module_photogallery id="32587"} to the template file.
Am i missing something in how to gain access to the liquid tags inside a module? Is this not possible currently in BC?

Answer 1

<!-- Liquid Enable Collection -->
{% for item in items %}
        <img src="{{item.thumbnaillink}}">
{% endfor %}
Don't forget that comment at the top, ie <!-- Liquid Enable Collection -->
This above was only a temporary solution - Surprised it still works but it wont at some point soon. The above is basically not the correct method.
{module_photogallery id="32587" render="collection"  template="/Templates/custom/photo_gallery.tpl"}
{% for item in this.items %}
        <img src="{{item.thumbnaillink}}">
{% endfor %}
The above is the correct implementation.
Clients SHOULD NEVER be doing any coding or template insertion of any sort - IF that happens or any one of my dev team implements that at Pretty they will be shot!
Code is for the developers, developers build solutions for clients to manage their site and content, not code it.
And what you said - BC have already did this.
You already have render="item/collection" in the module and collection="" for inline and custom template and template suppression with template="" - Good implementation and one you guys should use. BC wont be doing comments and any of the old implementations will get cleaned out.