Gallery

[Anonymous]

I realize there have been some images uploaded buuuuut...

are we partial to Gallery?

If we are going to stick with the phpBB, we might as well go about either integrating Gallery or finding one that will work along side. I've seen the work to integrate Gallery with phpBB and its a little hard to integrate (proably easier on this default template). There is the smartor Album mod though.

I use it on a site and it integrates quite well. Can include the galleries on the index.

Just throwing it up.

http://smartor.is-root.com/album.php for an example

the member galleries are nice.

install is pretty painless. can use EasyMOD even.

[andy]

Thats just what I was thinking actually nitro. Allowing each phpBB user to have their own gallery of images using the same login. Sounds like an easy enough mod to make too, but first I think this should be upgraded to the latest version to make things simpler.

And yes, once thats operational I think we can lose the existing gallery since there isn't that much in it now.

Drop me an email and I'll get you setup with access to the site.

Andy

[Anonymous]

Gallery is installed and ALMOST working..

need you to install GD andy. http://www.boutell.com/gd/http/gd-2.0.33.tar.gz

./configure
make
make install

if neither the the JPEG nor the PNG and ZLIB libraries are found -- you will need to install those libraries

ty

[andy]

Nitro, according to my server admin folks:

"It appears that GD is installed on this server and PHP is configured to include the functionality."

Any reason from your point of view that thats not the case ?

Andy

[Anonymous]

Ah, ok. i am able to see the GD Libraries now. but....

I had similar issues, all file uploads uploaded if you went and looked in the upload folder, but any attempt to use gd failed (thumbs, blank screen of death after upload of anything other than gif (before applying the gif thumb patch)) and nothing showed up in the gallery if the page was reloaded.
This is how I fixed them.

At first I thought I had gd. phpinfo told me otherwise. I recompiled php with the --with-gd option on the config script and got the bundled version to show up in phpinfo, but still no functionality on the gallery pages. Then I tried the newest gd.

If you recompiled gd, for php to use it rather than its bundled version you have to set a config script option pointing it to the new stuff (--with-gd=/usr/local/). Also note that you will need to get the most recent cvs snapshot of php to fix a bug relating to the use of an external gd, as this bug does effect the last full release of php (4.3.10).

Go here: http://snaps.php.net/ to get the latest stable snapshot.

Build gd, install it, then build a new php from the snapshot. Be sure to include the --with-gd=/usr/local/ --with-zlib-dir=/usr/lib/ tags on the config script, change the dirs if you need to. Also be sure to restart apache after installing the new version of php. Took me a lot of digging to get all this and get it working, but now its here in one place.

Apparently others have had this problem.

Before I go any further though, there is a choice to be made. We can use smartors album hack (http://smartor.is-root.com/album.php) or we can maybe use Coppermine Gallery. I've had good luck with coppermine and it uses the lovely ImageMagik for its graphic work. On real diffrence is..

If the template changes here, the coppermine gallery theme has to be changed too. Unless we use another popular template, it will have to be themed manually. Thats where smartors album hack has the advantage. It uses the phpBB Theme system.

But, feature wise, coppermine is MUCH more mature. Sub-Categories and the like. I would of course bridge the user base so they would be fully integrated.

coppermine can be found at http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/
demo http://coppermine.sourceforge.net/demo/

so many choices

[andy]

Cool, coppermine looks very nice indeed. With a better feature set I think it would be the one to go for, as the theme integration is generally a one time affair anyway. Just one small thing in that demo page was that I couldn't see any usernames associated with images ? I was quite fond of associating a list of images with a user, and then browsing that users pics. Is that possible or did I miss it ?

Also, before continuing with any amendments to this forum, maybe it should be upgraded to the latest version of phpBB ? If you need that let me know and i'll do it tonight. I'd do it now but I don't want to overwrite any gallery stuff you've done

Thanks,

Andy

[Anonymous]

In an extreme oversight, i neglected to mention in that last post,
i've upgraded the forums

Template still says its 2.0.6 though

I'll install a demo of coppermine this afternoon.
It does have user integration with phpbb.