Gallery & phpBB2

Update: 27 Nov 2002

Gallery 1.3.2 is now supported by Gallery->phpBB2 Integration Mod version 1.4.0.

Just a quick note to say that Gallery has been modified to work with phpBB2 although the support is still not official.

As a first stop you are advised to visit <!-- BBCode Start --><A HREF="http://www.snailsource.com/forum/" TARGET="_blank">www.snailsource.com/forum/</A><!-- BBCode End --> and check the Gallery forum there and I'd prefer to keep things all in one place but I'm sure loads of people will miss this post or simply duplicate posts anyway :grin:

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Very nice!

Let me ask you - does it read the permissions set in phpBB?

thanks again for this great idea and making it a reality :wink:
- Suede

Check this forum topic:

http://www.snailsource.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=525

Yep, mine works great too!

http://www.fatwillie.net/phpbb/modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index

Snailsource has a version that works with 1.3.3. http://www.snailsource.com/forum/dlman.php?func=select_folder&folder_id=9

One of our devs is working on built in phpBB2 integration, but that will be in 1.4.2 (at the earliest) so a bit of a wait.

http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=10720

Markos, and in what sense is this related to the original thread?

Please make a new thread, detailing what you have done, and what errors/problems you encounter in it.

tenshimitsu, download 1.4.3-cvs (be bleeding edge! ) from http://jpmullan.com/galleryupdates

It has phpBB integration built in.

yes, what did you think it does?
AFAIK all phpbb users will be registered gallery users.

Emmm.... no.
All that the integration does is read the phpbb user database and list the members when you open up the album permissions control panel. There is no automatic "rights" inheritance. There is no integration with usergroups either. Similarly, only the admin can create new albums.

John

I dont have shell access. It is just a free webhost. I have access through FTP and have a cPanel, but i couldn't find anything about it there.

Hmmmm.... Im not really sure. Someone wrote that the galleryforlder was supposed to pop up in the modules folder after you had added tha link...

I guess I will just have to start deleting the gallery then, and install it in the modules folder instead....

ok, i analyzed the gallery/phpbb mod.
it works also without a symlink, but you need to edit the mod a little.
easiest way to do it without symlink: install gallery in phpbb/modules/gallery.
if you want to keep gallery in the folder where you have it already, we need to change the phpbb/modules.php (comes with the gallery/phpbb mod)
ready?

phpbb mod without symlink and without having gallery in phpbb/modules/gallery:

1. download phpbb 2.0.+ and gallery 1.4.3+
2. unzip modules.php.gz and edit it as following:

line 54: replace:
        } else {
		include(MODULES_PATH."$name/$file.$phpEx");
        }
with:
        } else {
			if ($name == 'gallery') {
				include("../gallery/$file.$phpEx"); /* dirty hack for use without symlinks */
			} else {
				include(MODULES_PATH."$name/$file.$phpEx");
			}
        }

note that you have to change the include path '../gallery/index.php' to your needs, just point it to the index.php of your gallery installation.
3. upload the edited modules.php to phpbb/modules.php
4. modify phpBB2 code as instructed in the file that comes with the mod.
perhaps you'll need to adjust the path to the gallery icon in phpbb/templates/subsilver/overall_header.tpl

note: there's no "phpbb/modules" folder needed, if you don't use symlinks and don't use any other mods that are installed in this directory.

please let me know if it works.

omfg, just installed the gallery/phpbb mod to see what i'm talking about.

i differentiate 2 cases:
1. you click in phpBB on the Gallery link
-> loads the module.php and after it gallery/index.php
2. you browse to your gallery directly
-> no features of the phpBB integration will be used

- phpbb users can only login in phpbb, not with the gallery login button
- when you click in 2. "[manage users]" in gallery, there's only the admin user of gallery
- same for permissions when you click from 2.
- but everything works if you use 1.
- gallery has phpbb looks (phpbb css is included)

I modded a bit on the html_wrap files and now it looks good....

Visit my gallery at: http://www.klasse9d.hostcubix.com/forum/modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index&sid=d9f4e59dc6a76986a2cff710fc054e53

(It is a site for my class at school)

I still didn't understand what steps are necessary if I ONLY want to share usersbase between phpBB and Gallery. I don't want to embend gallery inside PHPBB.

Could you help me pleeeeease????

Thanks

OK I have all this integrated and its working brilliantly, but my one issue is the fact that only a phpBB admin can create albums, but users can create sub albums if I set the permissions so.

How can I allow ALL the phpBB board members to create thier OWN albums? There must be some way.....

thanks very much in advance.

skuba im no expert at all, its a miracle I even got it installed. The docs are really straight forward. But I really need to know how to change the permissions for the whole gallery and not just each album!!! Anyone know what I need to do?? At the moment only the admin can create albums and user can create sub albums...I do not want it this way.

Thanks

There is an updated (beta) integration mod across at www.snailsource.com which adds usergroup funtionality.

Be aware - when a usergroup member becomes an album owner they are able to assign permissions to any registered user, including non-usergroup users - a potential back-door that means all users can effectively get an album (well, sub-album to be precise).

John

Yes, but the integration is very limited - it really needs usergroup integration plus a whole load more stuff before it could be considered trully integrated. As it stands it works really well for a site where the admin can create albums for users. As soon as you make users able to "own" an album , there are all sorts of permissions issues as previously mentioned.

Sorry for this rant and I do really love Gallery - it's by far the best album script-set out there - but to claim phpbb integration is just misleading. A large number of phpbb users probably use Smartor's album mod and, whilst it has many limiting features as an album script, it does integrate properly into phpbb - usergroups, quotas, permissions, etc. Gallery, whilst superior as an album script, is way behind in integration terms.

Rant over - sorry.

John

hallo! I want to try to integrate my phpbb with gallery, but I read on the HowTo.txt that I need a fresh phpbb installation. Mine is not fresh, a couple of threads open. Is it safe to do it all the same?

Whats with the mass amount of errors on your page?

Does anyone have an idea at least? Thanks

Hello. First post on this forum.

I have gallery 1.4.4pl2 installed and phpbb 2.0.10 installed as well. Both are fresh installations.

I followed all instructions on integrating gallery with phpbb2. I didn't get any errors and assume everything is working.

My question is, why don't I see anything on the phpbb2 main page linking to the embedded gallery? Is there something I am missing? I thought once everything was done, I would have some sort of link on the main page that lists the forums linking to the gallery.

If I manually add this to the forum URL, I get the gallery emdedded in php:
.../phpbb/modules.php?op=modload&name=gallery&file=index

But when I navigate back to the forum, there's no way to see the gallery unless I manually add the above to the url.

I hope I am making myself clear enough.

Thanks!

Jeff

I added a link to index_body.tpl and it works great!

Thanks!

Just wanted to know if this still works with PHPBB2 2.0.11 and Gallery v1.4.4-pl4.

I figured it out, yes it does.