New Picture Notification

Email notification is covered in the User guide under customizing/scripts.

That's what I'm looking for. Any ideas anyone???

Great thinking! Now if you can show a php newbie how to do that I would be most greatfull. My website is growing faster than it ever has before thanks to the ease of the gallery. I did 230 pictures in one year and in the last two months I've added 300+ pictures to the site. I never knew there were that many Neons out there.

Thanks,
Greg

This seems a remarkably complicated way of doing something that should be simple. Why don't you just edit save_photos.php. Find this bit:

<?php
if (!$msgcount) {
print "No images uploaded!";
}
?>
<center>

and modify it

<?php
if (!$msgcount) {
print "No images uploaded!";
}
else {
//put email code here.
}
?>
<center>

Much simpler than doing the crontab thing, and you get notification immediately.

There have been 3 requests, so here it is.

My gallery is started as 1.3.1, but quite a few changes have been made.
So this is instructions on how to make the changes to send email. Let
me know if it's not clear.

For each section, open the file, find the line shown, then make the changes
described.

Note: this sends email to the album owner. It's an album property
whether or not email is sent for that album. For a typical gallery, you
probably just need email sent to a single administrator, not an album owner,
and you won't want to turn it off. If that is the case, don't bother with this,
just add a very simple email command to save_photos.php as described above.

1) in edit_appearance.php
Find this line
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $gallery->album->fields["display_clicks"] = $display_clicks; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->
and add underneath:
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $gallery->album->fields["email_update"] = $email_update; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

then find

<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> <tr>
<td>Allow public commenting for photos in this album?</td> </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->
and above it, add
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> <tr>
<td>Email album owner when photo is added?</td>
<td><select name="email_update"><?=selectOptions($gallery->album, "email_update", array("yes", "no")) ?></select></td>
</tr> </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

2) in save_photos.php
find
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> while (sizeof($userfile)) { </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

and above it, add
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $imagecount=0; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

find
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>global $gallery; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->
and change it to
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>global $gallery, $imagecount; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

Find
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> msg("- Adding $name"); </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->
and under it, add
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $imagecount++; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

Find
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>if (!$msgcount) {
print "No images uploaded!";
} </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->
and under it, add:
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE>else if ($gallery->album->getEmailUpdate()) {
$owner=$gallery->album->getOwner();
$to='"'.$owner->fullname.'" <'.$owner->email.'>';
$from=$to;
$text="[Note: This is an automatically generated email. If you no longer want to receive these emails, follow the link below, and turn the email option off in "properties"]rnrn".
$gallery->user->fullname." (".$gallery->user->username.") ".
"has added ".pluralize($imagecount, "image")." to your album ".
makeAlbumUrl($gallery->session->albumName).".";
$subject="[".$gallery->app->galleryTitle."] New images in ".$gallery->session->albumName;
mail($to, $subject, $text, "From: ".$from."rn");
} </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

3) in classes/Album.php

find
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $this->fields["public_comments"] = $gallery->app->default["public_comments"]; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

and under it, add
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $this->fields["email_update"]="yes"; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

find
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $nestedAlbum->fields["public_comments"] = $this->fields["public_comments"]; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->
and under it, add
<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> $nestedAlbum->fields["email_update"] = $this->fields["email_update"]; </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

find

<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> function getOwner() {
global $gallery;
return $gallery->userDB->getUserByUid($this->fields["owner"]); } </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

and under it, add

<!-- BBCode Start --><TABLE BORDER=0 ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH=85%><TR><TD><font class="pn-sub">Code:</font><HR></TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="pn-sub"><PRE> function getEmailUpdate() {
if (isset($this->fields["email_update"])) {
if (strcmp($this->fields["email_update"], "yes"))
{
return false;
}
}
return true;
} </TD></TR></TABLE><!-- BBCode End -->

It works!!!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! You did great and I'm loving getting notices when new pictures are added. The notices even show me which album they're added to which is an added bonus that no other mod I've seen has done.

You did great and thank you very much for that.

Greg
:smile: :wink:

Could you tell me where i can find this file so i can edit it? I have searched for save_photos.php and nothing comes up.

Thanks