Mambo + Gallery - short URLS

It's possible to force Gallery to use Mambo-like SEF URL's. The following changes were done to gallery 1.5-cvs-b273, though a similar change could be back-ported to 1.4.4pl4... (this requires reasonable PHP knowledge...)

In the function makeGalleryURL() (in 1.5, this is in libs/uril.php - previously it was in util.php)

In the 'mambo' case for the GALLERY_EMBEDDED_INSIDE_TYPE switch...
Replace:
$target = $gallery->session->mambo->mosRoot . "index.php";
with
$target = "index.php";

This is because mambo's SEF creation code won't touch any URL that doesn't start with 'index.php' (and, at least on my setup, mosRoot is "/".)

Then, at the bottom of this function, replace:
return htmlspecialchars($url);
with:

if (function_exists('sefRelToAbs') &&  ($args['include'] != "do_command.php") && isset($GALLERY_EMBEDDED_INSIDE) && ($GALLERY_EMBEDDED_INSIDE_TYPE == 'mambo')) {
        return sefRelToAbs(htmlspecialchars($url));
} else {
        return htmlspecialchars($url);
}

Simply, this just says 'if we're embedded, and embedded inside of mambo, then call mambo's function to convert the URL to a SEF one and return that...

This might be a nice (and VERY SIMPLE) change which would be nice in the mainline of gallery...

edit: added the conditional for function_exists()... (see below)
edit: added the conditional to prevent sef when do_command.php

BTW, if anyone wants to see this in action, I'm using it for my daughter's website (http://laci.garyndenise.org) along with several other SEF related changes within mambo itself (resulting in simple URLS such as "/photos/itemID/AlbumName/PhotoName") Once I figure out the "proper" way to override SEF in mambo (I keep reading there are proper hooks for this, but I can't find them), I'll put together a seperate package...

Take care
Gary

Another edit... some admin-type gallery links were dying (including some photo upload type things.) It's a bit harder to track those down, and they MIGHT only be related to some other SEF related changes I have on my own site (in mambo), so..

Anyway, I've fixed the above code to NOT call mambo's SEF function if gallery wants to include do_command.php. This seems to correct the problems for me....

Thanks for pointing me here Kai, I'm too tired to think about applying the changes at the moment (it is 4am in the morning) but just wanted to say that I noticed Gallery 1.4.4-pl2 jumped out of Mambo when renaming a nested sub-album. And that was without any modifications to either package (other than adding the gallery component), so the behaviour you noticed may not be directly attributable to the hack in this thread.

Gary_d, thanks so much for your mod here.

One question though:

In my Mambo 4.5.1a I can get the titles to reflect my Gallery 1.5rc1 album names but NOT the image names?

I tried putting all kinds of sutff in photo.header.default such as this:

<!-- old title commented out here 
		&<?php //echo $gallery->album->fields["title"] ?>&-->


		 <!-- new Gary D title here also commented out since it did not show the image name in the page title
		  &<?php //echo $gallery->album->fields["title"]; global $mainframe; $mainframe->setPageTitle($gallery->album->fields["title"]); ?>


		 -->
<!-- trying this, which is close but only displays "-" and no image name in my page title		  <?php echo $gallery->app->galleryTitle . ' :: '. $gallery->album->fields["title"] . ' :: '. $title ; global $mainframe; $mainframe->setPageTitle($gallery->app->galleryTitle . ' :: '. $gallery->album->fields["title"] . ' :: '. $title);
		  ?>
		  
		  &

The example site is at maktub.lunarpages.com

Does anyone know how to get the page titles to ALSO show the photo name when inside of Mambo?

many thanks in advance,

- Kevin

LogicX, this will be great if I can get it work work.

I'm half way into your mod (on 4.5.2 and Gallery 1.5rc2) but I can not find the lines in the UTIL.PHP file you say to change. In fact, when I search 1.5rc2's UTIL.PHP for "mambo" it only shows up once here:

} elseif ($GALLERY_EMBEDDED_INSIDE_TYPE == 'mambo') {

And this does is not the same as the code you say to change. Is there something I'm missing or are you using a different version of Gallery other than 1.5rc2?

I'm sure the error is on my end.

Any advice (or approx line numbers to change in UTIL.PHP) would greatly appriciated.

thanks,

- Kevin

Thanks! I've fixed this. My previous tutorial (1.4.4 versions of gallery) had the code to be modified in util.php, not url.php. Updated.

Its not so much that there's an added slash, but that somehow its getting the image from the wrong path. The correct path would be:

maktub.lunarpages.com/gal/images/nav_next.gif

Please be sure that you have
$gallery->app->photoAlbumURL = "maktub.lunarpages.com/gal";

I believe 2 and 3 should be fixed if photoAlbumURL is correct. If this URL maps to the 'real' gallery URL, as I've tried to explain in my tutorial, then gallery will continue to function correctly for everything else.

Let me know how I can better explain the real Vs. Fake gallery URL paths.

You're welcome, keep working with me, and we'll improve upon this, and hopefully I can convince someone to put it in the next 1.5.x release of gallery ;)

Logicx,

One more question. Do you know how to hard code a search string into a link?

When I search the photos its returns me to the root index.php so I'm not sure what URL to use if I want to create a link that only shows pictures with certain keywords or titles.

thanks,

- Kevin

Ah.. just a note for anyone else using this mod. If you re-run the config wizard at a later date be sure to add this line back into your config.php when you are done (since config wizard will remove it):

$gallery->app->embeddedphotoAlbumURL = "http:www.yourdomain/yourfakegalleryname";

Mike, the search string you sent works great. Thanks. (I'm only using Mambo core SEF.)

- Kevin

Perhaps you're on WINDOWS, but they're running apache.

I see what you mean by backwards crumbs -- this blows my mind, not sure how that would even be accomplished

I can't think of any reason why that line would not work, however the rest of your .htaccess seems to work, because the url: http://www.ellescifiportal.com/gallery/Sci-Fi works fine, however your gallery pages are not generating the correct SEF URL which tells me that you probably didn't replace the url.php file correctly, please check that.

no problem. Let me think about the backwards crumbs a little bit and I'll see what I can come up with.