Gallery 1.4 in Mambo: component point to album?

Jace1311

Joined: 2004-01-25
Posts: 45
Posted: Tue, 2005-02-15 08:19

Hi, I have my Gallery as component in my Mambo CMS on my site. I am wanting to have 2 separate links on my CMS menu that point to 2 separate Albums of my Gallery. I can't seem to point the component url to an Album and was wondering, first of all, if it's possible to do so?
And then whether I could then install a 2nd component to point to the second Album?? (Both Albums would be from the same Gallery). Obviously this will prevent me having to install 2 separate Gallery scripts just for the purpose of incorporating my albums within Mambo.

Thank you! :)
 
Jace1311

Joined: 2004-01-25
Posts: 45
Posted: Wed, 2005-02-16 02:32

Basically I would love to be able to have 2 sep. components on Mambo that point to 2 sep. albums in my one Gallery installation.
Anyone??

Thanks.
 
Jhearad

Joined: 2005-02-11
Posts: 10
Posted: Thu, 2005-02-17 12:53

Can you not just jot down the addresses for the two galleries and then create two menu entries to point at those directly?
 
Jace1311

Joined: 2004-01-25
Posts: 45
Posted: Thu, 2005-02-17 21:38

As far as I know, when you set a menu to point to your gallery, you choose the gallery component. When you go into Components in Mambo, Gallery is pointed to the direct folder of the gallery script, eg:

/home/site/public_html/GALLERY/

I have tried to point it to an album instead, eg:

/home/site/public_html/GALLERY/ALBUM1
OR
/home/site/public_html/GALLERY/ALBUM2, etc.

but this doesn't work.

My only thought is to install another gallery script and double the components on mambo. Any other way out???

Thanks! :)
 
kai_tom

Joined: 2004-04-08
Posts: 347
Posted: Thu, 2005-02-17 22:01

Hi,

maybe this thread helps:
http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=21933&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Kai
 
Jace1311

Joined: 2004-01-25
Posts: 45
Posted: Fri, 2005-02-18 20:29

This doesn't seem to help.
In Mambo, when you you install a Gallery component you have one place to enter your "Full server path to your Gallery". I have tried to add an Album name after the Gallery path folder but it didn't work.

Other ways on Mambo would make it a wrapper style, which isn't what I was trying to achieve.

More ideas??
 
kai_tom

Joined: 2004-04-08
Posts: 347
Posted: Fri, 2005-02-18 21:56

This works for me:

point your browser to the album you want to link to
copy the Url
in Mambo's Backend - Menu - mainmenu - New - Link URL
paste here the link, should be for example:
index.php?set_albumName=album06&option=com_gallery&Itemid=58&include=view_album.php
(without http ://www domain)
same for the second link

Or, if you want to use the component:
Menu - mainmenu - New - Component - Gallery
Then you have to modify the database table mos_menu and change the link from index.php?option=com_gallery to the copied link
(backup before)
same for the second link

Kai
 
Jace1311

Joined: 2004-01-25
Posts: 45
Posted: Mon, 2005-02-21 22:42

hi, the first option worked fine! :)
Thanks!!!
:oops: