bbclone counter in G2: here the solution!

Hi there, I was thinking that implementing bbclone in G2 would be easy as implementing bbclone in G1. It's not the case.

I started by understanding how to get the photo and album variables, to be included in _BBC_PAGE_NAME.

To summarize what I did.

- I've insalled the last version of bbclone in my g2 folder: /var/www/gallery2/bbclone/
- I've created a "local" folder inside the "templates" folder and I've copied the global.tpl file there, in order to edit it
- In global.tpl, just before this line: {* If debugging or profiling is enabled, we'll display it here *} I've added the following code:

{if isset($ShowItem)}
{php}
define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $this->_tpl_vars['ShowItem']['item']['title']);
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/var/www/gallery2/bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);
{/php}
{/if}

Results: the counter doesn't count anything and the debugging doesn't show me any error.

I've tried to create a test php file, in the g2 root folder, I called it testcount.php which includes the following code:

<?php

define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", "Test Count");
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/var/www/gallery2/bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);

?>

Browsing to the testcount.php page, bbclone counts it.

What's the problem, why doesn't bbclone work when called from the global.tpl file?

Thanks for letting me know and for sharing your bbclone implementation tests in this thread.

At that source location I just see 2 blank lines:

    </div>


          </body>
</html>

But this is correct, as bbclone is a hidden counter. It simply logs results that can be viewed using the bbclone interface.

The problem is that in this case it doesn't log anything.

I activated the bbclone debug mode and what I get is:

I started a topic also in the bbclone forum

Olliver, the chief and main bbclone developer told me:

I will try to put the code, again, inside main.php or somewhere else, but not inside a function, else it won't work...

Edit: I tried to put the code in main.php, at the end of the file: it doesn't work.

Mitico bharat! Grazie mille!!! ok, now back in English ;)...

Really really thanks, I did as you suggested and it worked fine! I think that this post will be really helpful for who wants to use bbclone in G2.

That's really a little big result. Thanks again. Isn't there a way to update via cvs and merge the last lines in the main.php? Else, no problem, I'll delete main.php before updating and add that code to the new main.php downloaded via CVS...

A minor addon, to make it perfect, would be to add the string "Album:" before the $this->_tpl_vars['ShowItem']['item']['title'] variable... IF it's an album. (As I'm doing with G1).

So an album called "Family" will be logged as "Album: Family" and it will be easier to distinguish albums from pictures in the counter statistics.

I'll try to figure out how to do it and post the results here.

Sincerely,

Paolo

it shouldn't be different from previous versions, just edit themes/matrix/templates/theme.tpl instead of global.tpl

i don't think your paths are correct:
replace
if (defined("_BBC_PAGE_NAME")) {
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
if (is_readable(COUNTER)) include_once(COUNTER);
}
by
if (defined("_BBC_PAGE_NAME")) {
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/bbclone/");
define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
require_once(COUNTER);
}
then it should give you an error if the path if wrong. in this case, change /bbclone/ in the line
define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/bbclone/");
to the correct path.

To me it looks like the _BBC_PAGE_NAME does not get defined but I might be wrong...

Many Thanks valiant for your help today!

I copy/past your code in a fresh theme.tpl file and put it in my local folder.

I get the following error:
Fatal error: Smarty error: [in gallery:themes/matrix/templates/theme.tpl line 61]: syntax error: unbalanced parenthesis in if statement (Smarty_Compiler.class.php, line 1251) in /srv/www/htdocs/gallery2/lib/smarty/Smarty.class.php on line 1088

I put the code just before the <div id="gsFooter">:

I've read and reread your few lines and can't see anything wrong with it!

Any idea - as you can guess I'm far from being a PHP expert and your help today is much appreciated.

It's working! Thanks valiant.

Final code was:

The {/if} was not necessary.

Hi,

Have somebody ever tried the smarty native function {include_php} ? http://smarty.php.net/manual/en/language.function.include.php.php
it seems more efficient for your problem

I try to include an anover statistic tools too, but my customization don't work yet (but I didn't try the function {include_php} for the moment)

For the page name I use :
$page_name = $theme->parents[parent]->title;
with this instruction i have the full path of an item, like this :
"Album root name > Album name > sub-album name > ... > Item name"

nikk0s

Thanks to all these great suggestions, I got my bbclone working with the latest G2.

I ended up using include statements in both theme.tpl and main.php. This will make it much, much easier to handle cvs updates going forward.

I created 2 files (bbclone_main.php and bbclone_theme.php) and put them in my g2/mymods directory.

They look like this:

bbclone_theme.php

<?php

// Addition to Gallery2 - theme.tpl for bbclone Integration

if ($this->_tpl_vars['theme']['pageType'] == 'album' ||
        $this->_tpl_vars['theme']['pageType'] == 'photo') {
      if ($this->_tpl_vars['theme']['item']['entityType'] == "GalleryAlbumItem"
      )
        $log_name = 'Album: ';
      else
        $log_name = '';

      $parents = $this->_tpl_vars['theme']['parents'];
      $parent_list = '';
      foreach ($parents as $i) {
        $parent_list = $parent_list . ' / ';
          if ($i['pathComponent'] == '') {
          $parent_list = $parent_list . $i['title'];
        } else {
          $parent_list = $parent_list . $i['pathComponent'];
        }
      }

      $log_name = $log_name . $parent_list . ' / ' .
                  $this->_tpl_vars['theme']['item']['pathComponent'];
      define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $log_name);
    }

?>

bbclone_main.php

<?php

// Addition to Gallery2 - main.php for bbclone integration

if (defined("_BBC_PAGE_NAME")) {
 define("_BBCLONE_DIR", "/home/httpd/myrootdir/g2/bbclone/");
 define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
 if (is_readable(COUNTER)) {
 include_once(COUNTER);
 }
}
?>

Then I added include statements in the following files:
g2/main.php

include("/home/httpd/myrootdir/g2/mymods/bbclone_main.php")

g2/themes/matrix/templates/local/theme.tpl

 {include_php file="/home/httpd/myrootdir/g2/mymods/bbclone_theme.php"}

Now, whenever I upgrade, I just need to add these 2 include statements to main.php and theme.tpl. I can keep all the bbclone code in my own files.

Hope that helps others.
Edge

I've recently setup this solution on my own website that doesn't involve any modification to the gallery2 code.

Create a file called gallery2.php and put it in the root of your gallery2

<?php
require_once(dirname(__FILE__) . "/main.php");

$Title = pathway($_GET['g2_itemId']);
if (strlen($Title) > 0){
	define("_BBC_PAGE_NAME", $Title);
	define("_BBCLONE_DIR", dirname(__FILE__) . "/bbclone/");
	define("COUNTER", _BBCLONE_DIR."mark_page.php");
	if (is_readable(COUNTER)) require (COUNTER);
}

function pathway($g2_itemId){
	//first get parent albums
	if (empty($g2_itemId)){
		//return "Gallery Root";
		$g2_itemId = 7;
	}
	list ($ret, $parents) = GalleryCoreApi::fetchParentSequence($g2_itemId);
	$parents[count($parents)+1]=$g2_itemId;
	$g2_s=0;
	//gogogo
	$path = '';
	$extend = "";
	$seperator = " -> ";
	foreach($parents as $items){
	list ($ret,	$item) = GalleryCoreApi::loadEntitiesById($items);
		$title = $item->getTitle() ? $item->getTitle() : $item->getPathComponent();
		//$titles[$item->getId()] = preg_replace('/\r\n/', ' ', $title);
		//print $title . "<BR>";
		//let's switch again
		if($g2_s == 0 AND count($parents) ==1){ //first and last
		
			$path .= $extend.$title;
			$extend = $seperator;
		} elseif($g2_s == 0 AND count($parents) !=1) {// first but not last
		
			$path .= $extend.$title;
			$extend = $seperator;
		} elseif($g2_s == count($parents)-1 AND $g2_s == 1){// second and last
		 
			$path .=$extend.$title;
			$extend = $seperator;
		} elseif($g2_s == count($parents)-1){ // not second but it is last
		
			$path .=$extend.$title;
			$extend = $seperator;
		} elseif($g2_s == 1) {// everything in between
		
			$path .=$extend.$title;
			$extend = $seperator;
		} else {
			$path .=$extend.$title;
			$extend = $seperator;
		}
		$g2_s++;
	}
	if (!empty($_GET['g2_view']))
		if ($_GET['g2_view'] == "imageframe.CSS")
			return "";
		else
			if ($_GET['g2_view'] != "core.ShowItem")
				$path .= " * " . $_GET['g2_view'];
	if (!empty($_GET['g2_subView']))
		$path .= " ~ " . $_GET['g2_subView'];
	return $path;		
}//end pathway function
?>

and then in your config.php include this line

define('GALLERY_MAIN_PHP', 'gallery2.php');

sorry for my dumbness but where can we find config.inc.php? Do we have to create this file?
I plan to use bbclone with G2.

Thanks Steve. I just found out the url too
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:How_to_embed_counter_code_at_the_page_bottom

No, you need to edit the gallery2 config.php not the bbclone config.php.

Steve Lineberry

Anyway to turn off bbclone tracking of admin pages? Currrently using shocksll's way of implementing bbclone will also include my own visits in the admin pages.
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Photography gallery at http://www.kennyyeoh.com

hi,

just installed bbclone in my gallery2...

it works, exept I have lost my theme...

and if i rename gallery2.php to xxxgallery2.php, my theme is back, but no more bbclone recording stats...

how can i solve it ?

i got it, it works, thanks

Maybe check your config.php and make sure this line is in there:

define('GALLERY_MAIN_PHP', 'gallery2.php');

Steve Lineberry

I should add, that an using URL rewrite, and it worked fine with bbclone previousl. I do not have URL rewrite on of admin pages, and they do not trigger bbclone either. I tried deactivating it completely and flushing the caches, but that made no difference.
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