Will I need two gallery2 installations to do this?

First, thanks for this incredible software.

My situation is this, I have Gallery2 beta 2 up and running great. in my gallery2 I have a photo album and an art/portfolio album. I want to be able to have my normal Gallery2 install and be able to (From my home page) call just the art/portfolio section into a frame in my home page. I want the portfolio section when it is called up this way to not have a sidebar.

I wonder if this is possible.

Thanks for any help.

Thanks for your help, sorry for being such a newb. I have put the code you gave me in a new portfolio.php page and called it from the home page but it only displays text.

I am studying the EMBEDDING doc and will try to learn more.

I am getting this error now.

This is the code I have put in portfolio.php

<?php
include('/home/tomnelne/.panel/web/gallery2/embed.php');
GalleryEmbed::init(array('embedUri' => 'portfolio.php', 'embedPath' => '', 'relativeG2Path' => '/home/tomnelne/.panel/web/gallery2', 'activeUserId' => ''));
// deactivate sidebar etc.
GalleryCapabilities::set('showSidebar', false);
GalleryCapabilities::set("'showSidebarGreeting',false);
GalleryCapabilities::set('showPathbar', false);
// set it up such that the specific G2 subalbum is shown
$showItem = GalleryUtilities::getRequestVariables('view');
if (empty($showItem)) {
    GalleryUtilities::putRequestVariable('view', 'core:ShowItem');
    // set the correct itemId of the album, CHANGE THIS
    GalleryUtilities::putRequestVariable('itemId', '14');
}
// now render the html
$g2data = GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();
// and display it in your home page
print $g2data['bodyHtml'];
// you could also integrate the css and javascript from G2 with GalleryEmbed::parseHead($g2data['headHtml'])
}
?>

It seems the line it is having trouble with is

print $g2data['bodyHtml'];

OK I found the error that was making the page not load, the page is loading now but there is no style/theme applied to the page just the thumbnails on a white page and basic black text. also, when I click on one of the albums it goes back to the default G2 page with the sidebar and everything. shouldn't it keep the settings of the first embedded page?

Thanks again

tomnel,
1. what's the itemId of the portfolio album?
2. relativeG2Path is wrong. you entered an absolute path.
- what's the url to portfolio.php
- what's the url to standalone G2?

i made assumptions about these values which are incorrect. please answer the questions, then i can make this script working.

<?php

/* Path to embed.php of G2 */
$includePath = dirname(__FILE__) . '/gallery2/embed.php';
/* path in url to this script, i.e. for example.com/portfolio.php it would be '/'
 * and for example.com/foo/bar.php it would be '/foo/' */
$embedPath = '/';
/* relativeG2Path is the relative path from portfolio to gallery 2 */
$relativeG2Path = './gallery2/';
/* ItemId of the item / album that should be shown */
$itemId = '14';
/* name of this script, you don't have to change this */
$scriptName = substr(__FILE__, strlen(dirname(__FILE__) . '/'));

include($includePath);
GalleryEmbed::init(array('embedUri' => $scriptName, 'embedPath' => $embedPath,
			 'relativeG2Path' => $relativeG2Path, 'activeUserId' => ''));
// deactivate sidebar etc.
GalleryCapabilities::set('showSidebar', false);
GalleryCapabilities::set('showSidebarGreeting',false);
// GalleryCapabilities::set('showPathbar', false);
// set it up such that the specific G2 subalbum is shown
$showItem = GalleryUtilities::getRequestVariables('view');
if (empty($showItem)) {
    GalleryUtilities::putRequestVariable('view', 'core:ShowItem');
    // set the correct itemId of the album, CHANGE THIS
    GalleryUtilities::putRequestVariable('itemId', $itemId);
}
// now render the html
$g2data = GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();

// show error message if isDone is not defined
if (!isset($g2data['isDone'])) {
    print 'isDone is not defined, something very bad must have happened.';
    exit;
}
// die if it was a binary data (image) request
if ($g2data['isDone']) {
    exit; /* uploads module does this too */
}
   
// put the body html from G2 into the xaraya template
$data['bodyHtml'] = isset($g2data['bodyHtml']) ? $g2data['bodyHtml'] : '';
// get the page title, javascript and css links from the <head> html from G2
if (isset($g2data['headHtml'])) {
    list($title, $css, $javascript) = GalleryEmbed::parseHead($g2data['headHtml']);
}
$data['title'] = !empty($title) ? $title : '';
$data['css']  = isset($css) && is_array($css) ? implode('\n', $css) : '';
?>

<html>
<head>
<title><?php print $data['title']; ?> </title>
<?php print $data['css']; ?>

</head>
<body>

<?php print $data['bodyHtml']; ?>

</body>
</html>

this code still doesn't work, because of the wrong itemId and relativePath etc.
but it's more complete.

edit: i've updated the code. it works for me, but it might not be what you want. we'll see.

then replace the lines with the following:

/* Path to embed.php of G2 */
$includePath = dirname(__FILE__) . '/gallery2/embed.php';
/* path in url to this script, i.e. for example.com/portfolio.php it would be '/'
* and for example.com/foo/bar.php it would be '/foo/' */
$embedPath = '/v-web/';
/* relativeG2Path is the relative path from portfolio to gallery 2 */
$relativeG2Path = './gallery2/';
/* ItemId of the item / album that should be shown */
$itemId = '100';

assuming that your portfolio.php is in tomnel.net/v-web/portfolio.php

remember that you don't have to include the css from G2, you can set your own css instead.
and you can change the look of G2 to match your portfolio.php page.

tomnel, my code assumed you have the url rewrite module deactivated. in that case, it would would. try it yourself. i guess we could it also get to work with url rewrite enabled...

i assumed the portfolio.php was in /v-web/ and not in /v-web/gallery2/
either move the file or change the paths

/* Path to embed.php of G2 */
$includePath = dirname(__FILE__) . '/embed.php';
/* path in url to this script, i.e. for example.com/portfolio.php it would be '/'
* and for example.com/foo/bar.php it would be '/foo/' */
$embedPath = '/v-web/gallery2';
/* relativeG2Path is the relative path from portfolio to gallery 2 */
$relativeG2Path = '';

if you have the file at
http://tomnel.net/v-web/gallery2/portfolio.php

embedPath:
then the path to the file is '/v-web/gallery2/'. this is the embedPath.

relativeG2Path:
the path from http://tomnel.net/v-web/gallery2/ to http://tomnel.net/v-web/gallery2/
this is '' = relativeG2Path

/* Path to embed.php of G2 */
$includePath = dirname(__FILE__) . '/embed.php';
/* path in url to this script, i.e. for example.com/portfolio.php it would be '/'
* and for example.com/foo/bar.php it would be '/foo/' */
$embedPath = '/gallery2/';
/* relativeG2Path is the relative path from portfolio to gallery 2 */
$relativeG2Path = '/v-web/gallery2';
/* ItemId of the item / album that should be shown */
$itemId = '100';

Link to page

http://tomnel.net/v-web/gallery2/portfolio.php

Thanks, it works now.