[Question] Gallery 2 embedding in our own CMS

You dont need any smart knowledge, or create any template to embedd Gallery. Gallery uses smarty for it's internal template engine. The embedded class handles Gallery requests and return the raw xhtml as a string for you to display in your CMS. The only Gallery class you should be concered with is GalleryEmbed (modules/core/classes/GalleryEmbed.class). In your 'view_page.php' you include embed.php and call GalleryEmbed::init(...) or other methods of that class.

I dont know if we yet support more than one CMS per Gallery, but since you don't want users for the normal view I think it might be possible. Valiant is the embed wiz, he might straighten this one out for you. All I know is that if you plan to use URL Rewrite (short URLs) you have to set the param 'embedPath' when calling GalleryEmbed::init() for both embedded versions.

This seems to be working thanks for the fast replies!

Indeed in the normal view I only want to show a basic version of gallery2 without any login or memberlist functions.
I do think that I want indeed two diffrent templates for each view. The view files will be two different files like view_page.php and edit_page.php. Can't I define which template to use in each of those files?

I still have some trouble but this seems more like a general bug. When I include gallery everything seems to be working okay. I can view albums and pictures. But when I'm viewing a single picture and I click on the gallery link just below the Welcome, Guest I get an error

Welcome, Guest

    * Gallery <-- this one
    * Picturename

Error:
Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /blablabla/webroot/view_page.php:3) in /blablabla/webroot/gallery2/main.php on line 460

Perhaps this is caused by some wrong paths or something in the init function but the other stuff seems to work so I doubt it... look into this tomorrow.

Thanks for you replies! Things are working quite nicely now.. the only two problems I encountered where the following.

1. When I link our CMS login with the gallery2 login this works for added users. But when I try to do the same for the gallery2 admin user I get an error from the "GalleryEmbed::init" function. Perhaps you guys simply don't allow admin login in the embed mode..?

2. When I want to use some of the java functions, for instance the slideshow or the upload applet, I get an error because those applets think that gallery is installed in the same path where the embed "view_page.php" is located. This leads to some errors. I've set the paths correctly in the init function and except for the java applets everything seems to work okay. Even file upload with php...

- san

Hi,

I just installed beta 4 and I must admit that I'm impressed. The code I write looks so simple compared to yours ;) I do have a question about the search function in gallery2. Something like this would be nice for a site I'm designing. I was wondering if I can use the searchbar from the sidebar without using the actual sidebar or do I need to use the search functions provided in GalleryEmbed.class. And if I do the latter how can I get the actual image / album from the array. I know I get the "itemID" in the array but I'm a bit clueless how to use this to link to the album or show the albumpreview. Perhaps you have some pointers.

Btw I think I found a bug in the "Site Admin" -> "Blocks" -> "Random/Popular" page. When I choose some "Image blocks" and press save the page says that the settings are saved but the result is a list with unselected selectboxes so I guess stuff isn't saved.

Cheers,
san aka s.smid

Thanks for your fast reply once again. I've now updated to the lastest version (RC1) but for some reason the code you posted doesn't seem to work. I changed it a bit but the general idea is the same. The file I included this code is a page that has the gallery2 init function and works with showing albums and pictures. The only thing that goes wrong is searching.

This is my code ($array[$key]['itemId'] is the itemId of a found item):

global $gallery;					
$urlGenerator = $gallery->getUrlgenerator;
$url = $urlGenerator->generateUrl(array('itemId' => $array[$key]['itemId'], 'view' => 'core.DownloadItem'));
echo $url;

The error I get is:
Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /opt/guide/www.blablabla.com/somepath/myCMS/modules/view_gallery2.php on line 170

I'm not sure if this is a bug in gallery2 or if it's a mistake on my side. I hope you guys can help me out.

Thanks in advantage,
san

Well I got this going.. I get the results of my search and from the images I can show already an image. Now I have a problem with albums. How can I determine if the result is an album or an image. And if it's an album is there a way to get the selected highlight (the album preview picture)? I haven't seen it in the "GalleryAlbumItem" documentation ( http://gallery.menalto.com/modules/GalleryAPI/apidoc/GalleryCore/Classes/GalleryAlbumItem_core.html )

Cheers,
san

@headers:
should be fixed in tomorrows nightly snapshot.

I'm still trying to get the highlighted galleryPhotoItem from an album but I clueless how to get it. I seached though quite a few files which appeared to have something to do with this "galleryalbumitem". I tried galleryalbumitem_core class, some parent classes, the helper dir with the filesystem files but all without any luck. When I print_r out the object I get the following but none of it seem to link to a PhotoItem or something like that. I hope you can, once more, help me out here.

galleryalbumitem Object
(
    [_theme] => 
    [_orderBy] => 
    [_orderDirection] => asc
    [_canContainChildren] => 1
    [_description] => 
    [_keywords] => 
    [_ownerId] => 16
    [_summary] => Serie over asielzoekers op Ameland.
    [_title] => Allemaal Amelanders
    [_viewedSinceTimestamp] => 1122462350
    [_originationTimestamp] => 1122462350
    [_pathComponent] => Allemaal Amelanders
    [_id] => 131
    [_creationTimestamp] => 1122462350
    [_isLinkable] => 0
    [_linkId] => 
    [_linkedEntity] => 
    [_modificationTimestamp] => 1122463090
    [_serialNumber] => 4
    [_entityType] => GalleryAlbumItem
    [_onLoadHandlers] => 
    [_persistentStatus] => stdClass Object
        (
            [flags] => 0
            [modified] => Array
                (
                )

            [originalValue] => Array
                (
                )

        )

    [_parentId] => 7
)

Thanks,
san

PS. I'm not sure if anyone is interessted but I've written my own random image function for gallery2 which can return an array loaded with, all diffrent, (photo)items. If you'd like the source I'd be a happy to share

Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /blablabla/webroot/view_page.php:3) in /blablabla/webroot/gallery2/main.php on line 460

there was also a g2 issue involved which could have been the reason for that warning, that's what i mean with @headers.