Is there way force users to register to view inside album?

Hi

I want to be able to force users to register to view the items in an album.
I want the user to see the albums but then if they click into the album, a message will appear that says they must register to view photos or comments.

Is there an easy good way to do this?

It is a really cool feature because i want to see who is viewing my albums and I don't want a bunch of unknown guests posting comments.

Thanks

I see what you are saying.
Just have permissions for Everybody to see album thumbnails.
And then have permissions for Registered Users to see full size photos or go to login page if not registered.

I think this would be very popular.
I hope this is on their future functionality because its dang cool.

thanks for the code but the code does not seem to change anything. I did not see any difference. Am I doing something wrong? When I am logged in as a guest and click into pics, I can still see full size view.

I did try this also which seem to work- I set the Everybody permission to just View Item and set for registered users View All Versions. In this way, anon users can only see thumbnails even when they click on a thumbnail. If they were registered user- they could view the full size version. It woud be nice if they were prompted to register to see full size views.

Great- I will do what you say and see if it works for me

sorry, don't know what to say.. it works for me, so there's either a problem with the permissions or the patch isn't applied correctly. do you have any permissions assigned directly to guest user?

yes, we did decide to add this for G2.0 final.. it's in cvs now, you can get it in tomorrow's nightly build.

"Everybody view all versions" is wrong. just view.

I applied the above mentioned changes some weeks ago. I work very fine. Thank you!

Now I updated to the final release. The feature does not work anymore and I had to enter the changes again. Did you decide not to add this feature it to the final version?

Ok, thanks for the information. It is easy to add the few lines of codes to make it work even in the latest version, now I know how to do it.

I believe this is the post he's referring to: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/35288#comment-128874
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Is this patch working with the current release, or is there an alternate fix?

I've applied the patch and permissions as described - but rather than taking the user to a registration page, it's just stating that the album is empty (same as if patch wasn't applied). Maybe I edited the code incorrectly - here's what I've got:

/* Make sure we have permission to view this item */
if ($ret->isSuccess() && $item->getCanContainChildren()) {
/* We also need viewSource permission to see the contents of an album */
$ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.viewSource');
}
$ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.view');
if ($ret->isError()) {
if ($ret->getErrorCode() & ERROR_PERMISSION_DENIED) {
list ($ret2, $anonymousId) = GalleryCoreApi::getPluginParameter(

I've set the root album permissions (and all subs) to:

Everybody : None

I then went down the "chain" to an actual album, assigning throughout (without subs):

Everybody: View Item

Everything works until I get to the final album (which has also been set without subs to Everybody: View Item) - but no thumbnails are presented, only "No Items".

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong, or if this no longer works. Thanks for any help.

Mindless,

Thanks for replying so quickly - I'm sorry I haven't responded sooner. I forgot that the forum doesn't have notification.

I've reset the code as follows:

/* Make sure we have permission to view this item */
$ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.view');
if ($ret->isSuccess() && $item->getCanContainChildren()) {
/* We also need viewSource permission to see the contents of an album */
$ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.viewSource');
}

if ($ret->isError()) {
if ($ret->getErrorCode() & ERROR_PERMISSION_DENIED) {

I also set permissions as indicated:

Everyone: No Permissions (empty)

I issued that through the root album, checking the box to apply that to all sub-items.

I then set permissions to:

Everyone: View Item

With the sub-items box not checked, following down the chain, applying this to the album I had created with images in it and stopping. There is only one album with images at the moment, 3 levels down. Root > Parent > Parent > Images

But I am now being sent to the registration page on any attempt to visit the forum as a non-registered member.

Thanks very much for any help.

when embedded we expect that you'll use CMS login/registration and the embed module uses the G2 embed api appropriately.
the above patch should not affect image block at all, but perhaps you changed your item permissions such that images are not accessible.

Still a no go. Also, I'm testing this approach with the gallery as a standalone, not integrated with the CMS. I'm hoping that if I can get this approach to work, I can switch out the redirect to suit my purposes?
Here's where I'm at - which is prompting the "This album is empty." message when attempting to view the album.

Root --> Everyone: core[View all versions] : Box checked for apply changes to sub-items
Parent --> Everyone: core[View all versions] : Box checked for apply changes to sub-items
Image Album --> Everyone: Removed : Box checked for apply changes to sub-items

This results in the Parent album displaying "This album is empty."

Attempting, with initial settings above:

Image Album --> Everyone: core[View all version] : Box not checked for applying changes

This results in the Album displaying "This album is empty."

Attempting, with initial settings above:

Image Album --> Everyone: core[View item] : Box checked for applying changes

This results in Album thumbnails being displayed, and thumbnail being displayed when user clicks on thumbnail.

Attempting, with initial settings above:

Image Album --> Everyone: core[View item] : Box checked for applying changes
Image Album [Step 2] --> Everyone: Removed : Box not checked for applying changes

This ALSO results in Album thumbnails being displayed, and thumbnail being displayed when user clicks on thumbnail. HOWEVER, when navigating backwards to the Parent album, the Parent album displayed "This album is empty."

At this point, I became utterly confused and shot myself in the head

FINALLY, I gave this a shot, based again on the intial settings:

Image Album --> Everyone: core[View all versions] : Box checekd for applying changes
Individual Image --> Remove Everyone

At which point, just the individual image disappeared from the album.

This led me to believe that I've done something horribly wrong - my code is the same as the fixed code posted above.

For whatever reason, Gallery2 seems to be ignoring that code completely, treating the permissions on the parent album as THE permissions, and not looking to the children (as the code seems to be attempting?) for permissions.

At any rate, I think I've tried every possible combination here and I can not get the system to work on the latest release of Gallery2? Maybe there's some code lurking elsewhere (given this code was put in and removed at one point) that's negating this code?

And please don't take this as thought I'm questioning the validity of the code or Gallery2 - just wondering if there might be a chance that something has occurred along the way that broke the ability of this patch to work?

Also, thanks to some good advice - I now have my account set up to monitor the topic here, so hopefully I'll respond much sooner Doh.

Thanks.

Ahhh... well that wouldn't work anyway - particularly with the inability to display the images in the image blocks.

Is there any way to restrict guests to thumbnail views only AND when clicking through to view the thumbnail, prompt them with a message that reads "Please register to view full-size photo".

Sorry for all of the bother. It's too bad, though, that the attempt to incorporate this into the core didn't go over

It'd be really nice to allow people to view thumbnails, and - realizing that when people click a thumbnail, they don't wish to see the same thumbnail, prompt for some action (registration or otherwise) to allow for viewing of the full-size photo.

Is there a way to just reroute the "view item" page to check to see if it's attempting to display a thumbnail image, and then redirect if that's the case?

Thanks for any help - and sorry for the two part question

I was just thinking that prompting users to register with a text link accompanying the thumbnail in image view would be easier to implement than the alternative.

SUHWEET!!!!!!!!
You had to go and make me think Whenever I see code, I just automatically blank out.
I adjusted the permissions and made the edit you prescribed and BAM -
Michiel (the developer of the Joomla integration) already had the integration set up to deal with this permissions situation.
So within the CMS, a user clicks on the thumbnail and immediately gets routed to the CMS registration page (or any other page I want to set up for the purpose).
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!! But my head did explode from thinking about code

For anyone else trying to pull this one off real quick, look at the line directly above mindless' patch:

/* Make sure we have permission to view this item */
$ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.view');

Change this out to read:

/* Make sure we have permission to view this item */
$ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.viewSource');

THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

i downt anderstand that ...
did it worke now ?
what file i must edit and how to do?
i whant that everybody can see the gallerys preview picture and whan everybody click on it there come the register forum not only the small preview picture

i downt anderstand that

yes that i now but i downt anderstand the permissions to set i must edit it on every new pic ?!?
i cant edit the permission the page downt whant to load ...
where can i edit it manuel wich file...

i have on everybody [core] View all versions but i cant edit it whan i use remove it make Nothing only a white page come and no message or somthing... whan i klick reloade ii always "everybody [core] View all versions"...
whats wrong ?

^Jadmanx, i had the same "white page" problem as well. The problem seems to be in how you patch your "showitem.inc". Make sure the lines of copied and pasted exactly from Mindless' code. I had some comments in there through the patch that ended up screwing the whole thing over (not much of a coder, i am).

Apparently as well, even if i set the Permissions for EVERYBODY to [core] View ALL Versions, I'm STILL being redirected to a login page when i try to access the gallery (when i'm not logged in).

Any help? Thanks.

try rolling back the patch and sorting out the permissions, then reapply the patch.

yes, those are the permissions to set on the albums where you want login required. if you set that on your root album then login is required to see that album too.

Does this patch no longer work on the Blackjack release of the code?

have reapplied and permissions are the same, yet it lets me straight into the galleries

any help would be great

        /* Make sure we have permission to view this item */
        $ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.viewSource');
+       if ($ret->isSuccess() && $item->getCanContainChildren()) {
+           /* We also need viewSource permission to see the contents of an album */
+           $ret = GalleryCoreApi::assertHasItemPermission($item->getId(), 'core.viewSource');
+       }
        if ($ret) {
            if ($ret->getErrorCode() & ERROR_PERMISSION_DENIED) {
                list ($ret2, $anonymousId) = GalleryCoreApi::getPluginParameter(

Mindless, this is the new code per your instructions? I'm not seeing GalleryStatus::error anywhere?

What does "anywhere" mean?

done as the above comments suggested, now instead of an error message, i get a blank white screen?

any ideas?