Random block with no fopen(url)
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personman
Joined: 2005-01-04
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Posted: Fri, 2005-09-16 12:34
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I used to use the random photo block and I loved it, then I switched webhosts and the new host doesn't allow fopen() or include() with an url. I can't use a disk path because the blog and the gallery are on different servers. Dreamost docs say that cURL can be used instead. Has anyone run into this problem and found a workaround? Is there a way to call the random image using cURL rather than @readfile()? Thanks. |
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yes, it works with curl:
(using forum search leads to) darn, can't find anything with the search function.
but yes, someone posted about 6 month ago how to do it with curl.
i've searched for curl and restricted the search to the g2 forums, didn't get anything useful. maybe someone else has more luck.
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This did the trick:
<?php
$ch = curl_init();
$timeout = 5; // set to zero for no timeout
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.personman.com/gallery/main.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage&g2_show=title');
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout);
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);
echo $file_contents;
?>
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can you edit your post? i just see an empty quote.
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Sorry about that. It's fixed now.
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thanks a lot for sharing!
i've added it to:
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:How_To_Use_The_External_Image_Block_When_url_fopen_Is_Disabled
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is there a way to use @readfile() with a return instead of an echo?
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no.
on the same server, you can also use GalleryEmbed::getImageBlock() which of course return and doesn't echo.
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but how do I return just the random image and not the whole array? like the curl and @readfile above?
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you mean you just want the url, not more? that would be a (popular) feature request for the getImageBlock function.
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On my site I use the curl random image block, to point to my Geeklog G2 integration package with a url of /GL_Gallery2/index.php?g2_view=imageblock.External&g2_blocks=randomImage, but my problem is that not all geeklog owners will have curl enabled and the @readfile echos and not returns putting the image at the top of the page.
So I want to extract just the random photo from the imageblock(not the search, and dhtml tree actions... that stuff comes later)Kinda like the G1 random photo block.
I call the entire imageblock inside gallery (sidebarBlocksHtml).
Otherwise my homepage gets too crowded, that sidebar is huge with all the features enabled.
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so this is actually about the sidebar blocks?
search, dhtml album tree,. ... are not image blocks. these are just blocks that happen to be in your sidebar.
what i recommend:
- take a look at GalleryEmbed docs/EMBEDDING
- use GalleryEmbed::getImageBlock() for imageblocks
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Hi Guys,
I have fopen_url ON but my host disabled "http request back to the same server". Does that say anything to you? Any ideas how to solve this?
TIA!
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If you have same problem like me use: mod_g2bridge_image_v2.7.zip or later version from here: http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/gallery2_bridge/frs/