Need to "hide" an album

OK, I need to "hide" an album from viewing.... unless someone knows the exact URL to the album.

1. Is this possible with the standard gallery software? (I'm using the latest nightly build as of yesterday).

2. If not, can someone please instruct me as to where the SQL query is that pulls the albums and shows them on the main page? I just need to add a WHERE clause to the query, if possible.

Thanks!

Jenn

Well, here's the deal.... NO ONE should be able to view it directly from www.newdawncustoms.com/coverage/ (it's the very last album....). EVERYONE should only be able to view it from the direct URL. (Coverage is our events coverage section, but I'm using the gallery to double as a "Member's Vehicles" section as well.

Can you tell me where to find the SQL query? I can make it do what I want if I could find it.

Yes, I see that.... you guys don't make anything easy do you?? :D

I see no SQL queries there in that function, by the way....

So, basically unless I spend the time to de-code the coding structure, I'm SOL....

Is there a way I can modify the Siriux theme to NOT show galleries prior to 2003?? Does this sound feasible?

    function showAlbumPage(&$template, $item, $params, $childIds) {
	$ret = $this->loadCommonTemplateData(
	    $template, $item, $params,
	    array('owner', 'viewCount', 'childCount', 'descendentCount', 'parents',
		  'systemLinks', 'itemLinks', 'itemSummaries', 'permissions',
		  'thumbnails', 'pageNavigator', 'jumpRange'),
	     $childIds);
	if ($ret->isError()) {
	    return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
	}

	/* Override some navigator settings */
	$theme =& $template->getVariableByReference('theme');
	if (isset($theme['navigator']['first'])) {
	    unset($theme['navigator']['first']);
	}
	if (isset($theme['navigator']['last'])) {
	    unset($theme['navigator']['last']);
	}
	$theme['params']['groupByYear'] = !$item->getParentId();

	/* Find the thumbnail size for this album */
	$theme['params']['thumbnailSize'] = 150;
	list ($ret, $preferences) =
	    GalleryCoreApi::fetchDerivativePreferencesForItem($item->getId());
	if ($ret->isError()) {
	    return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
	}
	foreach ($preferences as $preference) {
	    if ($preference['derivativeType'] == DERIVATIVE_TYPE_IMAGE_THUMBNAIL &&
		  preg_match('/thumbnail\|(\d+)/', $preference['derivativeOperations'], $matches)) {
		$theme['params']['thumbnailSize'] =  $matches[1];
		break;
	    }
	}

	return array(GalleryStatus::success(), 'theme.tpl');
    }

I'm so sorry that I'm being so difficult.... but I honestly don't see how to do that.... I really could just put if($item_id != "126875") { around the code that shows the albums.... but unfortunately I'm not entirely sure which code shows them....

OK, now the function looks like this:

    function showAlbumPage(&$template, $item, $params, $childIds) {
	$ret = $this->loadCommonTemplateData(
	    $template, $item, $params,
	    array('owner', 'viewCount', 'childCount', 'descendentCount', 'parents',
		  'systemLinks', 'itemLinks', 'itemSummaries', 'permissions',
		  'thumbnails', 'pageNavigator', 'jumpRange'),
	     $childIds);
	if ($ret->isError()) {
	    return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
	}

	/* Override some navigator settings */
	$theme =& $template->getVariableByReference('theme');
	if (isset($theme['navigator']['first'])) {
	    unset($theme['navigator']['first']);
	}
	if (isset($theme['navigator']['last'])) {
	    unset($theme['navigator']['last']);
	}
	$theme['params']['groupByYear'] = !$item->getParentId();

	/* Find the thumbnail size for this album */
	$theme['params']['thumbnailSize'] = 150;
	list ($ret, $preferences) =
	    GalleryCoreApi::fetchDerivativePreferencesForItem($item->getId());
	if ($ret->isError()) {
	    return array($ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__), null);
	}
	foreach ($preferences as $preference) {
	    if ($preference['derivativeType'] == DERIVATIVE_TYPE_IMAGE_THUMBNAIL &&
		  preg_match('/thumbnail\|(\d+)/', $preference['derivativeOperations'], $matches)) {
		$theme['params']['thumbnailSize'] =  $matches[1];
		break;
	    }
	}
/* Override the Member Vehicles Album so it doesn't show */
foreach ($theme['children'] as $id => $child) {
    if ($id == '12867') {
        unset($theme['children'][$id]);
    }
}
	return array(GalleryStatus::success(), 'theme.tpl');
    }

And it's not working.....

Please see http://www.newdawncustoms.com/coverage/

Click to page 3. The last album (Member Vehicles) I do not want to show on the main page. It's ID is 12867. Or, I set the year to 2002, so if we could not show any albums with the "creationdate" as anything in 2002.

On page one, it lists 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 etc..... up to as many album that show.... on page three it says 0, 1 (since there are only two albums listed).

I added print "$id <br />"; underneath the foreach() function.

PERFECT! Thank you SOOOOO much! I'll try and remember all this for next time I need to change something..... lol.

You're fantastic.

Yes, as soon as 2.1 is released I'm certain I will upgrade and use the real feature, but for now this is good!

the hide feature is already available in nightly snapshots of g2. go get it...
g2.1 will be released on march 1st (tentative release date).

it's not quite the same.
of course you can hide something behind a "door / mountain". but if you don't want to use a non-public album just as obstacle to hide things behind it (e.g. because you don't want longer URLs), then the hidden items module is what you want.

install and activate the module.
then go to a album, click edit album and there set the password at the bottom.

obviously there's no such mass hide option. just hide the whole album..
you can of course file feature requests on http://sf.net/projects/gallery/ -> RFE