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Hello,

I have a gallery2 install on www.walnut-grove.co.uk/gallery2 that requires users to log-in to access the main album.

Can I still use the WPG2 plugin to display some pictures from my gallery2 to my blog? Or do I need to have at least one album viewable by all to do that?

Thanks,
David

Thanks capt_kirk.

I don't want my family pictures to be viewable to all that's why you need to login to access any album in my gallery.

However I want to be able to include pictures coming from my gallery in a post on my blog from time to time.

I did think about having one public album but I was hoping that with this plugin I could avoit it by e.g. providing login/password details f my gallery to the WPG2 plugin so that it can connect to my gallery and access pictures directly when required.

Is having a public album my only option?

Hope it makes sense.
Thanks.

ok thanks - I'm not that good with PHP unfortunately. ;)
Appreciate the time you took to respond.
have a nice week-end.

Hello - just checking if by any chance you had the time to look into it.
Thanks

I have already quite a few users with their own account... could I still make it work somehow using both permissions and password protection?

Thanks

so does that mean i need to add guest access to all my family albums but add a password protection?
What would that mean for my registered users? Would they need the password as well?

Thanks

esieens,

Sorry for the delay. It was actually much easier than I thought it would be, once I really looked at the code.

1. Make a new WordPress user, something like gallery_viewer.

2. Note the ID that WordPress assigns to that user.

3. Make that WordPress user a "G2 User" under WP Admin -> Users -> Gallery2 Users.

4. Change line 83 of wpg2embed.inc (global $user_ID;) so that the part of the code that looked like this

function g2_login() {
	// Get WPG2 Option Settings
	$wpg2_option = get_option('wpg2_options');
	global $user_ID;

now looks like this

function g2_login() {
	// Get WPG2 Option Settings
	$wpg2_option = get_option('wpg2_options');
	$user_ID = 3;

where the "3" in the example is the user ID that you noted in step 2.

This will always use that fictional user to log into G2. You can set your G2 permissions around that user.

It also means that you'll have to do all of your G2 site admin in stand-alone mode, since you won't be able to get to site admin from any of your WP users' accounts.

Kirk
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I'm still not able to see my pictures, check:-
http://www.walnut-grove.co.uk/blog/?page_id=166

WPG2 validates fine.

I also tried to use the Image Chooser and I don't seem to be able to browse any sub-album. I can only see my top gallery but cannot expand it.

Any idea?

Thanks

I have had a look at the code - I cannot see where the link is being generated when the function to create the gridblock is called. I'd like to change that function so that no link is created (basically creating a randon image gridblock with no link).

Thanks.

ok thanks - any idea why the link being generated right now does not give me access to the picture but a blank page?

Anyway - Many thanks for your help it was much appreciated and I'm really pretty close to what I wanted to do so this is really great.

That's not an error. It's what G2 does when it doesn't know how to sychronize cookies with the embedding platform.

Please see this link in the FAQ for syncronizing your cookies. It will fix the link, and will probably fix the overall problem.

Kirk
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G2Image Documentation, G2Image Demo Page, My Family Website

Oh, yeah, sorry. I read it too quickly, seeing only the GALLERYSID part and not the part about you already following the FAQ...

That's really strange. Since your blog is at /blog/ and your gallery is at /gallery2/, setting it to / in the Gallery2 cookies section should work.

Another user reported the same problem here, but in the next post said that it started working correctly after some time. I'm thinking that maybe the template cache is storing the old links. Please try clearing it out by going to Gallery2 -> Site Admin -> Maintenance and clicking on "run now" next to "Delete template cache."

Kirk
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G2Image Documentation, G2Image Demo Page, My Family Website

Yes, please turn on debugging. Instructions here.

No pain. Just wish it were working...

Kirk
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G2Image Documentation, G2Image Demo Page, My Family Website

I think something else has gone wrong. I'm seeing multiple errors on your blog page. Some look related to WPG2 not being active, but many others too. Are you working on it, or is there another problem?

It's also interesting that I'm seeing debug output on your gallery2 standalone page here, but not when it's embedded here.

Maybe Ozgreg has seen this before?

Kirk
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G2Image Documentation, G2Image Demo Page, My Family Website

I turned off PHP reporting by setting error_reporting = 0 in my php.ini.
No difference unfortunately.

My blog is two years old so has been upgraded frpm 1.5 to 2.3 same for my gallery bu so far it has worked reliably.

The only error I could find related to WPG2 was in the gridblock on the block sidebar:-
Notice: Undefined variable: g2_isalbum in D:\xampp\htdocs\blog\wp-content\plugins\wpg2\wpg2embed.inc on line 1107

I have turned off the gallery debug so that it does not impact my users during the day but can turn it back on tonight.

Thanks

Thanks - the error showing in the gridblock is gone!
Still no luck with the picture attached in my post or with the the Image Gallery Chooser.
I've left the debug on in case you want to have another look at it.
Thanks.

It's great that it's working. Maybe the errors were being cached.

Let us know if it stops working again.

Kirk
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G2Image Documentation, G2Image Demo Page, My Family Website

It got broken again... ;(

I guess this is to do with cookies and sessions.
Any idea?

Thanks.

I have logged in as admin in WP - no difference.
I have the changed the code - as per details previously provided above - to login as the WP/WG2 admin (userID=1) ,it made no difference either.

To be honest I cannot remember how I set my gallery permissions. Done it two years ago so that you are asked to login automatically - no guest accounts.

Is there anything in particular you want me to check in the gallery admin page?

Thanks