Gallery 2 with custom authentication/migration from eMalbum

darrenkemp

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Posted: Wed, 2009-09-09 14:50

Hello,

I have been tasked with migrating an old emAlbum gallery to a new gallery 2 installation. Has anyone undertaken this task? I have to:

a) integrate with existing authentication system (mysql based) so that users will be sent to a "not logged in page" if they arrive at the gallery page with incorrect or no credentials (they will have logged in before reaching the gallery).

b) migrate several 100 images with long descriptions in a flat file format into a gallery 2 structure.

If anyone has any suggestions or a good starting point for me to look i'd appreciate it.

Thanks!

Darren
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floridave
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Posted: Wed, 2009-09-09 23:41

@migration: http://codex.gallery2.org/Other_Clients#Tools_that_can_export_photos_to_Gallery I don't recall seeing a script to add items with meta data in a flat file.

Dave
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nivekiam
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Posted: Thu, 2009-09-10 23:43

Looks like the community plugin Bulk Upload (sorry no documentation on it) might work.

See Site Admin > Plugins > Get More Plugins, make sure you're loading the community repository and download the Bulk Upload module.

Then go like you are adding items, there is a Bulk Upload option and that has links to 2 sample files, a csv and an excel file.
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floridave
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Posted: Fri, 2009-09-11 01:59
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(sorry no documentation on it)

Its a shame that the community develops a module and does not document it. Then the users wonder why they can't find a feature or know what it does.

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nivekiam
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Posted: Fri, 2009-09-11 16:44

Everything I can see appears that Bharat developed that module :)
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darrenkemp

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Posted: Mon, 2009-09-14 14:09

Thanks much to all of you for the migration information. However without any real way to use a separate authentication system I would not be able to use gallery. Has anyone done any work on this module or is it all still future planned?

Thanks again

Darren
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nivekiam
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Posted: Mon, 2009-09-14 14:25

No future plans for G2, none at all :)

However, G2 is integrated with many apps and can do this. I've never done it and can only point you to this:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Embedding

Take a look at an existing integration for sample:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Integration

All new work is being done on G3, though right now without someone writing a module or changing code it's not possible to integrate G3 like that.
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