Adding Login Box / User Menu Outside G2

I currently have a site that is mainly powered by Gallery2. There are however a few pages that are just static content outside of G2.

In my sites header ( at least when in gallery 2 ) I have the login box, that is then replaced with the user menu once the user is logged in. The problem is when a user navigates away from the gallery2 section into the static .html pages this login box disappears. This looks rather odd as the gallery has been formatted to fit well into the rest of the site, so something just vanishing from the header may be a bit confusing for users.

Is there anyway to incorporate the login box outside of gallery2? I've looked at embedding but it seems a little overkill?

At very basic I'll settle for copying the login box html, and a link to the users album, and just make a custom cookie detection to see if a user is logged in, but surely theres a better way I'm just not thinking of?

Thanks in advance.

This is a snippet from an example I called g2_html_segments_example

<?php
require_once ('embed.php'); // Path to Gallery's embed.php
$ret = GalleryEmbed::init(array('g2Uri'=>'/gallery2/', 'embedUri'=>'/gallery2/main.php', 'fullInit'=>'false'));
if ($ret) {
    print $ret->getAsHtml();
}
$gallery->setConfig('showSidebarBlocks', false); // you can hide the sidebarblocks in fact you must to use $g2data['sidebarBlocksHtml']
$gallery->setConfig('login', true); // you can allow for login if you want
//$gallery->setConfig('defaultAlbumId', 1400); // set the default home album
$g2data = GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();
if ($g2data['isDone']) {
    exit;
}
GalleryEmbed::done();
?>
<!-- Gallery's headHtml --><h1>$g2data['headHtml']</h1>
You'll have to view source for the headHtml.
<?php echo $g2data['headHtml']; ?>
<!-- End Gallery's headHtml --><!-- Gallery's bodyHtml --><h1>$g2data['bodyHtml']</h1>
<?php echo $g2data['bodyHtml']; ?>
<!-- End Gallery's bodyHtml --><!-- Gallery's sidebarBlocksHtml --><h1>$g2data['sidebarBlocksHtml']</h1>
<?php
foreach ($g2data['sidebarBlocksHtml'] as $snippet) {
    echo $snippet;
}
?>
<!-- End Gallery's sidebarBlocksHtml -->

in particular it shows you how to separate the different html returned by gallery to use how you want.
But as Alec points out it requires booting up gallery per request.
If you get interested in embedding here is a handy tool.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

Hmmm, little tricker than I first thought.

I've got the gallery embedded fine. This is quite a tailored install of gallery2 I've got for this site. It currently doesn't use the sidebar, which appears ( with that embed code above ) to be the only place to isolate certain 'elements'. My login area is included from theme.tpl as follows:

{if $user.isRegisteredUser}

{g->block type="core.SystemLinks"order="core.YourAccount core.Login core.Logout" othersAt=4}

{else}
<p><strong>looking for your photo album?</strong> <a href="" id="open-login">find it here</a></p>

<div id="login-box">
{g->block type="core.LoginBlock" }
</div>

{/if}

What I could do (and tried successfully) is just include the login box in the sidebar and output that and hide it from my main gallery view, only showing in the embed version, however then I don't get the options of Show menu if logged in, without customising the main login block.. Which wouldn't be the end of the world I suppose.

An ideal situation would be to wrap my static html files in my theme.tpl but since bodyHTML returns the entire album display this doesn't seem possible?

Apologies if this seems like a stream of consciousness, helps me think lol

If your login block is in your sidebar, you'd need to know which positions its in to display just the login block ie.
echo $g2data['sidebarBlocksHtml'][2];
if the login block was in the third position.

-s
FlashYourWeb and Your Gallery with The E2 XML Media Player for Gallery2

Don't be troubled by the thought of creating a module. It needs to consist only of one file - a module.inc file, and that only needs about 10 standard lines.
See for instance: http://gallery.menalto.com/node/91847#comment-324342 - a complete module+event-handler in one file.