Prevent albums from being listed for unregistered users

kamroot

Joined: 2009-11-23
Posts: 3
Posted: Fri, 2009-11-27 22:12

Hi

First of all, I have have to say that I am completely blown away with Gallery3 beta 2. Thanks for the great work.

I am trying from unregistered users to see the list of albums. That way I can sent links to the albums to friends etc who can only see the album that they were sent the link to. I could not find any way of doing that. I am stop them from viewing the album but that is not what I am looking to do.

If there is something obvious that I have missed, I apologize. Though if not, I would appreciate if someone would point me in the right direction.

Thanks again for gallery3.

 
floridave
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Posted: Fri, 2009-11-27 22:40
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Gallery3 beta 2.

We are at Beta3 and have made even more improvements in our experimental version:
FAQ: How do I upgrade?

I am unsure as to your request. Can you eplain a bit more of what you are after?

Dave
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kamroot

Joined: 2009-11-23
Posts: 3
Posted: Fri, 2009-11-27 22:49

Thanks for the reply Dave. Sorry I typo'ed the beta version. I am actually on beta 3.

Here is a bit more elaborate problem statement (hopefully I was clearer this time).

I have say 5 albums. I want to email the URLs to each one of them out to some of my friends. Say album 1 to friends A, B, C and album 2 to friends C, D and E. I do not want friends D and E to see album 1 and similarly I do not want friend A and B to see album 2. None of the friends have logins (they are all guest).

The reason this does not work right now is because on top of each page, there is a trace of the albums (for example Gallery
> All Albums > Album 1 ) and viewers can click on "All Albums" and go to Album 2.

So the question is, how do I prevent 'guest' users from seeing other albums.

Any insight appreciated.

Thanks again.

 
floridave
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Posted: Fri, 2009-11-27 23:02
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So the question is, how do I prevent 'guest' users from seeing other albums.

In G3 you can't. You have to use permissions and logins.

In G2 there was 2+ things that might be what you are after:
The hidden album module:
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:hidden
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:Modules:password
http://codex.gallery2.org/Gallery2:How_Do_I_Remove_the_Root_Album_Link

So you will have to make the derision: G3 with logins and permissions, G2 with login and permissions, G2 with one or more of the above modules.
You can also develop a G3 hidden module similar to G2.

Dave
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kamroot

Joined: 2009-11-23
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Posted: Sat, 2009-11-28 05:49

ok thanks for the info. Any reason why this feature was taken away? Is is just that the hidden album module is not been ported over to G3?

 
nivekiam
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Posted: Sat, 2009-11-28 17:37

G3 is completely different code than G2. Nothing has been taken away, nothing. It all has to be rewritten from scratch to work with G3.

Someone will need to write the code for such a module.
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floridave
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Posted: Sat, 2009-11-28 23:10
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Any reason why this feature was taken away?

FAQ: What about feature X? It's really important to me!

Dave
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