Media Gallery v1.2.1 is a full-featured, integrated Geeklog plugin for providing a full media gallery to your Geeklog installation. Media Gallery has a rich set of features and takes full advantage of the Geeklog features such as security permissions, comments, autotags and more.

v1.2.1 contains many new features, bug fixes and overall improvements, making it a full featured multi-media gallery solution for Geeklog. This release fully supports Geeklog 1.4 and register_globals turned off.

You can get more information and download Media Gallery through the Media Gallery Support site.

READ THE DOCUMENTATION BEFORE UPGRADING, THERE ARE VERY IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS YOU MUST FOLLOW!

I've completed a new version of the GUS plugin. The main change is the ability to install and use this plugin with register_globals off. This will allow you to use it with the upcoming Geeklog 1.4 if you choose to turn off register_globals.

You may get more information or dowload it through my geeklog software page.

v1.6.0 [29 Jan 2006]

• [fix] save on an SQL query if there is no referrer
• [fix] eliminate some warnings and a few minor buglets
• [new] now installs and works with register_globals off
• [new] changed the browser stats to make them more useful by breaking it down by browser and then version
• [new] optionally show bots by name [Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, Inktomi, and MSN Bot] in the Who's Online block instead of showing them as Guests [based on code by ByteEnabled]
  • controlled by the new $_GUS_CONF['wo_show_bots'] option in config.php

- Andy Maloney

The Rating plugin 1.0b (beta) release is on my site and in the downloads section on this site. If you have any problems, post them in the forums here or on my site. Please also post any feedback/suggestions.

This plugin allows you to add a rating system to any item. You can add them with autotags, or with a slight modification to the core files. Full details will be posted on my site soon.

I would also like to ask Dirk and the guys: please would you think of some way that a plugin can contribute code to stories and other items, so that it is not necessary to modify core files to add a rating.

Cheers, Euan.

The Flickr plugin displays thumbnails of Flickr photos on your site and links the thumbnails to their photo pages.

All the plugin does is to implement a [flickr:] autotag. You simply add the photo's id and it does all the rest. What is a photo id? When you view a photo on Flickr, the URL looks something like this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhaun/71877803/

So here "71877803" is the photo's id. Now you simply add that id in the [flickr:] autotag after the colon:

[flickr:71877803]

When the story is displayed, it will show the photo's thumbnail instead of the autotag. Clicking on the thumbnail will take you to the photo page on Flickr (the above URL, in this example).

The plugin will get the photo's title from Flickr and display it as a title attribute when you hover your mouse over the thumbnail. If you'd rather provide your own title, simply enter it after the id:

[flickr:71877803 How to make a penguin fly]

And that's pretty much everything the plugin currently does.

Since we don't seem to have enough options for photo gallery plugins, I've packaged up a working version of the Geeklog-Gallery2 integration plugin.

It's a bit skimpy on features and documentation at the moment, but my testers seem happy with it up til now! [Thanks Ajay, Wayne, and John!] I'm releasing it because people have been waiting for a long time and I wanted to give them something useful to play with.

This version installs a random photo block by default and allows you the option of having the G2 control block as a geeklog block or left alone as part of the G2 page.

You can get it through my geeklog software page.

-Andy Maloney

A beta release of the Media Gallery for Geeklog is now available for public consumption. It is available for download in the Geeklog Download Section or at www.ecsnet.org You can also see it in action at www.ecsnet.org

Media Gallery is a native plugin for Geeklog that provides a full featured media gallery, including photos and movies. If you have any issues with this plugin, please post your comments, feedback, bug reports, etc. in the Plugin Support Forum.

Features

Media Gallery attempts to take advantage of many of the features made available through Geeklog. The feature list includes:

• Multiple Media Types Supported (JPG, GIF, PNG, BMP, ASF, WMV)
• Multiple graphics package support (ImageMagick, NetPBM, GD)
• Center Block (featured album)
• Autotags for including links / images in stories
• Comments per media item
• Upload queuing
• Random Image block
• Online Photo Printing Services
• Geeklog Security Model
• Multiple methods to add media
  • Direct Upload through Admin Interface
  • Batch FTP Uploading
  • Windows XP Publish to Web (experimental)
• Flexible Geeklog template support
• Unlimited Album->Sub Album support
• Full integration with Geeklog search and stats

The goal is to provide a full featured method to allow webmasters to display their photo's and other media items.

If Media Gallery does not suit your needs, I recommend you look at the Inmemoriam Media Gallery also available for download in the Geeklog Download Section. Each plugin has it's own set of unique features and functions. Now there are simply more options for an true native plugin.

Hello all!

I've released a new version of GUS. I highly recommend that everyone upgrade to this version because it contains a security fix. Before you start freaking out, the problem does not allow any kind of compromise of the system - it only allows non-authorised users to view some of the GUS pages.

In this release:

v1.5.0 [13 Oct 2005]

• [security fix] fixed a problem which might allow non-authorised users to view some stats pages
• [fix] if you had a file outside the document root which included lib-common.php, the path would not be correct when the stats were entered in the database [introduced in 1.4]
• [fix] if your $CONF['site_url'] was 'http://foo.com' and someone arrived via 'http://www.foo.com', then 'foo.com' would show up as a referrer in the Who's Online block
• [fix] sorting columns on today's stats was broken
• [new] added new config option $_GUS_CONF['allow_ignore_anonymous'] to optimise a bit if you do not need the ability to ignore the user 'Anonymous'
• [new] added filtering by referrer
• [new] added some more navigation options to some pages

It is available through my geeklog software page.

- Andy Maloney

I have just released a test candidate of the GL Native Forum plugin version 2.5. This is the same code that I have been running on my site www.portalparts.com for the past 6 months or so. It's a completely re-vamped look and feel using CSS based buttons instead of images for a cleaner look but also should be a lot easlier to theme for different color schemes.

This is a release for testing so don't use it on a live site unless you are comfortable and able to restore or back out the changes. I've used it for months on my site but there can stll be many conditions that I have still not received enough testing. I will release another version once it has completed sufficient testing. Please post your feedback on my site or here in the plugins support forum.

Besides the change in the look, this version was a major rewrite of the core plugin and added many new features. For a summary of the new features - read on:

I have just released a new version of GUS, which brings with it some significant improvements.

For those of you unfamilar with GUS, it collects statistics on who visits your site, which browser and operating system they are using, which pages they view, and which links they are clicking to get there.

This information is useful for monitoring your site for abuse [which you can take care directly if you have the ban plugin installed] and to see how frequently different parts of your site are being used.

Here are the [slightly] shortened release notes for version 1.4:

The beta release of the Inmemoriam Media Gallery for Geeklog 1.3.11 is now available for public use. I'm calling this a beta release simply because it may not be 100% free of defects. Find it in the Geeklog download section or at SummitPages.ca.

I'm sure you've realized by now what Inmemoriam is--a media gallery plug-in designed specifically to run inside of Geeklog making use of Geeklog's user database as well as many of its core functions. Inmemoriam Media Gallery for Geeklog was inspired by a combination of factors not the least of which are both Geeklog's need for an integrated gallery solution designed with Geeklog in mind, and my personal preference for something other than the current mainstream options. My name is Alford, and I hope you enjoy using Inmemoriam as much as I've enjoyed developing it. Does that ever sound like a commercial :P

Some features include: media stored outside of the webroot, watermarking, my favorites album, backup utility, permissions system based on Geeklog's own, etc. A full list of features and special features can be found in the usage doc included in the package. For screenshots of the gallery visit SummitPages.ca.

The GD graphics library is required for this beta release. Future releases will (hopefully) support NetPBM and ImageMagick. Read the install instructions carefully. If you have installation issues, bug reports, or any other relevant issues or comments, please post them in Geeklog's plugin help forum.