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New Gallery/Geeklog Integration

Authored by: sauoq on Saturday, October 04 2003 @ 06:38 pm EDT

I've got this installed and working. Very nice! Now, I have some questions... I'm new to both geeklog and gallery, and if I neet to rtfm, just let me know. I'm mostly looking for "that's doable", "that will be doable", or "do it yourself" responses.

Is the URL rewriting function of gallery broken in the integrated version? It seems the tarball doesn't include gallery/setup/.htaccess file that the standard release of gallery does... I noticed this after getting the warning that Apache doesn't obey my .htaccess file (yeah, it does) and trying to figure out why. It appears that this is used somehow by the check_htaccess function. As it's an optional feature anyway, I didn't dig too deep....

Can I control access to the gallery in the same way I do other geeklog resources? I'd like to prevent non-members from viewing it and I'd like to control album creation/editing via a group. It would be nice if users could have their own album and make it viewable and editable to other members only at their discretion. It seems that, as it is now, I need "root" privs to edit the gallery. Is that right?

Can I use the gallery for user photos?

Can I embed thumbs from the gallery in stories? Comments? Etc? What about the fullsize pictures?

I'd like a block that displays a random photo and its caption from a particular album. Does such a block exist yet? (Should I be searching somewhere before asking?)

Thanks much for any help you can give me and thank you for making this integration so easy. :-)

-sauoq

New Gallery/Geeklog Integration

Authored by: sauoq on Monday, October 06 2003 @ 04:21 pm EDT

Here's a followup on my own post after discovering some answers...

> Is the URL rewriting function of gallery broken in the
> integrated version?

Yes. You need the gallery/setup/.htaccess file from the gallery distribution. With that file present, configuration of url rewriting works fine.

> Can I control access to the gallery in the same way I do
> other geeklog resources?

Yes, but you need to do it through the gallery's permissions page rather than through the geeklog admin section.

> Can I use the gallery for user photos?

I haven't figured this one out yet.

> Can I embed thumbs from the gallery in stories?
> Comments? Etc? What about the fullsize pictures?

I haven't figured this out out yet either.

> I'd like a block that displays a random photo and its
> caption from a particular album. Does such a block exist
> yet? (Should I be searching somewhere before asking?)

Yes, such a block exists. I found GalleryRandomPhotoBlock on squatty.com. It requires a few manual fixes to get it working right with an embedded gallery.

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