Easy, it would be SQL. Just check against the cpg11d_albums table for the userid, if it exists, he has an album. If not.. well, he doesn't. ;)

I can write this out later, I'm getting ready to take off from work.

So if I understand this correctly its Catagories first then Albums, right? ugh! We need each user to have thier own gallery and it would be a plus if they could put thier own work into thier own catagories though I guess at this junction that may not be too big a deal. I may try out gallery and work on intergrating that instead.

edit: let me clarify this by saying that I am looking for a nice easy way to pull up a users gallery which I don't think coppermine is capable of as it currently stands. :ermm:

As for showing a gallery button in the postbit, I was thinking of having a secondary usergroup for gallery users and using a bit of php in the template to show the link for anyone in that usergroup. The users album can be made to correspond with their member ID's so the link in the post bit should be a fairly simple thing that way.

Of course you can pull up a users gallery easily. For instance, on my forum you can access a gallery via http://www.mysite.com/gallery/users?username

It doesn't get much easier than that. ;)

Also, the vBulletin -> Coppermine bridge already synchronizes albums with userid. All the groundwork is layed, you just need to grab it from the SQL DB.

could someone give us info on how to do the navbar and header & footer so it works 100% with vbulletins templates..

It's a minor pain in the butt. You need to copy the login code from the vB template and apply it in the coppermine template and tweak it yourself. It's not going to be the same for everyone. See mine @ http://www.sffba.net/gallery/

ok w/e so your saying, copy the same code that calls the header and footer, global, and navbar in index.php into the gallery php files... and i should be good to go? As long as i change the path so it can work in a different directory?

Mangus - could you give me step by step of how to make my coppermine look like my vb -- as you did? Im still green at all this........ and skinning coppermine is a bit beyond my abilities yet --- I just figured out how to add something to the navbar LOL

magnus, any news on an update? Your site looks best by far.

BTW, did you get the gallery/users?username hack off the Coppermind forums? I wrote that little script. :)

Ciao,

a little bit offtopic...

I use the following link in postbit:
<a href="/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=lastupby&uid=$post[userid]"><img src="gallerypic.gif" border="0" alt="Gallerypictures of $post[username]"> $post[username]?s Gallery</a>

I want to display the link only for user who have uploaded pictures.
But I don?t know how to code a script to use a parameter with the if-clause

the table cpm_pictures has an owner_id field so it can?t be difficult for a programmer ;)
Can somebody help me please?

Thanks
Andr?

if coppermine was fully integrated an IF statement would work.