Menalto's G2 integration into VB3
NOTE: Development for G2.1 and vB 3.5 is on this page: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=111931
I was about to post this on Menalto's site until i realized that I'd be publicly posting VB3's code... A no-no!!! heh! So, I'll post the instructions here, and then refer people to this post on how to do it! :) (obviously they'll have to log on w/ their licensed account to see it) Ok, here's how to integrate menalto's G2 gallery into VB3. Menalto's gallery is sweet. Menalto's gallery is free. Menalto's gallery is here: http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php :D This works on my system of vBulletin 3.0.7 and Gallery 2 Holy Hand Grenade. Known issues: VB3 has a password structure that consists of the user's password plus the salt md5'ed together. It is not possible to strip out just the user's password. Thus, this script pushes the users's password plus salt from VB3 into G2. The outcome - the standalone G2 passwords will not match *just* the user's password! There is talks of looking into salt'ing in the future w/ G2 integration, but that's the dealio as of this integration technique... If you are using G2 as 'embedded only', then game on, no worries. If not, then your users will need to log on through the VB3 install to setup their session, then can visit the G2 standalone if they wish... Step 1 - create a new file named 'gallery2.php' as per this thread: https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62164 (thx Gary King!!!) in that thread, the first box (the gallery2.php file), the contents will be (this is the section that contains the G2 embeded code which is available on Menalto's site... i'll update this thread w/ direct links once it's in place! *only* the G2 code is on their site, no VB3 code in accordance w/ the VB license agreement! :) ): Code:
<?php Code:
$ret = GalleryEmbed::init(array('embedUri' => 'gallery2.php', Code:
require_once('../gallery2/embed.php'); step 2 - creating the template as per the same thread, https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=62164 (2nd code box) create a template named 'gallery2' (no tics) and in it, place the following code: Code:
$stylevar[htmldoctype] oh, forgot to add! in scouring the net, i've seen a couple of posts where people have offered to pay for this solution. if you are one of them, and are serious, then here's Menalto's donation link! ;) (nope, i'm not affiliated w/ them... if you wanna donate to me, then i'll redirect you to the donation link to the site that this is for: a non-profit saltwater aquariast club's site! :) ) edit 2006.01.11 Quote:
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Glad to see you got it working. So your solution entails running Gallery in embedded mode which basically allows Gallery to utilize the Vbulletin log in system?
Do you have a link to your site for people to see what the results are? |
hello Reeve of shinra!
yup, that's the solution! :) G2 was written w/ integration in mind from day one from what i understand. whether it's postnuke, vBulletin, or your own user table you custom coded. here's a link to how it looks. this site isn't live yet (the live site is just the root domain running postnuke). i hope to have the site migrated and live on VB this week! :) just a couple things i need to do still... (banner integration for our sponsors being the sole thing from making it live i think... i've yet to search, but betting there's a solution on these forums, heh!) i'll probably edit the G2 css to match the VB3 css. i havn't done it yet because i'm not sure what style/colors we'll use in VB3 yet, so why edit G2's twice? ;) at first i disabled G2's css and of course then VB3's kicks in and G2 matches perfectly. but you loose functionality in G2 if you do that (slideshow and such). so, w/ the help over at menalto - G2's css is in place as well. and here's the link! this link will be broken eventually as the site goes live, but then it'll just be the root domain. http://www.cvreefers.org/VB/gallery2.php |
Awesome work dude. Glad to see someone finally took on this task of integrating the Best Gallery on the planet with the Best Forums System on the Planet.
Thanks a lot!!! |
:) yer welcome jugo!
and i agree on the gallery/forum combo! :D |
anyone get this working and has a demo for me to look at?
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thanks!
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currently fighting a couple of things... didn't notice them right off the bat until it had been running a while...
a) mod_rewrite - i can enable mod_rewrite and it works for the gallery2 installation, but not the embedded installation. i've done preliminary research on it and see that some embeded mod_rewrite issues were resolved w/ the latest CVS which i'm not runnin... b) the menu to the left to add/edit/delete items is not appearing for all users... again - i've yet to dig too deep into this. remember that G2 is still beta! :) |
<a href="http://www.ao1-squad.com/bb/gallery2.php" target="_blank">http://www.ao1-squad.com/bb/gallery2.php</a>
And yes to the issues stated above. I was going to post those. But so far the installation works as far as integration where users are concerned It' be cool if the theme would be inherited as well. |
I've been looking for a Menalto Gallery integration for vBulletin and this was great news! Right now I'm just running a test board to see how it works and have the intention of migrating an existing board over to it after testing.
Regarding the side-bar missing when integrated, I don't ever seem to be able to get it to show. My install is as vanilla as it can be, no mods, out of the box install for both Gallery2 and vBulletin. Just wondered if you could shine any light on it at all. I noticed it works like a champ on your site AND with the CMS addon, this is exactly what I'm hoping to achieve. |
as for issue:
b) the 'missing side bar' was a line of code i overlooked. not a bug, a feature! i'm actually quite embarassed i missed it... see the lines in the gallery2.php file in the first post: Code:
// user interface: disable sidebar in G2 and get it as separate HTML to put it into a block i.e., change it to: Code:
// user interface: disable sidebar in G2 and get it as separate HTML to put it into a block for instance, i'm using vBAdvanced and eventually plan on making the 'sidebar' controls a block on the left hand menu. why? real estate... i'll get my left hand VB menu, PLUS my gallery2 left hand menu. (only on the G2 pages of course!) i havn't figured out how to do that just yet (havn't messed w/ it much) so in the interim, i've just commented out that line and you'll instantly get the side G2 'bar'. revisiting issue: a) mod_rewrite G2 'holy hand grenade' has integration mod_rewrite issues. it has already been corrected according to the G2 developers, and u can grab it via the CVS if u like. i'm going to wait about a week or so and hope that the next beta release of G2 comes out. looking at their timeline, they have seemed to release udpates about every 4-5 weeks. if this pattern holds, we should have a release soon! if not, i'll go the CVS route. as for the other known issue, the VB salt pw vs. G2's 'regular' pw, no news on that front. but... as long as your users enter through the VB site, all is well! :) HTH! :) and lmk if u guys come across any other bugs!! :) once i get around to putting the G2 sidebar into vBAdvanced, i'll post that too! (no ETA, it's low priority compared to the other gazillion things i need to do to the site from the migration of postnuke) |
This is great!!
How hard would it be to get 3 random images to show up on forum home??? I know..... this belongs in the hack request forum but I would love that hack intergrated with this one...... Nice work!! |
very doable! :)
there are random block and newest pic and random album and newest album and....... blocks built into G2 which INCLUDE integration blocks! i've started to research this a bit, and don't quote me 100% because i got distracted during the research (pretty butterfly!!) but i believe that similar to issue a), there were some integration block issues that have been sorted out and are on the CVS. i plan on revisiting this once i do the next G2 update, so i'll post that too (unless of course someone beats me to it! ;) ) but oh man, u just GOTTA have a random pic block or four, heh! :D |
Awesome!!! I will be waiting for that!!!
Thanks again, Rich |
notta prob, glad ya like it!
:) |
Wodah, thanks so much for the VERY quick reply!!! This is a superb integration and it's also nice that we don't have to hack the snot out of vBulletin! Makes future upgrades a breeze! Kudos on this and I will be re-visiting. posting and watching your progress with baited breath! :)
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np!
big kudos to the folks at menalto!! coding from the ground up w/ a integration as a core feature has really shown it's strength! i too love the fact that you don't have to hack into your vB install to get it to work! :) |
Thanks guys, I was really looking for this mod as well. I beleive I followed the noted steps correctly, but I'm getting this error...
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ya, u need to up the:
memory_limit in your php.ini file or request that your admin does... looks like it's set to 8M. i had to REALLY increase mine on my G1 to G2 import... |
Well I searched around and upped the memory limit from within the gallery2.php file it self to 12mb. So the gallery2.php file now shows me the gallery embedded with the forum. Its just showing the album names.
But, I cant login to the gallery with either the G2 users or my VB3 Forum users. I've tried both from gallery2.php and the normal /gallery2 -EDIT Its working now. The short-url mod that wasnt working with the embedding, I took it off and it worked. Howevery, only people who do not have a previous account registered with G2 can log into the new embedded gallery using their VB accounts. Thanks... |
Hi. I'm sorry but I have encountered some problems doing the integration.
I got the below error. Code:
Warning: main(./global.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/iwap/public_html/gallery/gallery.php on line 32 Code:
// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################ |
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Change that to Code:
require_once('/full/path/to/forum/global.php'); |
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glad to hear you got it worked out!! as for the user issue: hrm.. i wonder if this directly stems from the known issue in the first post... i didn't come across this issue, but all of my gallery users were embedded in postnuke and now are embedded from G2. i.e. i had no G2 users other then the admin prior to the install of G2... |
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heya!
a big step forward! :) just thought i'd let you (others) know that i've installed G2b3, enabled/setup the mod_rewrite module (on the G2 Site Admin), copied the .htaccess file out of my G2 base dir (www/gallery2/.htaccess) and put it into my vB base dir (www/.htaccess), and it's workin! we can now use bbcode [ i m g ] tags out of our gallery install again! (the pictures now retain their .jpg extension or whatever instead of a long database name) w00t! no changes to any files/templates other then the .htaccess files. now we just gotta get that random block working... |
Cheers Whodah... I've been meaning to look into this for a very very long time, as i love gallery, and love vbulletin... it looks like you've taken a lot of the hard work for me yourself, and have made it easy for us.
I'm uploading G2 as we speak, have the vb3 gallery2.php file and template at the ready.. I'll let you know how i go here... Whodah - you da man... this installation does everything i ever hoped and dreamed for in a gallery setup linked to the forums... I'm extremely impressed... My only thoughts are, I slipped up with that side menu thing as well... perhaps edit the code in the first post? Other than that, you're a miracle worker! Also, can anyone tell me what's the easiest way about adding "Viewing Gallery" to the who's online page? Looks a bit ugly at the moment? |
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Do you have any idea how to retain the rewrite capabilities and have the images displayed while integrated/nested in VB? Thanks bud. BTW, Gallery2 gets better with each release!!! |
heya!
MrToasty: good idea - i've edited the first post commenting out the 'disable sidebar' line... ZED28: yes, this was brought to my attention by a couple users as well. the issue is in our vB .htaccess file... it's skipping our integration php file... not sure how to fix it just yet, but it should be fixable w/ the current version (G2b3) i.e. we shouldn't have to wait for the next release on this one, woot! talking to one of the programmers, it looks like the next release will skirt this issue w/ a cookie/session setting. but for now, we gotta fix our .htaccess file. i'll probably visit this issue in the next couple of days. i got the random block working - kinda... getting some access errors on that so i disabled it. but i'll be working on that soon too. |
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After 2 days of usage, the verdict is brilliant! I couldn't be more happy, as I've been waiting forever to be able to merge these 2 babies together...
My old Gallery1 albums all imported accross beautifully... the permissions I'm able to set for different usergroups is excellent... I'm over the moon... Cheers Whodah! This should be turned into an official integration hack as soon as Gallery2 becomes RC or full release. :) |
i'm glad you like it! :)
as an update: sounds like the mod_rewrite redirection method in integration is becoming obsolete and they're working on a session/cookie based method for multi-directory, multi-embeded (cms, whatever) and even... mutli-site! integration... it should be up on the CVS soon from what i read on the gallery forums. for the random block: i had it up on our site, then it was erroring out. i think i was initializing it wrong... but i think i've got it straightened out. a couple more days of testing and i'll post it! :) hey, anyone doing this w/ G2b3? if so - do your users get logged out of G2 after you 'surf around' G2 a bit? after about 5 navigations through G2, my IE users are getting logged out. my FF users stay logged in. i was wondering if anyone can replicate this? |
Whodah,
I just went live with my site today and the one problem I'm having is with the other Admin. Anyone else who logs into the site, Gallery2 creates an account automatically and then permissions can be set on the individuals album. However, when the other admin logs in, he gets the following error message and an account is never created for him:- line: 107, G2 did not return a success status. Here is the error message from G2: Error (GALLERY_SUCCESS) in at line 0 Any idea what this could be? Thanks bud! |
I followed the instructions as requested, but I can't seem to get mine working.
www.guardianbrotherhood.org www.guardianbrotherhood.org/forums (vb3) www.guardianbrotherhood.org/forums/gallery2.php My gallery install is in www.guardianbrotherhood.org/forums/gallery and when I go to the php it gives me: Code:
Unable to add cookies, header already sent. Ok... it looks like it's working now, but it's not picking up the color scheme/theme of my main vb site. Also, I'm curious how I can control the permissions of users for the gallery???? It's also not letting me upload any pictures to any of the albums... the remote won't download, the xp tab doesn't work, even the java applet complains about something.. HELP!!! My members have been begging for a picture gallery and I have been DESPERATELY trying to get one working that doesn't cost a fortune. I'd even be willing to pay someone to help me get this working right on my site... just PLEASE help. |
ZED28: will your 2nd admin be entering the gallery stictly from vB3? i.e. will NOT be entering it through the standalone version? (not to be confused w/ accessing, we're talking entering here)
if so (and hopefully how it is!!) - i'd visit yer G2, delete the 2nd admin. then have the 2nd admin log on to vB3, click yer gallery2.php integration file, the integration script will then create the 2nd admin user. you'll then have to go in as the 1st admin and edit the 2nd admin's account to make them an admin as at this point, they'd just be a regular user. Zeoran: can you post your gallery2.php file and gallery2 template? |
quick rundown:
my main site is www.zeoran.com. I'm running vb and the gallery on www.guardianbrotherhood.org which is a sub-domain pointer off my main site. So the web for guardianbrotherhood.org is under /home/guardian/public_html/gb/. I installed the gallery under the forums directory which is at www.guardianbrotherhood.org/forums/gallery. here is my gallery2.php Code:
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$stylevar[htmldoctype] Thank you. |
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Whodah,
I'm still tinkering with the admin problem I was having and that's on the back burner right now, I haven't heard from the guy to know if it's still a problem. But on a totally unrelated note; I have changed my theme quite a bit and of course, the standard theme that comes with Gallery is not suitable so I changed the values in the Gallery CSS (Matrix) to make it fit my vBulletin theme. Well then I get to asking myself what I'm going to do if I want a different skin? :rolleyes: LOL So I tried something that just seemed too easy for words, I copied the entire contents of the Matrix theme.css file from Gallery and apended it to the "Additional CSS Definitions" section of the Main CSS for my theme, deleted or renamed the original style.css file in Gallery and voila! Switch themes in VB and the Gallery does the same! Now of course, you do have to create a matching CSS file for Gallery to match your chosen theme but once you have done that, copy the modified CSS as stated above and that should work! |
Zeoran: i'm not seeing the problem :(
ZED28: admin issue: roger that! css: nice!!! |
JimBean: thought of you today when i read that they are implementing subdomain support. it's not there yet, but they are working on it...
more info here: http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php...wtopic&t=30959 |
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