gallery w/o vb

[StuntFactoryX]

<a href="http://www.electrofly.com/gallery_listing.php" target="_blank">http://www.electrofly.com/gallery_listing.php</a>

anyone have any idea what this site is using? that looks like somthing that is what i have in mind.

i have been working w/ vb about a year now... i have gotten quite good and comfortable w/ it. however i wanna start a new site that has no use for forums. i really like how vb is put together and hoping to find somthing that is as good.

does anyone have any suggestions on good gallery software? im looking for somthing that would have a portal plug in kind of thing and a gallery. somthing that i can easily skin.

the sites theme is club nightlife... we have 1000s if pics from local clubs. on the main page i want to put up promotional banners and announcments and have the gallery.

i use photopost pro on my vb sites. i know it stands alone but it seems pretty boring w/o vb. you loose all the vb graphics... there isnt any skins available... and no portal.

any suggestions?

[projectego]

I can't really think of a single commercial gallery script that comes with a portal as standard. I'd personally recommend Coppermine Photo Gallery - it's a fantastic program and I believe there's a portal plugin available in their modding forum.

[MPDev]

PhotoPost Pro has the "portal" configurable front end already; there are some skins for it included, but you'd have to do a little work if you wanted to use a vB skin on a stand alone.

I even modified the front end on http://www.shutteralley.com to remove the forum listings and just display recent photos added.

I did use a vB skin on one site by purchasing a second skin license and then copying the header, headerinclude and footer scripts (along with the css file) from the vB site to the standalone files header.html, headtags.html, footer.html and style.css. Worked like a charm without needing vBulletin to be installed.

[I did change the photopost forum file to use vB style names versus the PhotoPost internal ones and used the non-vB PhotoPost templates.]

That's how I got a vB skin to work on a stand-alone copy of PP anyways.

[StuntFactoryX]

shutter ally is a very sharp site.... and i wish photpost had a tutorial on how to use the vbskin on the sland alone... im not a coder... i have a idea what you talking about but i dont think i could accomplish it on my own going in blind

[MPDev]

I saw your post on the other site; I'll be more specific when I have a little time to write it up. It's not as simple as flipping a switch, but it's not that hard, either.

[StuntFactoryX]

thank you

[ToyotaDiesel]

* Very interested also.

I took a look at the shutteralley site, and I am so very impressed. The best looking photopost site I've seen to date. It appears the code is modified, as you can't register, and theres a message board. Very slick though. A work of art itself.

[MPDev]

Originally Posted by ToyotaDiesel

* Very interested also.

I took a look at the shutteralley site, and I am so very impressed. The best looking photopost site I've seen to date. It appears the code is modified, as you can't register, and theres a message board. Very slick though. A work of art itself.

ShutterAlley uses an "invite" system; there is a form to fill in to request an invitation, but we're trying to keep registration to those who are genuinely interested in sharing photography.

There is a simple message board - this is going to be a feature of the next release of PhotoPost; for stand-alone boards (not sure a forum user would use this since it would be repetitive), it'll give a simple social aspect to the gallery.

ShutterAlley is indeed alot of custom code, but much of it is making it's way into the next update of PhotoPost. As for the look, all I did was replace the main index page with the featured photos box (simply taking out the category listing) and then used a menu builder to create a different type of navigation.

Thank you for the kind words; it was alot of work, but I think it comes across nicely.

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Okay, how did I get the vB skin to work with a standalone PhotoPost.

First, I installed PhotoPost as a stand-alone and got everything setup.

Next, I went to my vB site where I had the skin I wanted to use. I did a Read Source to grab the css style sheet for the site. If you have css as a file, you'll need to open the css file in the header; if you use css in your header, you'd copy the css from there. I copied this stylesheet into the default photopost css style I was using for the standalone (replacing entirely the PhotoPost css file with the vB one). Then I copied over the images directory from the vB site to the PhotoPost site (changing the CSS to reflect new image paths for anything used in the CSS).

Then I opened the forums/vb3.php file and at the bottom I copied the $Style variables and pasted them into the bottom of the photopost.php file (do not copy the forumstyle if() that wraps the $Style variables since you will defiantly be using the new style variables.

You don't need the vb3enhanced templates from PhotoPost; because it contains alot of vB specific stuff that isn't in the stand-alone script.

That should do it - in summary, copy the CSS file, copy the images files, update the forums/photopost.php file with new $Style variables.

Make sure you buy another license of your style that you are using; while not used with vB, you are using a second install of their skin.