OakGallery 2.0 Released ! [Great image gallery]

?ke is finally done with version 2.0 of the OakGallery.

OakGallery home:
http://www.ake.nu/gallery/

Some live galleries:
- http://blixten.ake.nu/gallery/ (Ver 2.0)
- http://pictures.potatoesmc.com/ (Ver 2.0)
- http://websociety.wm.net/~wmanbem/fi...k/fotogalleri/ (Ver 2.0)

Please post a link to your installed gallery.

Info:
- Integrated with your existing forum software
- Easy to integrate with other methods of user authentication
- IP-based authentication included for users without forum software
- Does not need 'register_globals' to be switched on
- It's FREE of charge ;-)

- Organize images into categories and subcategories
- Lets users rate and comment on the images
- Sort the images by date, rating, views, etc.
- Languages available: English and Swedish. Easy to translate to your own language!
- Most features are configurable in some way
- The design is very configurable
- Define your own data fields
- Built with speed and security in mind
- Automatic generation of thumbnails and display images
- Can add your logo to uploaded images automatically
- Uses ImageMagick for high quality thumbnail resizing
- Ban IP's from commenting
- Show random images from the gallery on any page on your site!
(This is done simply by including random.php in your own PHP page)

...and more!

Requriments:
Database Server
- MySQL or MS SQL Server (experimental support for ODBC)
- Administration tool for the database server (e.g. phpMyAdmin)
- Support for MySQL has been tested thouroughly.
- Support for MS SQL has been tested and seems to work fine.
- Support for ODBC is currently untested.
- PhpMyAdmin to import database structure http://www.phpmyadmin.net/
- ImageMagick installed on server http://imagemagick.sourceforge.net/
- The variable include_path = "." in php.ini

- PHP 4 (PHP 3 untested, but should work)
- Tested with PHP 4.2.2
- Forum Software
- Tested with phpBB 2.0.4
- Tested with vBulletin 2.2.x
- With vBulletin 2.3.x, and error message is produced by vBulletin, but still works.
- Forum software is not really needed (but highly recommended), you can use ip-based authentication too.

Web Server
-OakGallery currently requires a web server that allows you to run shell commands from php-scripts (for ImageMagick).

Installation:
1. Create a database for the gallery (using e.g. phpMyAdmin)
(You can use the same database for OakGallery as for other things, as long as the table names don't collide)
2. Execute the complete database script found in InstallDB/<server-type>-OakGallery.sql
3. UnZip the gallery to a local folder
Edit the Upload/config/galleryconfig.php to suit your needs. The configuration options should be self-explanatory. To find where ImageMagick's convert and composite are located. Try running this from your shell (unix):

which convert or
whereis convert

4. Upload all files in the 'Upload' subdirectory to your webserver.

5. Make the directories 'thumbnails' and 'images' writeable by the webserver.

E.g:
chown nobody thumbnails
chmod 770 thumbnails
(In this example, the webserver is run as user nobody.)

7. Also, you need to make the PHP temporary upload directory writable by the webserver.

(Contact your system administrator if you need help with step 6-7)
Now, try loading the gallery page in your webbrowser and start creating categories for your pictures!

8. Dont you get it working ? Please post your problem here ... include the following:

- Path to the gallery
- Path to the forum
- Path to phpinfo.php
- Path?s in the galleryconfig.php

Then it will be much easier to help you out.

Modification:
If you want to modify OakGallery to better suit your needs, the following rules must be obeyed:

- The 'PayPal-donate' link and text must be CLEARLY visible. Preferrably near the top of the page.
- The original copyright message must be CLEARLY visible near the top of ALL pages.
- Add a message saying 'Modified by xxxx' or similar near the copyright message.
- Have fun! (and yes, that is a rule!)).

[Zelda-King]

I think it's something to do with the CHMOD. It wont stay how I set it.

Yes, the database entry is deleted OK.

[Bergman]

Yes, im not so good at webservers but there is the servers webuser that should have write access in the directories. Dont think you can do that with the FTP clients CHMOD ... ill think you must do it from SHELL. Anyone who can help me explain ?

[Zelda-King]

SHELL's not something I know about, and yes I use FTP. In the database all the permissions are checked.

[Bergman]

Ok, then ill think you must ask the server support to help you put the right security on the folders. Or is it your own server ?

[Zelda-King]

No, it's not my server.

[Bergman]

I will ask my friend Åke how to set the correct security. But i think you must be a server administrator to fix that. Ill be back later about this.

[seeyou]

$cfgConvert = '/usr/bin/X11/convert'; // Local path to ImageMagick's convert
$cfgComposite = '/usr/bin/X11/composite'; // Local path to ImageMagick's composite

Now everything is working, but I don't know how to config the path from above, I am running under win2000 server OS with Apache web server.

I name ImageMagick to drive D and installed as a directory "x86", any help will be appreciate, now it doesn't seems to work for convert thumbnail.

[Bergman]

Zelda-King & seeyou, have updated the orginal installation instructions. Try to do like that. If it not solves the problem please post here again.

[colicab-d]

bergman this allow users to add images to a categorie? and coment rate etc? as i dont wanna be the only person adding images.

[Zelda-King]

I tried that. I don't think there's anything I can do until my system administrator edits the CHMOD settings.

The weird thing is I can change permissions at the database. Even by default the permissions are all checked, but on FTP it keeps reverting after it says the permissions were successfully updated. Probably because in the database both the owner and group are named 'admin'. On FTP the owner has full permissions but not 'group' or 'public'.

I check the folders on the FTP though and the files ARE uploaded to the images folder (but not the thumbnails one).