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!)).

[Datenpapst]

Will there be an updatefor 3.0.0 Gold?

[allan grossman]

I spoke to Ake on this a few weeks ago and at that time he didn't have a vB license any more so he couldn't port it to vB3. Maybe that's resolved now

[SpeedysWorld]

Maybe he could give someone else permisson to port it? I really would like to use this hack, it's just what I need and the 4images one has to many errors.

- SpeedysWorld

[Bergman2]

I will speak to Åke to fix it with vb3. He can try it out on my server.

[iceman-x]

What is hapening? Have Åke found ho to fix this problem ?. Ore is there som one else that can, modify this to work under vb 3.

thanks in advance.

mvh ice