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This tutorial will outline the steps needed to integrate your vBulletin 3.5.X and Menalto Gallery 2.1 installations. The original thread located here has become a little too scattered, and since it's original focus was on the Gallery 2.0 and vBulletin 3.0 series, I think it'd be beneficial to start this new thread so that the information is more easily found for the 3.5.X and 2.1 series.

Before we begin, you should be aware that this tutorial assumes that you'll be placing your gallery in the root directory for your forums. My directory structure looks a little like this:

public_html/Vbulletin Files
and
public_html/gallery2/Gallery Files

As long as your gallery folder is located within your root vBulletin directory, this should work just fine.

Step 1:
Install Menalto Gallery 2.1. Remember to upload the "gallery2" folder INSIDE your root vBulletin directory!

Step 2:
Create a new file containing the following, and save it as gallery2.php:
PHP Code:
<?php

// ####################### SET PHP ENVIRONMENT ###########################
error_reporting(E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE);

// #################### DEFINE IMPORTANT CONSTANTS #######################
define('NO_REGISTER_GLOBALS'1);
define('THIS_SCRIPT''gallery'); // change this depending on your filename

// ################### PRE-CACHE TEMPLATES AND DATA ######################
// get special phrase groups
$phrasegroups = array(

);

// get special data templates from the datastore
$specialtemplates = array(

);

// pre-cache templates used by all actions
$globaltemplates = array(
'gallery2',
);

// pre-cache templates used by specific actions
$actiontemplates = array(

);

// ######################### REQUIRE BACK-END ############################

require_once('./global.php');

// #######################################################################
// ######################## START MAIN SCRIPT ############################
// #######################################################################

$navbits = array();
$navbits[$parent] = 'Gallery';
error_reporting(E_ALL );

$navbits construct_navbits($navbits);
eval(
'$navbar = "' fetch_template('navbar') . '";');

// #######################################################################
// ###################### Begin G2 INTEGRATION CODE ######################
// #######################################################################

$data runGallery();
$data['title'] = (isset($data['title']) && !empty($data['title'])) ? $data['title'] : 'Gallery';

function 
runGallery() {
global 
$vbulletin$userinfo;
require_once(
'/home/paranorm/public_html/gallery2/embed.php');

$data = array();

// If it's an anonymous user, set the g2 activeUser to null
$uid $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'] = '' $vbulletin->userinfo['userid'];

// initiate G2
// You need to edit the following 4 lines to suit your VB3 & G2 installations
// This is set up for an install that looks like:
// public_html/VB/<vb files>
// public_html/gallery2/<gallery2 files>
// and also setup for a VB3 template name of 'gallery2'. If you have any
// differences, make those changes here!
// You might need to change 'loginRedirect' if you have your VB3 setup to
// where index.php is not the root page of VB3... Like if you've changed it
// to forums.php or something of the like.

$ret GalleryEmbed::init(array('embedUri' => '/gallery2.php',
'g2Uri' => 'http://www.paranormalis.com/gallery2/',
'loginRedirect' => 'index.php',
'activeUserId' => $uid));
if (
$ret)
{
if (
$ret->getErrorCode() & ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT)
{
// Check if there's no G2 user mapped to the activeUserId
$ret GalleryEmbed::isExternalIdMapped($uid'GalleryUser');
if (
$ret && ($ret->getErrorCode() & ERROR_MISSING_OBJECT))
{
// User not mapped, create G2 user now
// Get Arguments for the new user:
$args['fullname'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];
$args['username'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['username'];
$args['hashedpassword'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['password'];
$args['hashmethod'] = 'md5';
$args['email'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['email'];
$args['language'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['lang_code'];
$args['creationtimestamp'] = $vbulletin->userinfo['joindate'];

$retcreate GalleryEmbed :: createUser($uid$args);
if (
$retcreate)
{
echo 
'<HR>line: '.__LINE__.', Failed to create G2 user with extId ['.$uid.']. Here is the error message from G2: <br />'.$retcreate->getAsHtml();
return 
false;
}
$ret GalleryEmbed::checkActiveUser($uid);
if (
$ret) {
print 
$ret->getAsHtml();
return 
false;
}
}
else
{
echo 
'<HR>line: '.__LINE__.', G2 did not return a success status. Here is the error message from G2: <br />'.$ret->getAsHtml();
return 
false;
}
}
else
{
echo 
'<HR>line: '.__LINE__.', G2 did not return a success status. Here is the error message from G2: <br />'.$ret->getAsHtml();
return 
false;
}
}

// user interface: disable sidebar in G2 and get it as separate HTML to put it into a block
//GalleryCapabilities::set('showSidebar', false);

// handle the G2 request
$g2moddata GalleryEmbed::handleRequest();

// show error message if isDone is not defined
if (!isset($g2moddata['isDone'])) {
$data['bodyHtml'] = 'isDone is not defined, something very bad must have happened.';
return 
$data;
}
// die if it was a binary data (image) request
if ($g2moddata['isDone']) {
exit; 
/* uploads module does this too */
}

// put the body html from G2 into the xaraya template
$data['bodyHtml'] = isset($g2moddata['bodyHtml']) ? $g2moddata['bodyHtml'] : '';

// get the page title, javascript and css links from the <head> html from G2
$title ''$javascript = array(); $css = array();

if (isset(
$g2moddata['headHtml'])) {
list(
$data['title'], $css$javascript) = GalleryEmbed::parseHead($g2moddata['headHtml']);
$data['headHtml'] = $g2moddata['headHtml'];
}

/* Add G2 javascript */
if (!empty($javascript)) {
foreach (
$javascript as $script) {
$data['javascript'] .= "\n".$script;
}
}

/* Add G2 css */
if (!empty($css)) {
foreach (
$css as $style) {
$data['css'] .= "\n".$style;
}
}

// sidebar block
if (isset($g2moddata['sidebarHtml']) && !empty($g2moddata['sidebarHtml'])) {
$data['sidebarHtml'] = $g2moddata['sidebarHtml'];
}

return 
$data;
}
// #######################################################################
// ####################### End G2 integration code #######################
// #######################################################################

eval('print_output("' fetch_template('gallery2') . '");');

?>
(or download the attached gallery2.php)

Step 3:
Find and edit the following code to suit your site setup:
PHP Code:
 require_once('/home/paranorm/public_html/gallery2/embed.php'); 
and
PHP Code:
 $ret GalleryEmbed::init(array('embedUri' => '/gallery2.php',
'g2Uri' => 'http://www.yoursite.com/gallery2/',
'loginRedirect' => 'index.php'
Save and upload the file to your root vBulletin directory.

Step 4:
Create a new template in your style manager called gallery2 containing the following:
HTML Code:
$stylevar[htmldoctype]
<html dir="$stylevar[textdirection]" lang="$stylevar[languagecode]">
<head>$headinclude
  $data[headHtml]
</head>
<body>
$header
$navbar
<table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%" align="center">
  <tr>
    <td class="tcat">Gallery</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td class="alt1">$data[bodyHtml]</td>
  </tr>
</table>
$footer
</body>
</html>
And that's basically it! Your gallery should now be accessable via www.yoursite.com/gallery2.php or www.yoursite.com/forums/gallery2.php (depending on how you have it set up).

You can achieve further integration by using johnmont's plugins which will:
  1. Delete users from the Gallery when you delete them from the vBulletin control panel.
  2. Update user information in the gallery when they change their information in the User CP.
John has given me permission to post them The attached gallery-plugins.xml file will create two new plugins called Delete Gallery User and Update Gallery User. You'll need to edit both of these plugins after installation and change
PHP Code:
require_once('/home/paranorm/public_html/gallery2/embed.php''); 
(it's the very first line in both of them) to match your site setup.

Hopefully this tutorial sparks a little more interest in this area and we can get some additional people contributing solutions to achieve tighter integration :banana:

As the integration progresses, I'll update this thread to keep everything together and accessable.

Enjoy!
Attached Files
File Type: php gallery2.php (5.5 KB, 751 views)
File Type: xml gallery-plugins.xml (1.8 KB, 722 views)
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That sounds really confusing, so I think I'll just make a gallery on photommunity.com and say meh with the vB intergration until I can afford photopost or something i dunno.
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i am not 100% on the multi site either. but if you install it to a location that BOTH sites can hit(say /public_html. not web viewable, but shared). then all that is required is a few files(to start with) on each site and they will have a referance back to the shared install location. i am not sure what has to be viewable to a internet browser for gallery to work.

i assume all would be fine with a integrated gallery with VBB on one site and a standalone on the other side. to my knowledge they would not be aware of eachother. but that is just a guess on my part let me know if you have any other questions, i can see if i have any insight for you
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Quote:
Originally Posted by MovetoNYC
That sounds really confusing, so I think I'll just make a gallery on photommunity.com and say meh with the vB intergration until I can afford photopost or something i dunno.
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It is actually very easy. The install wizard does all of the work for you.
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It is actually very easy. The install wizard does all of the work for you.

thats what i was attempting to get at
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperJETT
Also, when I do open www.x-h2o.com/gallery2.php or /gallery2/ I get the gallery, but no way to upload anything, I can only view.

Do I need to change some usergroup permissions or other?
I'm having this issue right now.
Here's my setup.
httpdocs/forums
httpdocs/gallery2
httpdocs/forums/gallery2.php

when i go to gallery2.php it's embeded into VB but it's like the users are viewing as a guest. They can't upload or do any of the normal gallery user functions.
I did put 1 user into the admin group through the standalone gallery2 and it can upload but something's still doesn't seem right.

I looked in the DB and the VB users are being created as they use the gallery2.php but i'm thinking there's some permission problem or something.

I've been trying to get a gallery/photo Album on my site for awhile and have tried them all and I like G2 the best if i could only get it to work.

Any Ideas?? Thanks
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Keith

Instead of this:

httpdocs/forums
httpdocs/gallery2
httpdocs/forums/gallery2.php

Use this:

httpdocs/forums
httpdocs/forums/gallery2
httpdocs/forums/gallery2.php

I tried the same thing as you did - and never got it working. Once I put the gallery folder in the forums folder, everything started working.
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Originally Posted by keith455
I'm having this issue right now.
Here's my setup.
httpdocs/forums
httpdocs/gallery2
httpdocs/forums/gallery2.php

when i go to gallery2.php it's embeded into VB but it's like the users are viewing as a guest. They can't upload or do any of the normal gallery user functions.
I did put 1 user into the admin group through the standalone gallery2 and it can upload but something's still doesn't seem right.

I looked in the DB and the VB users are being created as they use the gallery2.php but i'm thinking there's some permission problem or something.

I've been trying to get a gallery/photo Album on my site for awhile and have tried them all and I like G2 the best if i could only get it to work.

Any Ideas?? Thanks

try disabling all of the URL Rewrite modules.... if that does not work, post up your gallery2.php and i can give it a once over to see if anythign jumps out. i have my board/gallery setup the same way

/gallery/
/forum/
/forum/gallery.php
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I'd like to upgrade the forum but don't want to break the gallery...

Thanks,

Sean
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i am not on 3.6, probobly wont be for some time

plus its in beta, not good for me.
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actually RC2 now
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