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!)).

[limey]

Ok error fixed. Stupid really. Line 126 and 95 don't write something like "Johnny's Gallery" make it "Johnnys Gallery".

My silly mistake.

[cyrus]

Hi all,

Ive got everything in place (so I think) but I am getting "Error moving file - Please contact system administrator" when I try uploading a file. I know people have come across this problem before and I know someone will say chmod 770 to images and thumbnails (777 is 770 doesnt work) but I have done that and do not see where the problem may be.

I have a slight hunch it may be that I have not specified a tmp directory (step 7 of installation) and not chmodded it. Where do I create this directory if I need to ???

thanks

// Cyrus

[limey]

Whats your path settings?

is your forums: http://www.foo.com/forum/gallery ?

if so you need to add forum in front of gallery in the config.

[cyrus]

OMG !!! Limey, ur an angel in disguise ... THANNKKSSS ITS WORKED !!!

THANKS AKE AND BERGMAN for this release.

*runs off to play with gallery*

[cyrus]

Is it possible to change the date/time for the gallery of when image is postted, because right now mine is incorrect and I dont know how to fix it.

[NeilMcRae]

I've found the issue with missing thumbnails. If you are getting this its because imagemagick hasn't been installed correctly and has no way to process the image that you are trying to work on.
The program will be exiting with an error message like this:

convert: No decode delegate for this image format (/data/html/www.z4roadster.org.uk/gallery/images/3-1627537269-Z4_E85_RO_maincar.jpg)

Also check that your comments or messages have no spaces in them as that confuses the script.

If you want to check if this is your problem then its pretty easy, but you need system admin to the box that you are using:

do the following:

cd /usr/local/bin [or wherever your binary for convert is]
mv convert convert.old
create a script called convert [vi convert or emacs convert]
#!/bin/sh
echo $0 $1 $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 > /tmp/test2

Then try to upload a file using oakgallery.

Once you have done this you can look at the file /tmp/test2:

/usr/local/bin/convert -geometry 160x120> -comment www.z4roadster.org.uk - Gallery /data/html/www.z4roadster.org.uk/gallery/images/3-1627537269-Z4_E85_RO_maincar.jpg[0] /data/html/www.z4roadster.org.uk/gallery/thumbnails/4.jpg

you should try to run that on the command line and see what happens. If you get the same error as I did above then its because that imagemagick hasn't been installed with all its components properly.

The fix that for FreeBSD is to use the imagemagick in the ports part of FreeBSD, on NetBSD I'm just about to test the imagemagick thats in that section.

hope this helps.

Neil.

[Highlander]

why does no one includes a support for GD 1.6/1.8 or higher ? ..everyone ..really every server has this feature..but imagemagick is a feature only own server admins can include or install..so it means that we as simple webpage admins never can use this great script

..why no one who got the abbility works this simple feature out?..so after installation may choose GD or IM suport .. if this would be integrated it woudl be better than Photopost andevery other script.. without that a big usergroup cant use this script! and thats also the reason, whay after moth only 14 pages of answer are placed in this thread..

[NeilMcRae]

highlander you pay for what you get!

[Highlander]

thats no matter .. paying or not paying..but why dont using standarts like GD this is defintifely installed on 90% of all Webserver (linux and windows!) ... imagemagic is for free but is installed on a few percent of webservers..

paying is not the role of my question

[NeilMcRae]

highlander yes, I think you just need to be more patient