Online galleries for your website

[Kate]

If you wonder how to have your favourite photos on your website, please, read this post.

Online gallery applications are tools which help you manage your photo albums on your website.

Photo management includes:

:: automatic thumbnail creation,
:: image resizing,
:: rotation,
:: ordering,
:: captioning,
:: searching, etc.

Some of the most popular gallery software are Gallery / Gallery 2 and Coppermine .

You are also able to use Mambo or Joomla CMS and integrate a Gallery into it.

[kelleyco]

Hello, Does SG have a recommended way to seamlessly integrated Coppermine? I am running both of the latest install from Fantastico and have not really found a good way to do this from everything I've read on the web. Any recommendations would be useful! Thanks in advance!

[Kate]

Hi,

Currently, I do not know about a component/module that integrates Joomla and Coppermine.

The 2 galleries that can be integrated with Mambo and Joomla are Zoom gallery and Gallery 2.

Zoom gallery is the lighter and easier option (you can check Zoom gallery tutorial).

Gallery has more features, but is a bit more complicated for beginner users.

Still, if you would like to use Coppermine, you can simply create a link from your Joomla menu to your Coppermine gallery and your visitors will be able to see your pics.

[Gregorius]

Actually there is an integration of Coppermine into Mambo/ Joomla - a good one at that... see it here: http://www.joombla.com/

[junaid]

do you have any gallery with integrate on VB forum

[Kate]

Coppermine can be integrated within vBulletin.

Here is the Coppermine tutorial

[zhan]

My favorite one of all time is Wondershare Flash Slideshow Builder.

[fl60srock]

Do these galleries work within the sitebuilder or is this going to require ftp?

I built my site with sitebuilder but find it lacking in the galleries area:
I need the following functions for a gallery

1) Ability to have two gallery sections for two different photographers

2) Ability to add the shopping cart to individual photographs so people can order them (rather than having to list each photo in the original shopping cart provided with sitebuilder)

Can these things be done within sitebuilder constraints??

[fl60srock]

I learned this the hard way -- now that I installed Coppermine, sitebuilder no longer works, which means my site cannot be completed.
And the tutorial for installing Coppermine has no warning of this. Further, it tells you how to install it but then does NOT tell you how to log in to the admin part of Coppermine.

Not that it matters. My site is ruined.

[Silvia]

I learned this the hard way -- now that I installed Coppermine, sitebuilder no longer works, which means my site cannot be completed.
And the tutorial for installing Coppermine has no warning of this. Further, it tells you how to install it but then does NOT tell you how to log in to the admin part of Coppermine.

Not that it matters. My site is ruined.

Please note that the SiteBuilder is a very simple application that is used for simple websites. It cannot be integrated with any galleries. However, you may try to connect the two applications with a link.

[fl60srock]

Please note that the SiteBuilder is a very simple application that is used for simple websites. It cannot be integrated with any galleries. However, you may try to connect the two applications with a link.

Too late now. By installing Coppermine, I can no longer access my site via sitebuilder to finish what I'd started. I've got a site almost done except the galleries and sales and have no way to go in and finish it up. Apparently when I installed coppermine it wiped out the database that powered sitebuilder.

I thought maybe if I downloaded the files and re-uploaded them, I could at least edit them offline but that doesn't appear to be the case either. I didn't try it...I did back up the pages but am afraid to do anything with them.

Tech support has been less than helpful. Had I gotten a timely response I would have known I couldn't integrate the two items. I asked this question for two full days of tech support and didn't get an answer.

Basically due to poor documentation for sitebuilder (they don't tell you that you can't add things to it) I've destroyed all my work. I was told they only back up the databases once a week, which does me no good because the last one was on the 17th and my account didn't exist then.

[Silvia]

I thought maybe if I downloaded the files and re-uploaded them, I could at least edit them offline but that doesn't appear to be the case either. I didn't try it...I did back up the pages but am afraid to do anything with them.

In any case, we keep a backup of your website. This backup could be restored and thus upload your website before it has been messed up.

You can request a back up restore from the Tech Support Team by posting a ticket to them from your customer's area.

[www.legwearstore.com]

Was Coppermine down yesterday?

[Skash]

1) There is a way for coppermine to be interrogated with php-nuke.

2) When creating a website and if you want to interrogate coppermine with it, set a link to coppermine through the the site builder.

3) If you want to embed coppermine through site builder then it's best to whip out your favourite php editor and make it so that the files don't clash with each other or you can easily do number 2.

[meanpony]

Hi,

Currently, I do not know about a component/module that integrates Joomla and Coppermine.

The 2 galleries that can be integrated with Mambo and Joomla are Zoom gallery and Gallery 2.

Zoom gallery is the lighter and easier option (you can check Zoom gallery tutorial).

Gallery has more features, but is a bit more complicated for beginner users.

Still, if you would like to use Coppermine, you can simply create a link from your Joomla menu to your Coppermine gallery and your visitors will be able to see your pics.

zOOm integrates with joomla??????????
please show a link to a working demo on SG servers

thanx,
meanpony

[Silvia]

You can have a look at the screen shot tutorial SiteGround has created for this integration, below:

http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/...mbo_joomla.htm

[bosaurag]

Im having major problems with character encoding on my Gallery2 when its embedded in Joomla - charset for Joomla is iso-8859-1 and Gallery2 uses UTF-8.
This results in problems...

Joomla 1.5 (beta) uses utf-8, but its not avaliable yet at SiteGround.

Anyone knows when the new Joomla will be avaliable? Or a solution?

/Bo
Sweden

[kaloyan]

Gallery 2 uses the utf-8 charset and instead of the default joomla iso charset. This can give problems with special characters like but not limited by: "éáëéèü"

You should make the following changes in order to convert gallery2 output to Joomla charset:

component changes in ../components/com_gallery2/pages/main.php:

print $g2moddata['bodyHtml'];

change the above line to this:

print iconv("UTF-8", $iso, $g2moddata['bodyHtml']);

For Module you have use add this to end of the file just before "?>"

$content = iconv("UTF-8", $iso, $content);

If you don't like iconv you can also use utf-8_decode:

print utf8_decode($g2moddata['bodyHtml']);

and modules:

$content = utf8_decode($content);

[kaloyan]

This depends on the version of coppermine that you have installed. Can you please provide me with a link to your gallery and I will give you step-by-step instructions how to login.

[terrapinhead83]

That's an helpfull topic.

Already on favorites.
Thx very much.

true! thank u guys, now I finally gonna get my gallery-project done.