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I will admit it is messy for sure… But why does it matter? It don’ think it matters and the only way you would know that all the files are in one huge honkin’ directory is by looking through a terminal or console window.

All the administration is done through the web admin portion and the actualy physical layout is transparent to both the administrator and the web viewers.

You are able to create the folders/subfolders structure the visitors will see, upload whatever pictures to your structure all through the web admin so interface unless you are in the directory looking around for something, you wouldn’t realize it as the presentation hides this messy part.

IMHO, I guess I find it hard to justify not using what seems to be otherwise a good product for something like that.

I am trying to get .htaccess going as well, do you have to have something in apache2.conf like the following relating to your root web directory?


<Directory "/web_folder">
Options X
AllowOverride X
Order deny, allow
Allow from X
</Directory>


And if so, what options do you require? I have been trying to get it working, but no matter what I put in .htaccess in the webroot, it was like it wasn’t being looked at.

Thanks.

Not worth the effort? All you have to do is create a couple new files to grab the WP header/footer, add the php include lines to the mg2 skin you want to use and modify a .css file to match the look…

Besides somebody actually doing the work of integration for you, it doesn’t get much easier, and there is a step by step tutorial for you to follow that I have written as I have helped a few people integrate it successfully now.

I copied searchform.php from the default directory into the Green directory and it works fine, just change the kubrick-searchform.php to read searchform.php

I also have had success in wrapping an image gallery within WP. I am running mg2 within WordPress 1.5.

I wrote a tutorial on how to incorporate this product into the default theme for WP, but as you can see by my gallery, it is possible to incorporate it into any theme.

https://chrispayne.homeip.net/photos

Chris

Stuartfield,

I have sent the info to Basilisk. After setting up a dev environment with a new wordpress install, mg2, and using the Gespaa theme, I determined that:

If you are following my documentation, the following are the changes requried:

In mg2header.php you only require the following:

<?php
require(‘/path_to/wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);
get_header();
?>

mg2footer.php is a single line:

<?php get_footer(); ?>

Thanks very much…

Paris,

I now have a tutorial on my site (mg2 will also be hosting it) about how to do it. It should be fairly straightforward to follow and hopefully there isn’t too many errors…

Chris

Unfortunately no, the image gallery mg2 comes with its own full featured webbased admin interface

For the curious, here are some of its features (from the website):

It supports multiple image upload & FTP image upload, automatic thumbnail generation, image rotating feature, template and skin support, displays EXIF image information, supports image titles, descriptions and user comments, works in PHP safe mode, and is XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS valid.

And no, I don’t work for the company, I am just a happy user now that I have been able to get it integrated into WP with my exif info displaying the way I wanted…

I have been able to get mg2 (the latest version of minigal https://www.minigal.dk/) integrated into WordPress 1.5 and I will be writting a little tutorial to submit to that site… It is fairly painless, check it out and let me know what you think… https://chrispayne.homeip.net/photos/

MiddleKid,

I have now been able to accomplish the task. I am sure there are different ways to accomplist it, but this works nicely. In a nutshell:

I have wordpress in /web/wordpress and mg2 in /web/wordpress/photos

I am using a custom theme so I copied the contents of wp-content/themes/name/index.php from the top of the file up to and including the line <div id=”content”> and saved that to wordpress/photos/mgheader.php.

I then made a file that contains:
</div>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
</div>
and saved that as /web/wordpress/photos/mgfooter.php.

Now, whatever theme you are using for mg2, the important files are found in mg2_dir/skins/skin_name/templates and we will edit viewimage_begin and _end.php as well as thumbnails_begin and _end.php.

In the thumbnails_begin.php and viewimage_begin.php go to around line 27 and you will see <body class=”mg2body”> well right below that line enter: <?php include (“/full_path_to_wordpress/photos/mg2header.php”); ?>

In thumbnails_end.php and viewimage_end.php right before the </body> at the end enter a line that says <?php include(“/full_path_to_wordpress/photos/mg2footer.php”); ?>

Of course, I am trying to remember everything off the top of my noodle that I did last night but that is the bulk of it. You will probably need to edit the mg2_dir/skins/skin_name/css/style.css to adjust some values to make it all fit.

Give it a try and let me know how it works out for you…

Sorry, I though it was a popular product. mg2 (https://www.minigal.dk/index.php) is the latest version of minigal wich is an image gallery program that has good support for exif information.

I have had some assistance from who has integrated the product into EBA-News Beta 7 but when I tried the same php include for the header file he used, it wouldn’t work. I have tried different things like using the WP get_header function or using a php include to wp-blog-header.php but am not having success.

If anybody who has used mg2 they will notice there are “header” and “footer” type files under the templates directory. Apparently the key is to edit the imageview and thumbnail begin/end php scripts to use the includes but I have had no luck.

Thanks.

The color of the text (#333333) makes it impossible to read agains the background (#663333)

In Firefox, using a resolution of 1600×1200 the dates for the first 2 entries are overlapped by the sidebar which is actually in the middle of the page. I have a screenshot I was going to send you but couldn’t find any contact information on your new webiste or at pbase…

This is wierd, I have tried the @n_mail function and then changed back to the defaults and tried the changes in .diff above and still no dice. This is a box I have here under my own control. I don’t see any traffic going out but WP is still saying the use registration was sent.

Since I am running this on my own box, how can I confirm it works? I have looked and don’t see any hits on my firewall so that isn’t blocking it. WP says it sends it, I don’t see any traffic or any entries in the message or syslog about errors. Where is it going? Help!