Invision Board + G2

wow I planned purchasing Invision Gallery, so I don't have two user-db's etc.. I've used G2 before, so if there is a port I would love to use it. But what's so bad about Invision Gallery then ?

just hope for the best, I haven't seen any new updates for this one, it's sad.

it's been ignored... ah well.. we just use hacked logins for general entry and hope that someday gallery offer a true integration again...

this is really sad, still no updates.
as much as many of us wants to use G2 (and possibly others want to donate), but with no integration support available (be it official or community-unofficial), most will just use other gallery applications who are now closely running at par with G2, I guess I don't need to mention what those are.
I guess with all that waiting, its a sealed deal to use G2's stiff competitor.

I am dieing for a legit gallery script.. Coppermine sux balls but it has IPB intergration... Please, developers, bump bump bump. :'(

we'll gladly provide guidance to anyone who wants to work on this..

Also vote for this request: http://gallery.menalto.com/sfvote/vote/1504051

Things have been busy and hectic so I haven't had a lot of time to devote to this project. I've been working with MK Portal and a few other websites. MK Portal integrates with IPB 2.x and it has a module for Gallery that integrates with it. That has been the best solution.

I had to abandon the integration I was doing because every version of IPB there have been changes which require more changes to the modification. There is a way to create a module for IPB so it isn't effect by future updates but my experience is limited as I'm just a beginner. The last version we had running with 2.0.4 required a lot of hacks and editing and wasn't a viable solution. When they moved from 2.0.1 to 2.0.4 because I didn't have the time I had to hire an outsourced programmer to update it. Now that we are going to 2.1.7, I can't keep hiring a programmer to do another update so I stopped work on it.

The best method would be for someone more experienced to look at the module system in IPB. Then figure out how to intergrate Gallery with that module system so it isn't effected as much by forum updates.

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Shadow_Wolf, thanks for putting the time you've spent into this project. I hope to see a release soon. You got to save IPB members from Coppermine! :'( I'm using it now as my gallery script intergrated with IPB and the users hate it. My primary complaint is that the uploading script for Coppermine is rediculous! People just want to upload a bunch of images and put into one album at one time! I hate uploading a bunch of images, then individually selecting each album to drop them in... Oh plus the group intergration with Coppermine is retarded, user albums has a bunch of bugs too...

In conclusion, I hope that you can release this intergration! I really want to support G2 after using it for a few projects in the past!

Just come along today as I was possibly thinking of giving free galleries out to my donating members through there forum account on invision board. I made a module for my own site a couple of years back, I was a novice at PHP coding or still am so it might be pretty crappy code but basically it allows my visitors to access some downloads on my site whilst authenticating them against the IPB database and still works with the current 2.2 version.

It looks for the cookie and then checks the password against the database, if the cookie doenst exist gives them a username/password box and after authenticated sets the cookie, heres the code :-

<?
$cookieurl = ".mpfspromotions.com";
session_start();
function cleanexit(){
	session_unset();
	session_destroy();
	Header("WWW-authenticate: basic realm=\"My Realm\"");
	Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
	include "http://www.mpfspromotions.com/failed.html";
	mysql_free_result($pa->db->result);
	mysql_close($pa->db->link);
	exit;
}
if(!$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] and !$_COOKIE['member_id']) {
	Header("WWW-authenticate: basic realm=\"My Realm\"");
	Header("HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized");
	include "http://www.mpfspromotions.com/failed.html";
	exit;
} else {
	$pa->db->name = "mpfs";
	$pa->db->host = "localhost";
	$pa->db->user = "";
	$pa->db->password = "";
	$pa->db->link = mysql_connect($pa->db->host, $pa->db->user, $pa->db->password) or die("Database Error [ref=1]");
	mysql_select_db($pa->db->name) or die("Database Error [ref=2]");
	if ($_COOKIE['member_id']) {
		$pa->db->query = "SELECT * FROM `ibf_members` WHERE `id` = " . $_COOKIE['member_id'];
		$pa->db->result = mysql_query($pa->db->query) or die("Database Error [ref=3]");
		$pa->db->val = mysql_fetch_object($pa->db->result);
		$pa->db->query = "SELECT * FROM `ibf_members_converge` WHERE `converge_id` = " . $pa->db->val->id;
		$pa->db->result = mysql_query($pa->db->query) or die("Database Error [ref=3]");
		$pa->db->val2 = mysql_fetch_object($pa->db->result);
		if ($pa->db->val->member_login_key != $_COOKIE['pass_hash']){
			setcookie ("member_id", "0", time() - 3600, "/", "$cookieurl");
			setcookie ("pass_hash", "0", time() - 3600, "/", "$cookieurl");
			cleanexit();
		}
		if (!isset($_SESSION['pa_user'])){
			$_SESSION['pa_user'] = $pa->db->val->name;
		}
		if (!isset($_SESSION['pa_pass'])){
			$_SESSION['pa_pass'] = $pa->db->val2->converge_pass_hash;
		}
		if (!isset($_SESSION['pa_ip'])){
			//$_SESSION['pa_ip'] = md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
		}
	}else{
		if (!isset($_SESSION['pa_user'])){
			$_SESSION['pa_user'] = str_replace("'","&#39;",$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']);
			$_SESSION['pa_user'] = mysql_escape_string($_SESSION['pa_user']);
		}
		if (!isset($_SESSION['pa_ip'])){
			//$_SESSION['pa_ip'] = md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
		}
		$pa->db->query = "SELECT * FROM `ibf_members` WHERE `name` = '" . $_SESSION['pa_user'] . "';";
		$pa->db->result = mysql_query($pa->db->query) or die("Database Error [ref=3]");
		$pa->db->val = mysql_fetch_object($pa->db->result);
		$pa->db->query = "SELECT * FROM `ibf_members_converge` WHERE `converge_id` = " . $pa->db->val->id;
		$pa->db->result = mysql_query($pa->db->query) or die("Database Error [ref=3]");
		$pa->db->val2 = mysql_fetch_object($pa->db->result);
		if (!isset($_SESSION['pa_pass'])){
			$_SESSION['pa_pass'] = md5(md5($pa->db->val2->converge_pass_salt).md5($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW']));
		}
		if ($pa->db->val2->converge_pass_hash == $_SESSION['pa_pass']){
			setcookie ("member_id", $pa->db->val->id, time() + 60*60*24*365, "/", "$cookieurl");
			setcookie ("pass_hash", $pa->db->val->member_login_key, time() + 60*60*24*365, "/", "$cookieurl");
			normalexit();
		}
	}
	
	//$pa_ip1 = md5($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
	if($pa->db->val2->converge_pass_hash == $_SESSION['pa_pass']) {
	// and $pa_ip1 == $_SESSION['pa_ip']
		if ($pa->db->val->mgroup == 5){
			$_SESSION['pa_level'] = 1;
		}elseif($pa->db->val->mgroup == 6){
			$_SESSION['pa_level'] = 2;
		}elseif($pa->db->val->mgroup == 7 or $pa->db->val->mgroup == 4 or $pa->db->val->mgroup == 9 or $pa->db->val->mgroup == 11 or $pa->db->val->mgroup == 13){
			$_SESSION['pa_level'] = 3;
		}else{
			$_SESSION['pa_level'] = -1;
		}
	}else{
		cleanexit();
	}
	function normalexit() {
	    mysql_free_result($pa->db->result);
    	mysql_close($pa->db->link);
		flush();
	}
	normalexit();
}
?>

Hopefully it will be useful, if not dont shoot the messenger but I'm sure it should be as it has the correct tables and authentication methods as used in IPB and works fine for me

Well thats not an actual module for gallery, its a small module I made for including into other little applications I made to authenticate users before the applications were run. It just so happens that it was designed to authenticate against IPB so I thought maybe some of the techniques might aid others in designing a gallery module.

I might have a go at making the gallery module myself if noone else takes up the task, I just need to find time and be sure its something I need as time is hard to find these days!

So, I read through this thread, but I'm still confused. Is there a script that will integrate Gallery2 into the latest IPB release? IPB has a gallery add-on but it's clearly not as good as G2.

Thanks in advance!

http://www.gronkyco.com

That is a shame. As far as commercial boards go, I definitely think the new IPB is the best. I dare say it's even better than VB. I will make some noise on the IPB boards and see if anyone knows anything about a migration between Gallery and IPB.

I also agree the IPS gallery is awful.

http://www.gronkyco.com

maybe you should read this thread...

( http://gallery.menalto.com/node/27490?page=1#comment-195962 )

The best method for a G2 Integration with IP.Board is to use the new IP.Converge method. IP.Converge is no longer in beta and is packaged with IP.Board. It links multiple IP member databases together. Basically IP.Converge has its own member database, entries into it when they visit the other forums get created into those own forum databases (just in case you ever decide to unintegrate, member databases stay intact).

The way to go about it is to use what they do with their current forums and apply it to G2 by creating a Plugin for IP.Converge. From looking at other discussions and requests it is something that could be done but requiring an experienced PHP programmer.

From what I understand to start working on this and get it to work, you would need to utilize the converge_local folder located within the IP.Board base installation. That would need to be copied into the Gallery2 root directory and then modified to apply itself to G2 instead of IP.Board. The login process would need to be modified to send a XMLRPC request to IP.Converge. An example of how IP.Board does that can be found within sources/loginauth/converge/auth.php within the IP.Board base directory.

If someone is interested in working on this but does not have access to the converge_local or auth.php files, I can provide them for you. Even though this is technically against the EULA for IP Brandon and Charles are ok with it developers working providing we release the Plugin for others to use as well.

Documentation on the Converge XML-RPC process is here.

is this topic somehow continued?
is it possible to integrate IPB 3 and gallery2 or gallery3?