How do you create a new gallery?

phil1011

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 9
Posted: Tue, 2002-08-20 15:10

Hi,

I just started using Gallery. I know how to make albums. But I don't see any buttons to make a new gallery to contain a different set of albums.

I can make as many galleries as I want right? But where's the interface to do that?

Phil
 
muggles
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Joined: 2002-08-19
Posts: 22
Posted: Tue, 2002-08-20 15:29

If I understand you correctly, what you want requires an additional install of gallery in a seperate folder. Without lot's of code changes, this is the only way.
 
phil1011

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 9
Posted: Tue, 2002-08-20 17:52

Really?? That's sounds like too much trouble.

I read in the Users Guide/Gallery Features/Summary:

"A Gallery is a collection of photo albums. You can have as many Galleries as you want on your web server. Each gallery contains as many photo albums as you want. Configuration of Gallery and administration of the photo albums is done entirely via an intuitive, web interface..."

So I thought I could create galleries as easily as albums.

Phil
 
bharat
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Posted: Tue, 2002-08-20 18:04
Quote:
You can have as many Galleries as you want on your web server.

That's 100% accurate, though I can see how it might be misleading.

If you want multiple Gallery applications on your server, you have to install it multiple times. The above statement is just saying that Gallery does not restrict you from installing it multiple times.

Quote:
That's sounds like too much trouble.

Well, the beauty of open source is that it's possible for anybody to make improvements. Look on the contributed code page, I think there's a multisite hack there that might do what you want.
 
phil1011

Joined: 2002-08-15
Posts: 9
Posted: Thu, 2002-08-22 07:01

I see that people are working around this by using nested albums. An album can be either a collection of photos or a collection of albums (nested).

Thank you for your response.
 
kacheng

Joined: 2003-07-20
Posts: 28
Posted: Fri, 2004-02-13 17:53

Does anyone have a link to the Gallery multisite hack??

I want to have a couple of galleries, but i'd like to be able to upgrade them in one place.

i.e. One gallery 'engine' and all the albums in other directories as required.

Any ideas?

Thanks
 
floridave
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Joined: 2003-12-22
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Posted: Fri, 2004-02-13 18:20

kacheng,
Yet again Mindless has somthing to say:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=600310&group_id=7130&atid=307130

It is a bit of cutting and pasting but it does work. The diff files are a bit hard to read if you have to do it by hand.

Dave
 
kacheng

Joined: 2003-07-20
Posts: 28
Posted: Fri, 2004-02-13 18:26

nice one thanks

have you used this patch?

i'm wondering if users can customize their skins....
offhand does anyone know if gallery 1.4.2 allows you to have a different skin per album?
 
floridave
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Posted: Fri, 2004-02-13 20:45

kacheng,
I haveve not used this patch I have several installs on the same server. I have tried other things Mindless has done, and not had any trouble with them.
Give it a go and report back....

I can't answer the 1.4.2 question, sorry.

Dave
 
kacheng

Joined: 2003-07-20
Posts: 28
Posted: Fri, 2004-02-13 21:40

Ok, I'll try it out and see what happens.

Thanks for your help.