Mambo + G2 Document

Mambo+G2 FAQ and Document

This topic will function as a gathering of info and putting together a FAQ and Documenten on embedding Gallery2 into Mambo. This will also contain a help file on the component and detailed description what everything means and does!

For this I ask you all to post questions and their answers if you know them, that are commonly ask. You also can contribute tutorial on many subjects regarding G2+mambo. Example: how to load different templates for different sub albums or how to link to a sub album. I’ll gather all info and make links here in this first post and ship the most up to date FAQ and Document with the component for back-end viewing.

So please help make this the most easily and user-friendly Gallery component Mambo can have!

FAQ

1. Where can I find the most resent files?

Table of contents

1. Install procedure:
   
   • The actual install.
   • Install messages explained.
   • Configuration explained.
2. Back-End overview
   
   • Tools
   • Gallery user management
   • Gallery album management
3. Front-end overview
   
   • css+template adjustments
   • Sidebar adjustments
4. Modules
   
   • mod_gallery_block
   • mod_album_tree
   • mod_gallery_stats(not relaised)
   • mod_gallery_comment(not relaised)
   • mod_gallery_lastvisit(not relaised)

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chapter: Back-end overview, component version 2.0.6 or higher

Tools:
You have 3 tools you can use here and most likely 2 of them you will use after install, because they sync your mambo user base and groups to Gallery2. The first is quit important if you want your mambo users to view as users and not as guests. If you don’t do this, users that haven’t visited the gallery2 component will not exist in the gallery2 database and strange things will happen with modules outside the component page.
The last tool is there to remove the user groups if they are useless or you just want to get rite of them.

Using Mambo groups:
I’ll explain a bit about how you can use the user groups from mambo.
First, when you have synced the groups, the groups won’t have any specific rights attached to them. So don’t you worry about all those administrators you just synced.
Second, The users are synced only to there highest group they have access to. So they only exist in 2 groups: highest mambo group and “Registered Users

chapter: Back-end overview, component version 2.0.6 or higher

Album Management

An overview of your gallery is given here, in a tree form. It will give you some data like: Last modified, warnings and album name. The warnings are self-explaining and can be handled by clicking on the album name it belongs to. This will bring up more specifics about that album and you can adjust title, keywords, summary and description. It will also show the current album highlight. Further more it will show links to parent album, child albums and a link to the owner of this album.

KAC,

thxs!

michiel

empath,

what is your gallery2 core version?

did you download from http://galleryupdates.jpmullan.com/G2/

Regards,
Michiel

I think the problem is the path to mambo.

it should just be . or /

but it will only let me put in /mambo/

Let's say that the path is correct, in my example:

/home/savagec1/public_html/components/com_gallery2

Yet it still give the "full path" error, even when the other path of /home/savagec1/public_html/administrator/components/com_gallery2 is given.

Edit to add:
Yes it's still able to find userfuncs.php in the Tools portion.

Silly me, I thought installing the gallery2 component would actually install it.

So I ftp gallery2 and give it the full path of
/home/savagec1/public_html/gallery2 and /home/savagec1/public_html
...and both bomb.

Hi,

I got the same issue

My setup is a clean install of
- mambo 4.5.2.3
- g2 beta 4
- g2 component v2.0.6

I point the full path to the g2 beta 4 directory /home/w/westin/www/g2

G2 is running OK at [url]westin.nu/g2[/url]
Mambo is running OK at [url]westin.nu/cms[/url]

I still get the "Full path to Gallery2 is inorrect!" message

What am I missing?

Thanks for any input
Kind regards,
Thomas

savagecat,

don't understand your Q?

Regards,
Michiel

michiel_1981,

Your test site shows the Gallery 2 sidebar with the tree navigation. While I can get Gallery to do this natively I can't get the side bar to show it. I have seen a link to mod_album_tree in this thread but can't find it anywhere. Is this the answer to my quest?

Keep up the good work!

I've got
Gallery 2 b4
mod_galleryside_v2.3.zip
com_gallery2_v2.0.6.zip
mambo 4.5.2

However I'm also seeing wierd stuff in that I can go into G2 native and change the [blocks] [album select] [selector type] and and nothing seems to happen. I'm running two sites and what works on one is not the same on the other. I need to do a bit more investigating to see if the issue is with the componenet, G2 or my brain.

Thanks a lot, the trailing slash solved it! I tried this at some stage also, but the problem is that when you hit save, the field is emptied. Then you get the next message about the relative path and the same thing there, hit save and the field is emptied. Easy to miss that the error message has changed when you have tried ten different ways already... Also with the mambo path.

Suggestion: Some info in the config form about a trailing slash would be good since pwd in putty etc doesn't give that. Also, if the fields could be verified in a step by step manner, as a wizard would help a lot, or at least some info about the above

Kind regards,
Thomas

I've been scratching my head with the integration for a few hours and I was seeing this error as well as not getting the pictures showing and the album links were wrong. It finally occurred to me to disable the url rewrite functions in G2 and it all came good including getting rid of the error you are seeing above.

I take it using url rewrite in combination with the mambo component is not allowed, or is there someting in the configuration that can be tweaked to allow it to work correctly?

John

Hi,

OK I disabled the two boxes that were checked in G2 / URL Rewrite (it was Show Object and Download objects) -Is this the way to disable it correctly? I still get the error in the Mambo component / Album management.

Also, if anyone could please tell me (a G2/Mambo newbie) how to unblock a user (see my previous post). Thanks,

/Thomas

buddhaboa,

short urls, are giving problem, try setting it off for gallery2 in mambo and in gallery2.
I managed to get it working on 2 different sites, but it was a pain in the butt. I'm writing instructions on this until and a good clean configuration.

hints:
look at your embedded gallery2 short urls settings!
make sure the gallery2 rules come in front off mambo rules
debug and rewrite any errors in the rules

[edit]
Don't use wrapper, use component link!

goodluck,
Michiel

Hi there

I got the URLs to work given your feedback. Just tried integrating the gallery2 sidebar and I get this error when I go to my gallery:

Error Detail -
Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE)

    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage/DatabaseStorage.class at line 1411 (gallerystatus::error)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryStorage.class at line 365 (mysqldatabasestorage::updatemapentry)
    * in modules/core/classes/interfaces/GalleryItemAttributesMap.inc at line 159 (gallerystorage::updatemapentry)
    * in modules/core/classes/helpers/GalleryItemAttributesHelper_simple.class at line 52 (galleryitemattributesmap::updatemapentry)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryCoreApi.class at line 1106 (galleryitemattributeshelper_simple::incrementviewcount)
    * in modules/core/ShowItem.inc at line 107 (gallerycoreapi::incrementitemviewcount)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryTheme.class at line 645 (showitemview::loadtemplate)
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryView.class at line 285 (matrixtheme::loadtemplate)
    * in main.php at line 285 (showitemview::doloadtemplate)
    * in main.php at line 87
    * in modules/core/classes/GalleryEmbed.class at line 155
    * in /home/buddhab/public_html/modules/mod_galleryside.php at line 20 (galleryembed::handlerequest)
    * in /home/buddhab/public_html/includes/frontend.html.php at line 231
    * in /home/buddhab/public_html/includes/frontend.php at line 122 (modules_html::module2)
    * in /home/buddhab/public_html/templates/test1/index.php at line 57
    * in /home/buddhab/public_html/index.php at line 221

System Information
Gallery version 	2.0-beta-4+
PHP version 	4.3.11 cgi
Webserver 	Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_auth_passthrough/1.8 mod_log_bytes/1.2 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7a PHP-CGI/0.1b
Database 	mysql 4.0.25-standard
Operating system 	Linux unix15.vizaweb.com 2.4.21-27.0.4.ELsmp #1 SMP Sat Apr 16 18:43:06 EDT 2005 i686
Browser 	Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

Both the image block and the sidebar give errors in my mambo site. The Com Link now works though :P

Thanks michiel_1981

I did the buffered option and pasted the output into the bin. Here is the link:
http://gallery.pastebin.com/326694

I hope you can figure out a fix for this...I am sure it is something I did wrong

Good Point Valiant,

Here is the error I get with the Gallery2 Sidebar http://gallery.pastebin.com/326828

Here is the error I get with the Mambo Gallery2 Image Block: http://gallery.pastebin.com/326832

Final problem is the gallery2 looks very small and compressed inside my mambo - I looked at teh various themes but cannot get it to appear as nice as with the Demo Site that michiel_1981 has is integrated on.

Does Gallery2 NEED to be in the same Database as my mambo instance? Currently it is in a separate database...

Hi Michiel

I will work on the matrix theme and try to make it look as nice as you did - unless you can share what you have done already?

Any hints on what I did wrong to generate the Errors in the Gallery2 Image Block and Gallery2 Sidebar?

aravot,

pm me your e-mail adress and i'll send i to you.

regards,
Michiel

I solved my problems myself. I had not to setup G2 component correctly (mirror users and the two following boxes need to be set to Yes...)

/Thomas

Hi!

I have just installed Gallery2 beta4 and it works great.
Now I want to integrate it with mambo but get error on.Full Path to Gallery G2. I have tried several combination but I'm not really shure about what the Full path is.
I have installed it in c:/inetpub/www/gallery2 folder, and the g2data folder is in c:\g2data.

Witch one is the Full Path to Gallery G2: ????? :-?

Please help... / Tom

Can some please help me find the path to what this is asking

1. Full Path to Gallery G2:
2. Relative path to Gallery G2:
3. Path to Mambo:

My ftp to the compent is
ftp://smilepolice.id.au/public_html/components/com_gallery2/

sorry but my confusion remains ;)

Is the full server path to Gallery 2 = http://blabla.com/gallery2/main.php ????

michiel_1981

I guess this is what u want.
Just posted the first 10 lines.
The Gallery2 installation is c:\Inetpub\www\gallery2

This site is running on a local network.
The server is as u can see a Windows Web Server
---code----
<?php
$mosConfig_offline = '0';
$mosConfig_host = 'localhost';
$mosConfig_user = '*****';
$mosConfig_password = '*****';
$mosConfig_db = 'mambo';
$mosConfig_dbprefix = 'mos_';
$mosConfig_lang = 'english';
$mosConfig_absolute_path = 'C:/Inetpub/www/mambo';
$mosConfig_live_site = 'http://localhost/Mambo';
$mosConfig_sitename = 'testsite';
---end code----