add "view this albums comments" for each album in

ok.. it has come down to me begging for help. All I want to do is add a link that allows anyone to view the comments in a album from the main gallery page..

just like the link on this webpage. http://www.tnatech.com/gallery **this is not my webpage and I hope I don't get in trouble for adding it here for reference** I just wanted to show everyone, exactly what I am looking for. If I am not supposed to do that ... someone please delete this post.

Anyhow... I want to add a this option for my viewers. I searched the forums and did some research... honest... and I seen lots of options.. . but not the one I am looking for.

If anyone has the time and knowledge to assist me, that would be super cool. :D Thanks, Angel

Hi! Angel here. Thanks for responding to my post. It means a lot that people like yourself with the knowledge you have helping out the less fortunate! I followed your instructions.... I messed up along the way. The link is there, but pointing to a dead end. I listed what I did below.

step 1 - in view_comments.php

I changed this code:
if (!$gallery->user->isAdmin() && !$gallery->user->isOwnerOfAlbum($gallery->album)) {

to this code:
if (!$gallery->user->canReadAlbum($gallery->album)) {

Step 2 - adding the link - in albums.php

I found this code:
<br>
<?php if (strcmp($gallery->app->default["showOwners"], "no")) { ?>

and inserted this code:
<span class="fineprint">
<a href=' . makeGalleryUrl("view_comments.php", {$tmpAlbumName}) . '>[View This Albums Comments]</a></span>
<br>

making it look like this after I added:
<br>
<span class="fineprint">
<a href=' . makeGalleryUrl("view_comments.php", {$tmpAlbumName}) . '>[View This Albums Comments]</a>
</span>
<br>
<?php if (strcmp($gallery->app->default["showOwners"], "no")) { ?>

So what do you think?
Thanks for visiting my website!! More girlish looks to come! :D
Angel

thanks for all of your help.
I just can't seem to get it working.. and I am making things worse getting errors...
I probably should stop while I am ahead... before gallery explodes on my desk top!!
Thanks again,
Angel

As you can see, I'm not really a PHP programmer, and I usually work with trial-and-error ;)

In your page, the albumName doesn't get printed. Why? Because I forgot the print command :roll:

So try changing
<a href='view_comments.php?albumName=<?php $tmpAlbumName ?>'>[View This Albums Comments]</a></span>
to <a href='view_comments.php?albumName=<?php print $tmpAlbumName ?>'>[View This Albums Comments]</a></span>

Have a nice day!

Okey dokey! I got it working now. :D

BorgKing - I did the last thing you suggested, and I received the error still.
KenB also left me some options and I got the view comments working with that. Yippieee! However now I have the IP addresses next to the comments which I don't like much. So I am off to research that.

If you know how to remove the IP let me know, that would be the icing on the cake!

Thank so much for your help guys! Its is much appreciated. Go take a look at the gallery if you like http://www.totallyangel.com/Gallery/ you can click the view comments link and it works!! Thanks to you guys!
:D Angel

The IP address only shows when you are logged in as admin. Regular visitors won't see the IP address.

I see what you are talking about now...

The file that does this is commentbox.inc in the layout folder.

Look for this: (line 5 for Gallery 1.3.4.)...

From: <?php echo $comment->getName() ?> @ <?php echo removeTags($comment->getIPNumber())?> (<?php echo $comment->getDatePosted() ?>)

And change it to this:
From: <?php echo $comment->getName() ?> (<?php echo $comment->getDatePosted() ?>)

Hope that does the trick!

P.S. This will remove the display of the IP address even for admins, but only on the View Comments pages. The IP address will still be displayed (only for admins) on the full-size pic pages where the comments are displayed below the pic.

Has anyone gotten this mod to work with 1.4 RC2? Still is only letting the admin see the mod, and I don't think it's bringing up the comments on the sub-album view page correctly.

UPDATE (9/4/03): I had to open and close the scripting tags to be able to add the mod in albums.php in the correct place, so now all users can see it. I'm still not sure if this is working as intended though. It'd be nice if there was an additional indicator on the sub-albums page IF there are comments available, or the time/date of the most recent comments... visible on the sub-album page.

Chris, I'm not quite clear about your last post.

What link is visible only to the admin for your site? Is it the link at the top-right when you're viewing an album?

It'd be nice to have an indicator on the sub-albums page that shows which albums had comments available, rather than just the ability to blindly "View comments for this nested album".... perhaps even just adding the * on the sub-album page to indicate if there are comments available in a particular sub-album. Anyone have ideas of how to do this?

Thanks Joan,

I wasn't aware that these features had been implemented in 1.4.1. Guess I'll have to finally learn how to use CVS.

ODiN,

It wasn't in 1.4.1 when you made the request

And CVS: sorry about that, the anonymous server lags the writable server by a substantial margin. Keep checking and also keep an eye on http://www.jpmullan.com/galleryupdates

thank you KenB and BorgKing very much for this hack!

it worked immediatly on my site! www.kingkluge.de

hi,

i have made the changes, and while logged in as admin it works great.
as soon as I am anonymous, I get the follwing error:

Fatal error: Call to a member function on a non-object in /home/www/de.pgt/html_privat/modules/gallery/classes/User.php on line 240

i am not sure where it comes from. testing on today cvs checkout...

agilos:

Glad you got it working, and thanks for the detailed how-to!

-Beckett (

)

am working on a comment counter so that you 'll see a number which indicates the total comments inside of a albums.

I'll post it here as soon as I get it done.
( it's gonna be after my final exams though ... which is within 2 days )

*** update: this heck is also work for gallery_1.4.2-b74 -- tested ***

as I promised, here is the code and steps :

/**
* hack: recursively count the total number of comments in a album (gallery)
* Author: Travis Wu
* Email:

* Date: Nov 26, 2003
* the code below partially are from the posts in this forum, thanks for
* whoever helped.
*/

this will give you:

- view comment link on the right side of
"Last comment xx/xx/xxxx." so that everybody can
check the comments.

- total number of comments on the right side of [View]

- total number of comments in each nested album

- the view comments link shows up when the album has comments > 0

steps:

1) gallery/layout/commentboxtop.inc
find
<?php if ($gallery->user->isAdmin() || $gallery->user->isOwnerOfAlbum($myAlbum)) { ?>

replace it with :
<?php if ($gallery->user->canReadAlbum($gallery->album)) { ?>

find
<br><a href="<?php echo makeGalleryUrl("view_comments.php", array("set_albumName" => $myAlbumName)) ?>">[<?php echo _("view comments for this nested album"); ?></a>

replace it with

<br><a href="<?php echo makeGalleryUrl("view_comments.php", array("set_albumName" => $myAlbumName)) ?>">[<?php          echo _("view comments for this nested album"). " <font color=\"ff0000\">(".$myAlbum->commentRecursiveCount().")</font>"?>]</a>
    

2) gallery/view_comments.php
find
if (!$gallery->user->isAdmin() && !$gallery->user->isOwnerOfAlbum($gallery->album)) {
replace it with
if (!$gallery->user->canReadAlbum($gallery->album)) {

3) gallery/albums.php
find
print lastCommentString($lastCommentDate, $displayCommentLegend);
add the following after it:

  if (lastCommentString($lastCommentDate, $displayCommentLegend ) != ""){
	print
        " <a href=".
        makeGalleryUrl("view_comments.php", array("set_albumName" => $tmpAlbumName)).
         "> <font color=\"ff0000\">[</font>View<font color=\"ff0000\">]</font></a>".
         "  Total: " . "<font color=\"ff0000\">".
         $gallery->album->commentRecursiveCount()."</font>";  // add the comment counter
      } 

4) gallery/classes/Album.php
find

  function isRoot() { 
             if ($this->fields["parentAlbumName"]) return 0;
             else return 1;
        } 

add the following after it

   function countComment($i) {
	       	$photo = $this->getPhoto($i);
	       	if ($photo->isAlbumName) {
		       	$album = $this->getNestedAlbum($i);
		       	return $album->commentRecursiveCount();
	       	} else {
		       	return $photo->numComments($photo);
	       	}
	}
	function commentRecursiveCount() {
	       	$count = $this->numPhotos(1);
		$commentCount = 0;
	       	for ($i = 1; $i <= $count; $i++) {
			$commentCount += $this->countComment($i);
	       	}
		return $commentCount;
	}
   

done!!

I am using the newest version of Gallery (v1.4.2-cvs-b30) from CVS.
however, it should work w/ 1.4.1 and other version as well.

If you have any problem, let me know.

Efurban,

Good job on the added count feature though I cant find where Im supposed to apply step 3. That piece of code doesnt seem to be in Gallery v1.4-pl2. Let me know if its an oversight by my part.

Thanks

Thanks eveybody for reply me back. :P

did you solve your problem agilos ?

You probably wanna update your gallery to a newer version .

well, it's not hard to get it working for your version as well.

Let me know.

Well thanks efurban but i have 1.4.1 gallery from 25th November ( the one i was pointed out to download )

" Fatal error: Call to undefined function: commentrecursivecount() in C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs\albums.php on line 421 "

I did all the steps ( 1 , 2 ,3 , 4 ... ) and i see red star leading me from album to sub album and then to image that has comment. but nothing like you mentioned. Can you please see what's up with our version (1.4.1) ?

When i remove what you added in step 3 ( gallery/albums.php ) i can see my all my albums and red star leading saying " this item contains comments". When i put it in what you added in step 3 , i get that error and i loose some albums in main gallery.

thanks for help !

Nevermind, I figured it out

Can anyone help me with this please?

Thanks! I guess I need to pay more attention next time I am copying and pasting! Sometimes it just takes another set of eyes checking it out.

Hi guys,
i love this simple and usefull hack but i can't get it working with my 1.4.3 gallery. I've changed everything and double checked but i can't see neighter results nor errors
www.mcgrelio.com/bin/gallery

Does this hack work with gallery 1.4.3?
Thx

Commnents were enabled on my gallery but comments_indication was set to "photos" and not "both". After having changed that to "both" it works.
Now I want the "[" and the counter to be binded to the css. Those characters are red while i want them (except for the "*") looking like the css tells.
Any ideas?
BTW... THX A LOT!

If you look on your page your album called upload does not have any comments. So it does not have a link to the comments page.
Or do you mean you want to have a page with just comments? If so there is a great mod called stats.php. It will allow you to have comments sorted in order as well as most comments etc... Check it out:
http://gallery.menalto.com/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=13560&highlight=stats

I don't have many hidden albums so I will have to experiment. But the mod only shows the link if the user can view the album if (!$gallery->user->canReadAlbum($gallery->album)) { Can you explain a bit more. You could change the code to say logged in if you wish.

Dave