How-To integrate Gallery into Mambo

denniz · 23.09.2004, 09:36

Before, it took a whole day to find out how to integrate the great online webphoto album programme Gallery (from Menalto) into Mambo/Joomla. Those were the days of Mambo 4.5 and Gallery 1.4.1! I decided to write a How-To to make it easier for people to use this fantastic photo album inside the fantastic cms (Mambo). Now, more than 2 years later (july 2006), it is time for a rewrite:

A lot has changed: there's Gallery1 and Gallery2. BEWARE: this guide is NOT for Gallery2. Only for Gallery1. We owe many thanks to the developers of Gallery, since Gallery1 v1.5.2 it is a whole lot easier to integrate it into your favourite CMS. Something else has changed too: there's Mambo and there's Joomla. This How-To works for both. Just read Mambo instead of Joomla should you use that one. So here's how you do it:

1) Install Joomla (duh!)

2) Install Gallery. Make sure it works by itself. Take your time to work throught the installation steps. A few do's and don'ts: DO NOT put the gallery files in the directory joomla/components/com_gallery (then this method will not work). Instead, put your gallery files in joomla/gallery. Also, it is clever to create your albums folder in joomla/images/stories/albums. Now you should be able to use any of your gallery pictures in any content-item using the standard joomla media manager (great!

).

3) Test your gallery (upload pictures and stuff). Make sure it works.

4) Now it's time for integration with Joomla (the reason why you're reading this, right?). Log into the Administrator back-end of Joomla. Go to the Joomla 'Installers' and "install" Gallery as a Joomla component. That is the second option in the install-new-component screen. ("install from directory", the one you usually never use!), so DON'T use the option "upload as a package file".
Enter the directory that has the gallery.xml file in it
(eg. /home/mysite/public_html/gallery/contrib/joomla)

5) Don't leave your admin's backend! Go to the components and choose gallery. Here fill in the location of the gallery component. In other words, the exact directory where gallery is located on the webserver.
(eg. /home/mysite/public_html/gallery)

6) Specify the minimum Joomla admin level required to gain editor access to the gallery. So: what access level your Joomla user should have to be able to upload and manage pictures of Gallery.

7) Edit your main menu and add a new Component item. Select Gallery from the list of available components.
Joomla should do all the work of generating the link for you.

It's not hard, but I couldn't find directions anywhere on the web, hence my post here. Hope it works for you too.

Cheers,
denniz
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marga in denmark this site is now discontinued
some of the sites I have it working on

designsimply · 05.10.2004, 18:10

Nooo wonder I couldn't find it! The mambo component for gallery comes with the gallery files and is not downloaded separately like most mambo components. THANKS denniz!

sgtbueno · 15.10.2004, 15:52

OK, I have gallery and mambo working and I read the mambo.txt but I'm lost
This is the note:

Code:

Gallery >=1.4.3 work with Mambo 4.5

- Install Mambo >=4.5

- Install Gallery >=1.4.3

- Go to the Mambo component Managment and "install" Gallery as a Mambo component.
  Enter the directory that has the gallery.xml file in it
  (eg. /home/mysite/public_html/gallery/contrib/mambo)

- Go into the component/gallery backend and fill in the location of the gallery component
  (eg. /home/mysite/public_html/gallery)

- Specify the minimum Mambo admin level required to gain editor access to the gallery

- Then add the Gallery component as URL at the place you want.


Note: Gallery will use the Language corresponding to the Country Locale specified by Mambo.

11.04.2004, Jens Tkotz

I always get this error when I try to install the component

Code:

nstallation file not found: /home/aguilas/public_html/html/components/gallery/contrib/mambo/

That is the correct path to the gallery.xml file

arakune · 25.10.2004, 19:37

Quote:

Originally Posted by sgtbueno

I always get this error when I try to install the component

Code:

nstallation file not found: /home/aguilas/public_html/html/components/gallery/contrib/mambo/

That is the correct path to the gallery.xml file

I've been experiencing the exact same problem. I've made sure that the webserver has permission to look in my ~contrib/mambo directory, but no dice.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has come across a fix for this problem?

Kai · 26.10.2004, 21:00

Hi,

download the Component for Gallery from here and install the zip-file like a normal Component.
The problem with the installer is fixed in the Gallery 1.4.5-cvs.

Kai

skope · 30.10.2004, 22:59

Hi there, I am trying to integrate my gallery db with my mambo db. So far i have mambo running (halcyondaze.net) and i have gallery installed at-
public_html/modules/gallery and it werks fine, but it's a seperate db to mambo right? so i did what was suggested (i think!) and i now have a com_gallery in; public_html/components . but how do i use it?
Now what should i do? Is this public_html/modules/gallery still my gallery? or can i scrap that one and use the one in 'components'?
I'm a bit confused how to tell mambo to use this new gallery i just installed and if i should delete my older one? (in modules) - so i can integrate my database for gallery with mambo..
thanks heaps if anyone can help me out..

mom2nine · 31.10.2004, 03:18

the install went GREAT, but I'm hung on the full server path, too. According to what I see on the server, it should be home/username/public_html/components/com_gallery but it doesn't want to take that. I tried with and without the trailing forward slash, no luck.

Then I found this wonderful little CGI script to put on the server that would show me the full path and a lot of other goodies. Voila!! The path was /home/username/public_html/components/com_gallery The little forward slash before home was the culprit.

BUT......now that it's all set up, HOW do I add images and create albums??

skope · 31.10.2004, 03:25

hi mate, i think i went thru that and werked out-
goto-
Global Configuration (in site tab) in ya mambo admin and then to the server tab to get the absolute path...
hth's

....Yeah so i think i upgraded gallery, it says- Powered by Gallery v1.4.4-pl2 is that right? So now is it using the same DB as mambo for users? Or do i have to do something else? Bit confused.. thnx

www.halcyondaze.net
thnx

skope · 31.10.2004, 04:04

ahh got it. u add fotos by loggin in and usin gthe 'add fotos' on the right.

mom2nine · 31.10.2004, 05:32

Wait! Maybe the light is starting to break at last! I assumed from this thread that the gallery zip file I downloaded and installed in Mambo was the Gallery component. Are you saying I need to install Gallery conventionally, but this component provides a Mambo-based interface to Gallery? That would explain a lot of things!