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Inline/Embedded photo album - is it possible?

1 May 19, 2005 04:43    

Hi there - I've scoured the forums, found very little info on this.

I am setting up a photo album on my site and would like to embed it into the framework of B2E. I haven't seen any definitive answers to this situation.

I'm currently using Coppermine but could easily switch to another product that would be easier to work with. I did see someone mention that they were trying to get Singapore working as an 'inline' album, but he never responded so I don't know if that worked out for him.

By embedded/inline, I mean that I want the photos/album list(s) to come up in the main area of the page - header, skin and sidebar stays in place. Much like what would happen when you click on a specific category, statistics, or "last comments".

I did see one suggestion to add into your main.php file the extra 'case' statement which would call the albums index.php file, but when I do this and click the link that would call it, the page never loads.

Have any of you been able to accomplish this with success? I do have coppermine working as a second blog link, but this isn't my ideal setup. It's basically going to a second, totally seperate page and doesn't feel integrated in any way.

I suppose I'll give Singapore a shot.. maybe the guy never responded because he got it working and figured he didn't have to respond back. :-)

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2 May 20, 2005 15:47

I'm using [url=http://gallery.menalto.com/]Menalto Gallery[/url] on [url=http://www.brendoman.com/dbc]my site[/url]. Click on the link at the top that says 'Photos.' I also have a random photo from the gallery in my blog sidebar. The gallery is not truly embedded. I've just set it up to match the look of b2evolution skin. This is pretty easy with Gallery. I just dropped some code into a couple of special files in the html_wrap folder of my gallery install. I can't include the sidebar, or anything that's dynamically generated by b2evo, but I wanted all of the space for photos anyway.

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3 May 22, 2005 21:28

How did you get the random photo to appear on your sidebar?

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4 May 22, 2005 21:40

That's a feature of Gallery. There's a php file called block-random.php and I included it in my b2evolution skin with 

<?php include("http://www.personman.com/gallery/block-random.php") ?>

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5 May 22, 2005 22:01

Awesome! Thanks alot.

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6 May 23, 2005 17:05

To insert photos in your blog, you can use cpgfetch available in coppermine plugins

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7 Aug 10, 2005 14:00

I've followed your advice about using Gallery and changing the template to look like B2evo.

I'm using Menalto Gallery on my site. Click on the link at the top that says 'Photos.'

The problem is I can't figure out how to link to my external link from the tabs at the top of my blog page as you've done on your site.

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8 Feb 22, 2006 02:57

I'd like to revisit this oooooold post, sorry if i missed another one with the answer but here's my question so you don't have to read the whole thread.

I'd like to add an option to the top bar of blogs, basically I'd like to mirror the setup @ http://www.brendoman.com/dbc and steal the code to put the bloglist at the top of my gallery as well.

I'll continue to research and post my findings as this is probably for others too.

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