Gallery Remote module

hello-

by using the gallery remote you gain additional functionality on the front end-
but your images are still drupal nodes.

gallery 2.0 is of course a different application-
even if it is bridged by the drupal module.

i have used both- and vastly prefer the drupal system for images.

I am not using the Gallery server software on my sites. With ONE posible remote exception, I am not likely to be using it in the near future for any of my sites. The front end to upload is sufficient for my needs and a nice, unexpected surprise.

Pros... easier Drupal upgrade path as we progress further
Cons.... I have no plans to use Gallery.
Hope Walkah stays involved enough to update it.

-sp
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since i actually maintain both image.module and the drupal integration for gallery2, i should comment:

the 2 tools are quite different

* gallery2 is everything you could want (and more) for online/web-based image management - it has a strong community surrounding it over at http://gallery.menalto.com , and gallery has a *lot* of users (between v1 and v2). lots of people are used to, prefer, or have enourmous galleries in the menalto version. the integration suits these folks well... (mostly ;) HOWEVER, you give up things like taxonomy for images, comments (unless you use gallery's comment system), etc... and in general the integration isn't as tight.

* image.module - is completely drupal native, and can be very closely integrated with drupal - each photo/image gets a node, and therefore all the things nodes can have (categories, comments, permissions, etc) .. however, there are lots of features in gallery2 that aren't (and may never be) in image.module . so it's a take your pick.

that said - bulk uploading - or simple *from the desktop* uploading for drupal's image module is a definitely welcome addition for image.module.

congrats again Sam.

sam - if you're not interested in maintaining this or are unfamiliar with CVS, etc - I'd be certainly willing to open a contrib/ directory under the image branch to house this & maintain it.

(similar to what event has started to do with ical, etc).

Wow, what great module.

But I read on Bryght.com that one could use the XP publishing wizard too with your module. Is that correct ? Sounds like a friendly approach to my more inexperienced users.

In that case I was wondering how I could make a way for my users to download the appropriate registry entry to include my Drupal site as a "provider" (besides the default MSN Groups) in the XP Publishing Wizard.

I saw on gallery.menalto.com that a developer had made a module for dynamically providing the registry file for each user to download (see below). Is this something that could be included in your Gallery Remote module, or converted into an extra module for Drupal ?

class DownloadRegView extends GalleryView {
    /**
     * @see GalleryView::isImmediate()
     */
    function isImmediate() {
        return true;
    }

    /**
     * @see GalleryView::isImmediate()
     */
    function renderImmediate($status, $error) {
        global $gallery;

        // Get the domain name
        $urlgen = $gallery->getUrlGenerator();
        $domain = $urlgen->getCurrentDomain();

        // Get the name of the gallery
        list ($ret, $rootId) =
            GalleryCoreApi::getPluginParameter('module', 'core', 'id.rootAlbum');
        if ($ret->isError()) 
        {
            echo $ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__);
            return;
        }
        list ($ret, $root) = GalleryCoreApi::loadEntitiesById($rootId);
        if ($ret->isError()) 
        {
            echo $ret->wrap(__FILE__, __LINE__);
            return;
        }
        $title = $root->getTitle();

        // Setup the headers for the Registry file
        if (!headers_sent()) {
            header("Cache-control: private");
            header("Content-Type: application/octet-stream");
            header("Content-Disposition: filename=install_registry.reg");
        }

        // Build the registry file
        $lines[] = 'Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00';
        $lines[] = '';
        $lines[] = '[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\PublishingWizard\PublishingWizard\Providers\\g2_'.$domain.']';
        $lines[] = '"displayname"="'.$title.' at ['.$domain.']"';
        $lines[] = '"description"="Publish Your Photos and Movies to '.$title.'"';
        $params = array ();
        $params['view'] = 'publishxp:PublishXP';
        $lines[] = '"href"="'.$urlgen->generateUrl($params).'"';
        $lines[] = '"icon"="'.$urlgen->makeUrl('/favicon.ico').'"';
        echo join("\r\n", $lines);
        echo "\r\n";

        return GalleryStatus :: success();
    }
}

//Thomas/bohtho

@azote: as an aside - you can also use image_import module to bulk upload images.

The problem i was having was how i pointed the java client to my site. I don't use 'clean URLs' so i had to add the '/?q=' at the end of the URL for it to find the 'gallery_remote2.php' entry. Thanks.

From the lack of response I have been under the assumption that this just isn't possible, but I hope I'm wrong. I even posted something on samr7's drupal site but there is no response there either. I still believe it has to do with passing a user name and password which might not be possible with the applet.

It works pretty well for me, read/write, and adding "folders" through GR actually extends the taxonomy associated with the image gallery. Your problem may be the URL you're accessing. The documentation for image_pub says:

To use a Gallery Remote client, configure the client with the URL of your Drupal root directory. With luck, it will attempt to access the gallery_remote2.php entry point, for which this module registers a virtual handler.

(Emphasis added.)

So, if your Drupal site is accessible at http://www.example.com/, that is the address you should give GR. Don't tell GR to hit gallery_remote2.php specifically. That is one of the addresses it will try automatically.

If you get an error message that claims GR can't find gallery_remote2.php, it may not mean what you think. GR and the module don't always communicate well, and any error seems to be interpreted that way by GR.

I am able to create folders (extending the taxonomy) but GR throws the "Error: Server contacted, but Gallery not found at this url" message every time, even though the transaction succeeded.

now it works fine

I get a forbidden error when trying to download the attachment.

http://drupal.org/node/23645#comment-76378
Ill repeat..

Has anyone gotten the gallery remote APPLET to work correctly with this instead of being stuck in read only mode?
i know the stand alone gallery remote is working for some but i mean when you embed in a site as I have at
http://thefractal.org/node/197

lets get it working...

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Does this work with drupal5?