General Support: How to disable the collection concept? i need only albums and Pictures?

Hi,

Please let me know...

How to disable the collection concept? i need only albums and Pictures? is it Possible...

Thanks in advance :-0

the way i did it was to go to gallery.php and in the_gallery change the $use_file=collections.php to collection.php then in plog-functions.php in plogger_init change the else condition from

else {
plogger_init_collections(array(
'from' => $from,
'limit' => $lim,
'sortby' => !empty($config['collection_sortby']) ? $config['collection_sortby'] : 'id',
'sortdir' => !empty($config['collection_sortdir']) ? $config['collection_sortdir'] : 'DESC'));*/


======
to

plogger_init_albums(array(
'from' => $from,
'limit' => $lim,
'collection_id' => DEFAULT_COLLECTION,
'sortby' => !empty($config['album_sortby']) ? $config['album_sortby'] : 'id',
'sortdir' => !empty($config['album_sortdir']) ? $config['album_sortdir'] : 'DESC'));
}

where DEFAULT_COLLECTION is the collection_id of the base collection. If you want to use the default collection that comes with plogger then you can use collection id = 1;

that is all.

this seems to work. However, I am not sure if this breaks anything else so use this at your own risk.

hope this helps

Please help:
I've been trying to jump-to either collection (name of collection) or slite-show view. I've been tracking those who enter the site and most don't seem to have the where-with-all to figure out they need to click through to collection and then the one collection I have to get to my photo's .


With help from Plogger, I've embedded <?php the_gallery(); ?> within my gallery page. I tried your solution and it didn't work (I'm guessing either because I've done something wrong and/or the modifications done mean a different solution.

the first line on my gallery page named: http://mysite.com/gallery/index.php is this line: <?php include("gallery.php"); ?>

here's the html from "gallery.php"
<?php
#error_reporting(E_ALL);
include("plog-globals.php");
include_once("plog-load_config.php");
include_once("plog-functions.php");

global $config;

// process path here - is set if mod_rewrite is in use
if (!empty($_REQUEST["path"])) {
// the followling line calculates the path in the album and excludes any subdirectories if
// Plogger is installed in one
$path = join("/",array_diff(explode("/",$_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]),explode("/",$_SERVER["PHP_SELF"])));
$resolved_path = resolve_path($path);
if (is_array($resolved_path)) {
$_GET["level"] = $resolved_path["level"];
$_GET["id"] = $resolved_path["id"];
if (isset($resolved_path['mode'])) {
$_GET['mode'] = $resolved_path['mode'];
};

// get page number from url, if present
$parts = parse_url($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"]);
if (isset($parts["query"])) {
parse_str($parts["query"],$query_parts);
if (!empty($query_parts["plog_page"])) $_GET["plog_page"] = $query_parts["plog_page"];
};
$path = $parts["path"];
};
};

// Set sorting session variables if they are passed
if (isset($_GET['sortby'])) {
$_SESSION['plogger_sortby'] = $_GET['sortby'];
};

if (isset($_GET['sortdir'])) {
$_SESSION['plogger_sortdir'] = $_GET['sortdir'];
};

// The three GET parameters that it accepts are
// $level = "collection", "album", or "picture"
// $id = id number of collection, album, or picture
// $n = starting element (for pagination) go from n to n + max_thumbs (in global config)

// use plogger specific variables to avoid name clashes if Plogger is embedded



$GLOBALS['plogger_level'] = isset($_GET["level"]) ? $_GET["level"] : '';
$GLOBALS['plogger_id'] = isset($_GET["id"]) ? intval($_GET["id"]) : 0;
$GLOBALS['plogger_mode'] = isset($_GET["mode"]) ? $_GET["mode"] : '';

$allowed_levels = array('collections','collection','album','picture','search');
if (!in_array($GLOBALS['plogger_level'],$allowed_levels)) {
$GLOBALS['plogger_level'] = 'collections';
};

// niisiis, mul on need 2 funktsiooni ja ma pean need mergema
// vana mingi teise failiga, et ma saaks plogger korrektselt integreerida
// noh, proovime siis.

define('THEME_DIR', dirname(__FILE__) . '/themes/' . $config['theme_dir']);
define('THEME_URL', $config['theme_url']);

function the_gallery_head() {
plogger_head();

$use_file = 'head.php';
if (file_exists(THEME_DIR . "/" . $use_file)) {
include(THEME_DIR . "/" . $use_file);
} else {
include(dirname(__FILE__).'/themes/default/'.$use_file);
}
}

function the_gallery(){
// collections mode (show all albums within a collection)
// it's the default
$use_file = "collections.php";
if ($GLOBALS['plogger_level'] == "picture"){
$use_file = 'picture.php';
}
elseif ($GLOBALS['plogger_level'] == "search"){
if ($GLOBALS['plogger_mode'] == "slideshow") {
$use_file = 'slideshow.php';
} else {
$use_file = 'search.php';
};
}
elseif ($GLOBALS['plogger_level'] == "album") {
// Album level display mode (display all pictures within album)
if ($GLOBALS['plogger_mode'] == "slideshow") {
$use_file = 'slideshow.php';
} else {
$use_file = 'album.php';
};
}
else if ($GLOBALS['plogger_level'] == "collection") {
$use_file = 'collection.php';
};

// if the theme does not have the requested file, then use the one from the default template
if (file_exists(THEME_DIR . "/" . $use_file)) {
include(THEME_DIR . "/" . $use_file);
} else {
include(dirname(__FILE__).'/themes/default/'.$use_file);
}
}
?>

sidtheduck's post is good but needs two corrections in step three.

1. strpos(haystack, needle)
2. When you first visit the page, it reads "ections"

Step three, open 'plog-functions.php'.
Find:

default:
$breadcrumbs = ' <b>Collections</b>';
break;
}

return '<div id="breadcrumb_links">'.$breadcrumbs.'</div>';


Change to:

default:
//code from case 'collection' and changing $id
$row = get_collection_by_id(1); //where 1 equals the id of the collection you want to display
$breadcrumbs = ' <a accesskey="/" href="'.$config["baseurl"].'">Collections</a> &raquo; <b>' . SmartStripSlashes($row["name"]) . '</b>';
if ($GLOBALS['plogger_mode'] == "slideshow") $breadcrumbs .= ' &raquo; Slideshow';
break;
}

return '<div id="breadcrumb_links">' . substr($breadcrumbs, strpos($breadcrumbs, "&raquo;")+8) . '</div>';


If you don't want there to be duplicate code, I believe you can actually delete the 'collection' case after this change.

Hi,

I tried your steps and unfortunately they didn't work for me. On the gallery page it says "No pictures in this collection!" and in the backend it throws warning

"Warning: Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/sarahand/public_html/gallery/plog-functions.php:4482) in /home/sarahand/public_html/gallery/admin/plog-admin.php on line 29"

and refuses to show up anything! :(

I don't know whats going wrong! Please check the url http://www.sarahandmenachem.com/album.php

Please help!

Hello,

I have tried the above steps but I am now having a problem. It just says no pictures in this collection. At first I thought it was just I didn't have the right collection id but I have checked it an made sure I did any other suggestions?

Thanks

Hi All,

This is allmost exactly what i was looking for, only i need the disabling-hack to go one level further - to also disable albums (so that the user only sees the content of the default album).

Is there any way to make this possible?


Thanks

Nevermind - I didn't copy the close for the "break" at the end of the code that Douglas posted earlier.

default:
$row = get_collection_by_id(1);
$breadcrumbs = ' <a accesskey="/" href="'.$config["baseurl"].'">Collections</a> &raquo; <b>' . SmartStripSlashes($row["name"]) . '</b>';
if ($GLOBALS['plogger_mode'] == "slideshow") $breadcrumbs .= ' &raquo; Slideshow'; break;

Because I try to avoid mixing data with structure, here's my contribution to dynamically fetch the category ID rather than have to hardcode it (because the category ID will change if you ever delete it and add a new one):

// dynamically fetch the default category id
$result=run_query("SELECT id FROM ".TABLE_PREFIX."collections LIMIT 1");
$rowx=mysql_fetch_assoc($result);
$catid=$rowx['id'];