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[Usurper]

Seriously, nobody notices updates to the gallery.  My board doesn't have a ton of forums, so it wouldn't be bad to have the option to see the gallery categories on the same page as the forum categories.

[XanthicBB]

     If there's one feature suggestion I support, it's this one.

TheWalrus said it best in a prior post:

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I'd like to see the "Galleries" be able to be included in the forum index (that is, the pane at the top of the Galleries page).  Clicking on the "Galleries" category in the forum index would take you to the Gallery page.

Also, the Gallery statistics should be integrated into the statistics at the bottom of the forum index page.

On the Gallery page, the Gallery statistics should be moved to after the Last 5 panes.

Basically, the Gallery should look and act as much like a forum except that Topics are albums.  Viewing an Album should be like viewing a Topic except that the contents of the Topic is a paged set of thumbnails with paged comments following.

The Album view should have Thumbnails (default) and Images modes (like the Topic View has Outline, Standard, and Linear+ modes).  In Images mode, the images would be full size one to a page, with paged comments following.  In Thumbnails mode, the top of the page would be a set of paged thumbnails (number of columns/rows configurable by admin) with all comments (paged) for any image in the album shown after the thumbnails (including comments on the whole album) with most recent comment first or last (configurable by admin).

Basically, I want the Gallery to feel like a completely integrated entity inside IPB rather than a separate entity that is gotten to only by the Gallery link in the header (I'd remove this link if that were the case).

Categories would be more like shared albums where the administrator would set up who is allowed to post images to the Category.  In fact, I would get rid of the specific notion of Category as it exists now and just have Albums that can be in Gallery Categories (like Forum Categories) including Root Categories that reside inside the Galleries Root Forum Category (that appears in the Forum Index).

If you do this, please make the Admin interface as similar to the IPB interface for Forums.  That is, in New Fourms, allow the creation of a Galleries Root Category.  Then in the New Galleries allow the creation of Gallery Categories that are very similar to creating Forums (same user interface).  Permissions should be handled just like IPB for posting/moderating to forums.  Moderation for albums should be like moderation for posts (with Inline moderation).  All other operations should be handled like topics (like New Image instead of New Topic and Add Comment instead of Add Reply, etc).

This would make me very happy.  There are just too many polished Gallery scripts out there that are better than IP Gallery except that they are not integrated into IPB.  The better the IPB integration, the more IP Gallery will appeal to me to be used on all my future websites where I need a community gallery.

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One more addition. 

Don't necessarily segregate the Gallery Root Category on the Forum Index to one category.  Rather, just allow Gallery Categories to be created just like Forums and placed in any Forum Category or Forum that you want.

This goes along with the notion that the current Gallery Categories are really just a type of Forum that can contain Albums/Forums/Gallery Categories as needed.

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[goodfella_uk]

How do you move the "Recent Gallery Images" include on your Board Index...

I don't want it at the top.

Do anyone know what template and code it is?

[bfarber]

It's a hook, so you'd have to put the ACP into IN_DEV at the moment to change the hook location.  We hope to improve this functionality in the future.

[goodfella_uk]

Ok, thanks for your reply...

IN_DEV is a new one to me, how do I do that?

Andy

[tranceandy]

Change the line in your conf_global.php file from

define('IN_DEV', 0);

to:

define('IN_DEV', 1);

Don't forget to change it back after you've finished

[goodfella_uk]

Cheers Andy Mate!

What does this actually do then?

[DawPi]

Andy D, on 28 June 2009 - 12:37 PM, said:

Change the line in your conf_global.php file from

define('IN_DEV', 0);

to:

define('IN_DEV', 1);

Don't forget to change it back after you've finished

initdata.php.

[Lewis P]

DawPi, on 28 June 2009 - 03:48 PM, said:

initdata.php.

The line was moved to conf_global.php in IPB3.

[Axel Wers]

That is cool

I switched Look Location

from

(outer.pre) Before the foreach loop stars)

to

(inner.pre) After the foreach loop starts

and I got:

Fatal error: Class 'skin_boards_1' not found in /ipb3/admin/sources/classes/output/publicOutput.php(2826) : eval()'d code on line 1

Although I switched it back I still get this error message (recache skins didn't work). Forum is totally broken.

[Alex K.]

Send a ticket to support and they'll be able to help you fix it.

[Axel Wers]

I removed define('IN_DEV', 1); from conf_global.php and it's ok already. But Recent gallery photos disappeared from my board.
I uninstalled that hook and it's disappeared from ACP as well. How can I reinstall gallery hook?

[bfarber]

You just reimport the XML hook file from the manage hooks page.  The file is under admin/applications_addon/ips/gallery/xml/hooks

You won't be able to run your board with IN_DEV enabled without doing some other things, but you'll need to enable it to move hooks for now. We want to change this in a future version to make it easier to move hooks.

[Axel Wers]

Thanks Brandon

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We want to change this in a future version to make it easier to move hooks.

This would be good.