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[pegro]

Hello experts! :-)

I have recently implemented the Etomite 0.6.1 on my server and is keen to get a gallery on my HP.
EtoGal seemed like the obvious candidate for the job, and looked easy to install.
I have created a snippet and copied the EtoGal.txt code and saved it as EtoGal.
I then created a library under 'assets' called 'galleries' with chmod 777.
Next I created a document in CSM and a child page that calls [[EtoGal]].

Now I would expect to get the "Manage Pictures" botton when logged on CSM, however this is not the case!
No entry is made in the MySQL database, and no 'ID' directory is created in the 'galleries'-folder.

I suspect it to be access restrictions, but no error message is generated!?

Anyone have an idea of what I could try? Pls - I'm gettin' deperate!!

Thanx,
Pete

[pegro]

... btw - I'm using:
PHP ver. 4.4.1
MySQL ver. 4.0.24.

[mikef]

If you are not logged in as a user (not using the manager interface) you won't see the Manage button, because normal users don't have the right to manage (add edit delete pictures). You need to add a snippet that allows you to login/out. See the post I've just made for Cathode's thread, and ask if anything still isn't clear. (your versions of PHP and MySQL should be fne)

[pegro]

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Now I would expect to get the "Manage Pictures" botton when logged on CSM, however this is not the case!

As I wrote, I am already logged on the Etomite CSM through www.hostname.dk/manager as admin when entering the page containing a call to [[EtoGal]]. But you say I need a snippet beside the EtoGal to log in/out? If this is the case, I missed that part during installation...

/Pete

[mikef]

pegro, on Apr 21 2006, 12:03 PM, said:

As I wrote, I am already logged on the Etomite CSM through www.hostname.dk/manager as admin when entering the page containing a call to [[EtoGal]]. But you say I need a snippet beside the EtoGal to log in/out? If this is the case, I missed that part during installation...

/Pete

Yes, you need to login separately on the user website. Logging into the manager only gives you access to the manaager functions since Etomite 0.6.1RC3. This is mentioned in the documentation post (I've now made it larger so others don't miss it!) and more detailed instructions are in the reply to Cathode at http://www.etomite.com/index.php?showtopic=4845

Apologies for the inconvenience.

[pegro]

*Ding*
It works!! I can't beleive I ignores the login/out snippet. Guess I was too focused on having logged in to the manager being sufficient!
Now I know what to do in my weekend!!

Thanx a lot, mike, excellent support and super fast response!!

Cheers,
Pete

[mikef]

Glad you've got it working!

If you're making the login page public, you might like to look at the newer 'authenticate_visitor' snippet as a replacement to EtomiteLoginOut, as it adds Captcha codes.

[crispi]

I'm getting VERY FRUSTRATED with this thing and your documentation does not help at all.

The Manage Pictures button only shows up if I use the EtoGal snippet. When I try to use the EtoGalGallery snippet there is no button.

Can you please tell me if I just replace the EtoGal snippet with EtoGalGallery?? I am also completely at a loss as to how to organize the structure of my pictures.

What I want is this:

Portfolio section
- category 1
--> pic 1
--> pic 2
--> pic 3

category 2
--> pic 1
--> pic 2
--> pic 3

Do I just put a [[EtoGal]] snippet in Category 1 and Category 2? And then have a separate admin page that has two calls to authenticate_visitor snippet, one for Category 1 and one for Category 2?

Then where do I use EtoGalGallery?

[crispi]

Gah, I just found your other posts.

Nevermind. I'll figure it out.

[mikef]

Sorry, I've not been around as much as usual of late - I'm busy preparing for an exhibition, trying to get 4 different websites off the ground (all involving artists, so nothing is simple), and coping with the heat Dean's been complaining of as well.

The only snippet that does any admin is Etogal itself, all the others are extras. I use Etogal purely for admin (operating with display=none as a parameter) if the page holding the gallery is visible.

If you look at Portfolios on the RogueGene site, and pretend the biographies aren't there, then the galleries underneath each artist are the same as what I think you want for your categories (apart from some extra functionality not yet in the released etogalgallery). Each of these gallery pages consists of

[[getArtist]]
<div>
[[EtoGal?display=none]]
[[EGGXpaged]]
</div>

Where getArtist is specific to this requirement, EtoGal is the version available here, and 'EGGXpaged' is an 'eXperimental' version of EtoGalGGallery that also handles paging. It works in this environment, and has been out with a couple of beta testers for a while (still waiting for a response from them), but definitely has some rough edges that need to be fixed.

Hope this helps a little!