I can try. Bear in mind I may forget a step, but you should be able to figure it out from there.
1. Log into coppermine gallery as an admin
2. Click on "users" from the admin menu
3. Click "new user"
4. Give the new user a funny name... this is important.
Important note: There is a difference between funny and offensive. I would strongly suggest the former over the latter. Examples of funny names would be like:
Balzack Blisterfrog
Tuggmabellz Fugnutter
Licquema Svettynutz
I.P. Daily
Etc.
Offensive user names are like offensive passwords. They have a habit of being revealed at the worst times.
5. Assign the user whatever for a password since you will never use it again.
Now repeat the above steps 3-5 once for each PHPBB user you have adding photos. Step 4 will be the most challenging as coming up with funny names is not as easy as it seems. Alternatively you could go with the names of the seven dwarfs if you could remember them and if you have less than 8 users to add.
Good luck
Baron Von Flatulator
( I appologize if anyone reading this actually has one of those names. I mean, I am really really sorry if you have one of those names)
First, I want to thank vuud for an incredible add on to Coppermine!
My Coppermine 1.3.5 is bridged with phpbb 2.0.18.
I have a bunch of users in my phpbb forum (about 100) and thought this 'make up some fake users in the Coppermine database' was just too much work for me (lazyness is the mother of most of my coding), so I thought take this as a 'hint' by vuud to what may be a minimal change to the code to allow it to work with the PHPBB database.
First (and this is important), I have both my coppermine and my phpbb data in the same mysql database. My phpbb database has a phpbb prefix (i.e. phpbb_). This is important to allow this 'hack' to work!
I made some rather simple-minded changes to cpmfetch_dao.php in an attempt to get CpmFetch 1.6.2 to work with PHPBB 2.0.18.
Note, at this time, I'm using Coppermine version 1.3.5. I have NOT tested this yet with Coppermine 1.4.2.
I haven't done any significant testing, but it seems to work and cftest.php works too.
open cpmfetch.dao.php and find line:
$this->sqlPictureSourceSelect = " " . $database_table_prefix . "pictures as p, " . $database_table_prefix . "albums as a, "
. $database_table_prefix . "users AS u ";
change it to the following:
$this->sqlPictureSourceSelect = " " . $database_table_prefix . "pictures as p, " . $database_table_prefix . "albums as a, "
. $database_table_prefix . "users AS u , phpbb_users AS phpbb ";
note! If your phpbb database tables have a different prefix than 'phpbb_' then change the phpbb_users as needed to use the same prefix as your phpbb database tables use.
THEN, find every occurance of u.user_id and change it to phpbb.user_id
Save cpmfetch_dao.php and then try cftest.php.
If you get a chance to try this with Coppermine 1.4.2 bridge with PHPBB 2.0.18 and it works ok, I'd appreciate someone letting me know. If I get a chance to upgrade to cpg 1.4.2 myself, I'll let you know.