Hi.
I'm in the process of immigrating from our old and kind of messy phpBB3 "Gallery v1" to the nice looking Coppermine.
I have gone the long way of downloading all gallery files to my computer (about 5 000), and sorted them into a folder structure I feel would fit a new and tidy gallery.
Now I "just" want to upload the files to a corresponding category and album structure in Coppermine.
My Coppermine is bridged with phpBB3.
The unsuspected problem I have stumbled over is in the administration of personal galleries...
This is one of the main features I like with Coppermine, and the plan is to insert a link in every phpBB-members profile to his/her personal album.
It never stroke me that I as a founder/administrator wouldn't have access to create and manage users albums?...
I have now found the Dev-Team thread where the matter was discussed, so I'm aware that this is intended.
So...
I found a tweak from "Abbas Ali" in an old thread from 2006 how to change albmgr.php and upload.php, but this seem to just partly work.
I can see my phpBB user's list in my batch upload, but upload ends with a "Empty Album" failure.
Moving albums from a public category also fail, as owner does not change, and the result is a non-visible file...
Only way I have found so far, is a really long and winding road editing both albums and files one by one directly in the database...
I have found a comment from GauGau saying
Workaround is to batch-add your files to a public album and then batch-move the pics from there to the personal album, which is pretty straightforward.
But I haven't been able to figure it out...
Thought I found a thread with a batch-move tweak, but I haven't been able to find it again...
Sorry if I have missed something obvious, besides that this isn't a feature of Coppermine...
I also found some old profile-albums from members that no longer resist in the phpBB database.
Them to should have been in the members gallery, but I don't know how to manage that?.. -They could get a public album of course, but that's not what I intended..
I actually can't really see how I could use the Coppermine gallery at all if I cant transport them old pictures to their categories?
Letting old members that is no longer active do it is obviously no object!...
I would really hate letting our Coppermine-project go and start over from scratch trying to find as nice gallery for our community!
Not at least when I already have spent tons of hours learning, searching, setting it up and growing to like it!...
All help is deeply appreciated!
Regards
/orre
Ps.
I have found the "Mass Import" plugin and was hoping to use that when I know things will work.
Ds.
Coppermine install:
http://www.vtxriders.se/gallerian/Bridging app install:
http://www.vtxriders.se/forum/Coppermine version: cpg1.5.16
Bridging app version: phpBB3
Test user account: testuser / testuser
BridgeManager settings:
Bridge app URL:
http://www.vtxriders.se/forum/Relative path to your bridge app's config file: ../forum/
Cookie name or prefix: cpg15x
Use bridge app custom groups?: 1