General questions about Gallery2 - incorporating into my website

groucho

Joined: 2006-02-01
Posts: 14
Posted: Tue, 2006-02-07 02:39

I'm a complete newbie to Gallery2 and PHP. But I have worked on client server and a number of web applications. I have some general questions about Gallery2.

First, some details of where I am at. I have completed the initial install of Gallery2 (2.1.0) using:

mysql Ver 12.22 Distrib 4.0.16

PHP 4.4.1

I would like to customize the remaining modules in the install. Where do I obtain all of the binaries mentioned in various FAQ files? I assume the binaries can be in any folder, not just /user/local/bin?

I want to incorporate my club's pictures into Gallery2 and give everyone in our club access to Gallery2 without logging in. I assume I can do this. How do I turned off any login requirements for visitors?

I would like to incorporate Gallery2 into my website as seemlessly as possible. What's is the easiest way to incorporate Gallery 2 into my website? Do you suggest following the HTML wrap instructions? (Keep in mind, I don't know PHP syntax, etc.) I've seen sample websites. Are there examples that show the code changes and how they look on the webpage?

Thank you for your help and time.

Ken
 
valiant

Joined: 2003-01-04
Posts: 32509
Posted: Tue, 2006-02-07 07:25

@binaries:
at the end of the document:
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:How_do_I_Install_Gallery2#Installing_Modules_with_External_Dependencies
of course the binaries can be installed anywhere.

@login requirements:
change the appropriate permissions. if you want all your guests to view all photos without requiring to log in, it's already by default like that. the everybody group has "view item, view resizes and view full-size" permissions.

@integration:
depends. integrating only visually or also functionally?
see:
http://codex.gallery2.org/index.php/Gallery2:Embedding
 
groucho

Joined: 2006-02-01
Posts: 14
Posted: Wed, 2006-02-08 02:49

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction on the binaries.

And it is good to know all my users will not have to "log in" to see the albums.

As far as integration goes, I think I want integrate visually. I'll go over the instructions you pointed out to see how that is done by changing the templates.

Once again, thanks for the help. I appreciate your time. And I'm impressed by this open source effort.

Ken