Bohatir Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 I am a complete idiot in PHP, I dont know anything!!!! But I want to have a PHP photo Album. Can someone write me a tep by step tut on what to upload into what folder, and what to write, and how to setup a simple album. I want an album that shows thumbnails, and then if people want a bigger full size pic, they can click on the thumbnail. AGAIN dont assume I know naything, because I dont. I have tried installing JALBUM by my self, i think I blew up China in the process. PLEASEEEE!!! i am desperate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Rob Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 So that's what that bang was. I use Gallery myself. It has a good set of instructions with it and I think we may have something laying around here as a guide as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Gallery setup instructions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
porky Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 simple php photo album script just put php file to a folder with pictures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Welcome to the forums porky. Nice script. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wampthing Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Cool script porky. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Welcome to the forums porky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted April 29, 2006 Share Posted April 29, 2006 Welcome to the forum, porky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-JimE Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Welcome to the forums Porky, I would also suggest gallery. Any problems, give us a shout! JimE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Welcome to the forums, Porky! Bohatir, You should check out the Image Gallery scripts provided by Fantastico. Gallery is included, as are Coppermine (what I use), and 4Images Gallery. Each of these are one-click installs, and one-click uninstalls, so they are very easy to try out to see if you like them. Just a thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I've never been able to add a photo album to my site cause I never understood how to do it, but I've been following the detailed instructions for downloading Gallery and was doing quite well until I got to a page on the Configuration script that's looking for a path to store my photos. It says they recomend you store them in a directory that isn't accessible to the web. It showed a Directory path and since I didn't know what they were talking about, I figured I'd just use what was typed in but the next page gave me error messages saying the directory didn't exist. Now I need to figure out how to set up a directory to store my photos and I'm not sure if that was included in your directions. Everything on the error page sounds Greek to me. I hope it's ok to copy and paste what this storage page is telling me to do. If I shouldn't have copied it, I'm sorry and you can delete it. Gallery needs a directory to store your images. The directory we chose for you will work, but its location or current name does not provide maximum security. Either select a new directory outside of the document root directory or add a random string to the end of the directory name (e.g. g2data_fd74f557db). If someone could explain in simple form what I need to do, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks. Sheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 This means you need to create a folder (g2) outside the public_html directory then when gallery setup asks for the path enter "/home/cpanelusername/g2" (without the quotes). NOTE: Replace cpanelusername with yours and g2 can be what they tell you to or anything you want, just as long the name is the same as in the g2 part above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 This means you need to create a folder (g2) outside the public_html directory then when gallery setup asks for the path enter "/home/cpanelusername/g2" (without the quotes). NOTE: Replace cpanelusername with yours and g2 can be what they tell you to or anything you want, just as long the name is the same as in the g2 part above. I created a directory called g2 and typed the path like you showed me but now I have an error that says this is a read only. Either I'm not understanding something or I'm doing something wrong. Sheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Change the permissions of the folder "g2" to 777 and that error will go away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Its probably just a permission problem (which I forgot, sorry). Through either a ftp program or cpanels filemanager, please navigate to the g2 folder just created and then set the permission for this folder to 777. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I created a directory called g2 and typed the path like you showed me but now I have an error that says this is a read only.Either I'm not understanding something or I'm doing something wrong. Sheryl That worked Bruce but now I'm stumped on the next page. BTW, the instructions for setting up Gallery seem to be different from the actual steps. I wonder if the instructions need to be updated. From the Configuration on, is entirely different from the instructions I'm trying to follow. In any event, the next page is asking me set up a Data base. Of course I don't know how to do that. This is what it's looking for: Database type: MySQL (all versions) DB Hostname: DB Username: DB Password: DB Name: Table Prefix: Column Prefix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 More than likely the instructions are old. They are for version 1.x of Gallery and not 2.x But these variables are the same for most scripts that use a database DB Hostname: localhost DB Username: your-cpanel-name_user-name-for-database DB Password: password for database user DB Name: your-cpanel-name_database-name Table Prefix: default value Column Prefix default value Gallery2 Installation Instructions Gallery2 can also be installed with Fantastico in cPanel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I think this is getting way over my head. If I understand your instructions, I'm suppose to put my cpanel name on 2 different lines? The DB Username line and DB Name? I tried doing that and came up with another error saying they couldn't connect to the database information provided and another error message that said localhost: Access denied for user 'My cpanel name'@'localhost' to database 'mycpanel name' I've never set up a data base so maybe there was something else I had to do first? Sheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Yes, you need to set up the database. But you could also follow Bruces suggestion to set up a gallery through fantastico in your cpanel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I would recommend scrapping the installation and install it using Fantastico. There you only need to tell it what folder you want to put it in and set an administrative user and password. It will install and configure everything. If you wish to proceed manually you need to create a database using the MySQL database function. You will also need to create a user to use with that database and add that user to the database. If you named the database "gallery" and your cpanel name were "sheryl" your database config name would be "sheryl_gallery". If you created a user named "sheryl" the database user name would be "sheryl_sheryl" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Thanks for your patience with me. As you can probably tell, I really have no clue what I'm doing so I'm lost unless everything is spelled out. I did try doing a search after I posted my last question on databases and realized I needed to set one up using SQL. I still may do that because if I ever figure out how to install this photo album program, I'd also like to try and figure out how to install a message board. It looks as if I need a database for that too. I think I will scrap this and try installing it using Fantastico. Hopefully that will be easier but getting back to this database, I would like to understand how to set that up. Is there a tutorial on it or can you answer a couple questions for me like, 1. In the case of setting up a photo album, do you suggest adding a different name then my cpanel name? 2.Would Current user and password be my cpanel name and password? 3.Do you suggest changing anything under priviledges? 4. And do I have to put something in the space for access host? If so, what would I put? Sheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Database movie tutorial Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 1. I don't use my cpanel login name for anything other than cpanel. If I create a database I create a user for the database. 2. No, you would create a user (example: user name you add is gallery, the name used in the configuration file will be your-cpanel-name_gallery) 3. Privileges should be ALL 4. No, you don't enter anything into access hosts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 Thanks for the link to the movie on setting up a database. I decided to try it since I had gotten this far and really wanted to try and figure this all out. Also, because to tell you the truth, I got confused with Fantastico and instead of asking what was probably a stupid question, I figured I'd see if I could finish what I started and I did, but now I'm stumped on how to configure ImageMagick which is the graphics module your tutorial recommended. It says I have to install the ImageMagick binaries on my server, then enter the path in the box below. The box starts off like this /usr/bin/ and I don't know if I'm suppose to keep that, change that, or add to it. I also don't know how or where to install the ImageMagick binaries. Would you be able to help me with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 The path should be /usr/local/bin The ImageMagick libraries are already installed on the servers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 The path should be /usr/local/bin The ImageMagick libraries are already installed on the servers. OK, thanks. And thanks for all your help. Sheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 27, 2007 Share Posted January 27, 2007 I just thought I'd tell you I have successfully installed the photo album. Again, thanks for all your help. Now I think I'll look into adding a message board. Is there a tutorial for that too? I wasn't having much luck finding a tutorial but maybe I wasn't looking in the right place. Sheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 You could try the one in cpanels fantastico SMF just a few mouse clicks, answer a few questions like folder, user and pass word and done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheryltoo Posted January 28, 2007 Share Posted January 28, 2007 Thanks for the suggestion about the message board. I successfully installed it on my site using Fantastico after I watched the movie tutorial on how to use Fantastico. Everything is starting to make more sense now that I've installed these two programs. Sheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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