Switching away from gallery2

[AdamC]

Hi all,

I'm toying with the idea of replacing gallery2 on my main site (http://adamcurrey.com) with something a bit more 'pro' looking to suit its intended function as an online portfolio of my best work. I quite like the Simpleviewer stuff that Lightroom produces, but it doesn't have any support for nesting albums, and I don't particularly feel like writing a front page from scratch to tie them all together. So, any suggestions? Is there something else around that's simple, elegant, and supports sub-albums?

[::John::]

I use exhibitEngine (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=93) (Pekka wrote it - it's not that easy to set up - but works pretty well)

[AdamC]

There's an option I hadn't considered. I'll have a look, thanks.

[linarms]

You already know what I suggest ;)

[AcidLotus]

Good question! I'm interested in the answers as well.

[AdamC]

You already know what I suggest ;)


Yup :) That will have to wait for the necessary funding. Right now I'm looking for $0 alternatives.

[AdamC]

Alrighty. Got EE 2.02 running. Now to see if I can bend it to my will! :mrgreen:

[wocka]

Adam,

I have just set-up Lightroom Galleries Complete 2.5.5 http://www.lightroomgalleries.com/site-news/lrg-complete-256-released/ ( they have just released 2.5.6 ).

Runs straight out of Lightroom, has Paypal + other payment integration. Menu offerings etc. Multiple gappery passwords etc.

Check it out, highly recommend if even though I haven't used any of the payment stuff.

Cheers Wocka

[AdamC]

Adam,

I have just set-up Lightroom Galleries Complete 2.5.5 http://www.lightroomgalleries.com/site-news/lrg-complete-256-released/ ( they have just released 2.5.6 ).


Wow, I didn't know that existed. This could be exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

[AdamC]

Adam,

I have just set-up Lightroom Galleries Complete 2.5.5 http://www.lightroomgalleries.com/site-news/lrg-complete-256-released/ ( they have just released 2.5.6 ).

Runs straight out of Lightroom, has Paypal + other payment integration. Menu offerings etc. Multiple gappery passwords etc.

Check it out, highly recommend if even though I haven't used any of the payment stuff.

Cheers Wocka


How did you go setting it up Wocka? I'm finding it confusing as hell. Looks promising.. but argh >:(

[wocka]

Hi Adam,

I use only the Gallery part and incorporated it into my own website.
The 2 modules I use are:
LRG Complete - Shell RC2.5.5
This created the look of the gallery section of the website eg Header, Footer, Colours etc. I turned off all the Paypal stuff as I didn't wan't or need it at the moment.

LRG Complete - Gallery RC2.5.5
This is where your images them selves are created and the look and feel.

The nice thing is LR gives a preview of what it will look like.

The 2 bigest issues I found was the folder structure layout on your website and how to get the default gallery to load.

Structure:
www.domainname.com
- > Gallery [folder] - All the php files go here for the gallery software

- > - > 001-Library [sub-folder]
- > - > - > 001-Most Interesting [sub-sub-folder] - The image files and 5 php gallery files go here.

- > - > 002-Landscape [sub-folder]

- > - > 003-Panorama [sub-folder]
- > - > - > 001-Panorama [sub-sub-folder]


The numbers aren't shown in the menu, but indicate where you want that item to appear.

Default Gallery:
To set the default gallery to be displayed you need to edit the shelldata.xml, specifically the item defaultSectionPath="" place in the folder structure you require.

Cheers

[AdamC]

Thanks for that, I'll have another go. The documentation is pretty disorganised and hard to follow.